Saskatchewan has always been a famously prudish province. Probably the best example of this has been the laws surrounding exotic dancers, or strippers to use the more accurate term, which have always been very restrictive. While many other places in the world are totally fine with folks taking off their clothes for the entertainment of others, Saskatchewan itself has always regarded it with the level of shock and dismay that seems a bit overzealous.
Still, the laws have opened up in recent years, even if they are still relatively strict. At least, that's the case provincially, Saskatoon isn't backing down about their distaste for the act, and they have enacted the world's most passive-aggressive bylaw. In essence, if you want to book strippers, your business must be in an area zoned for heavy industrial. Since that's a terrible area in which to set up a club, there are no clubs that can host strippers. Since the other businesses in those areas are going to be in heavy industry - where it is an awful idea to take your top off - they are going to be extremely unlikely hosts to this particular brand of entertainment. Saskatoon has effectively driven strippers out of town by making it almost impossible for them to actually do their act.
Of course, some bar owners are upset, because that's a line of income they can no longer access. Same deal with the strippers themselves, who are planning to go off to more topless friendly climates. In all, while strippers will soon be allowed in Saskatchewan, Saskatoon is keeping them out, or at a bare minimum limiting to places where they can't actually strip. Maybe they hope the strippers will learn a trade while looking for a place to take their clothes off, for in wandering around heavy industrial areas it's entirely possible that they will find places hiring for more conventional employment. Perhaps their toned bodies will make it easy to transition into physical labor.
Personally, I'm not actually into strippers, to me it is a lot more depressing than entertaining. But that's me, and I register my distaste for that form of entertainment by not going to view any strippers. It's really the only way to handle it, voting with your eyes and your wallet. It should be up to the businesses and their patrons if they want to support that form of entertainment, and if they don't the strippers will go away anyway, riding off in the sunset to find other people who are willing to watch them take off their clothes.
The problem with Saskatoon's comically passive-aggressive approach is that it doesn't really confront any problems exotic dancing might bring. Worse yet, it shows that their administration is alarmingly distrusting of their own populace.
The ability to watch others take off their clothes has not caused a massive wave of societal decay in the rest of the world, there is no reason that Saskatoon will collapse because someone can potentially see a bare torso. If strippers start turning up in bars, there will be an initial surge of popularity due to curiosity, before it all settles down and it's just another component of life, one ignored by most people who aren't on a poorly planned bachelor party. If you don't want to see them, be like me, don't go.
