Are you a man who cares about animals, but thinks it is fine to treat women like one?
Then Caso Diablo is the place for you. The world’s first vegan strip club, in Portland, Oregon — a hippyish town in the US that prides itself as the most vegan-friendly in the country — serves up meat- and dairy-free chilli cheese fries, chocolate/strawberry cheesecake and mushroom burgers along with the naked women.
The owner, Johnny Diablo, describes himself as an “ethical vegan,” and claims that half of the dancers are vegetarian or vegan.
The place is sleazy, without even the veneer of a “gentlemen’s club”: Bar staff are topless, while the dancers take absolutely everything off and are instructed to sit on customers’ laps.
The naked women draw the men in, Diablo says, which, in turn, means they will learn to love vegan food.
Treating women like meat and eating it often go together, for example at one US-run chain that serves up burgers, chicken wings and steaks, as well as young waitresses wearing very little.
However, as the sex industry has proliferated in recent years, using women’s bodies to promote vegetarianism and veganism has become more commonplace.
The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is notorious for its misogynistic tactics.
PETA plans to launch a porn site, peta.xxx, later this year, much to the disgust of feminists.
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