For the past week or so I've been hearing about this story, over and over again:

A city ordinance bans complete nudity at all gentleman's clubs... The ordinance does give nudity exclusions for artistic displays which include dance, ballet and dramatic performances, so every Monday and Tuesday, the club encourages customers to sketch the models as they perform nude routines.

While ammusing, in the fact that they are such prudes in the United States, the art night at a strip club, part of the story is really not all that interesting. Broke artists, have been going that route for years. Not everyone can aford fancy models that aren't ugly as sin, or are so european that they don't belive in shaving (yes there's stories, no I don't want to discuss any further). So bringing a sketch pad to take advantage of the exceptionally fit girls bearing it all is really not that astounding of an idea.

In fact in Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, the lead character and his best friend would go to the strip club all the time to practice their human figure drawing. Funny part from that book, the best friend draws this girl who has a mole, the protaganist of the book being a doctor (well sort of... read the book : P ). Anyways the protaganist tells the girl with the mole that blondes have a 90% higher chance of getting skin cancer than brunettes. Two weeks later, they return to the bar with their sketch pads, and the girl has dyed her hair, to beat the odds, she tells them.

Disclaimer: I had to paraphrase that whole paragraph, because I did not feel like digging out my copy of the book. But that's the jist of it, so stop being a hater and just deal with it.