So, we sent our data crawling team on a thrilling quest to determine whether or not Portland really deserves the title of “strip club capital.” Neither side, as far as we can tell, has presented any quantifiable measurement to defend its stance.Īs resolute number crunchers, we’re always up for tackling life’s most important questions. Some, like TIME Magazine, have branded the claim as nothing more than an “old sexy wives tale ” others, like local blog Tits and Sass, have championed it as an irrefutable truth.
There are so many that the city’s residents have, for at least 20 years, vehemently maintained that they have “more strip clubs per capita than any municipality in America.” “We’re all about love and compassion.”Ĭasa Diablo is but one of a cornucopia of strip clubs that proliferate Portland.
“You’re not going to find any fur, feathers, wool, or silk, or any other animal products,” owner Johnny Diablo Zukle has said. In a fashion only befit for Portland, change is given solely in $2 bills. No surprise then, that Portland’s idolization of all things strange does not let up when it comes to strip clubs.Īmong the city’s nighteries is Casa Diablo, the “world’s first vegan gentleman’s club.” Here, customers can enjoy a hummus veggie wrap while watching performers shed their non-animal-based g-strings. It is a place where a human can, in the course of 24 hours, visit a museum of velvet paintings, join in on a World Naked Bike Ride, be serenaded by a unicycling bagpipe player, and get legally married at a doughnut shop. When it comes to self-imposed eccentricity, the city of Portland, Oregon has no equal. In Portland, club patrons “make it rain” with veggies Via Alicia J.