Booze authorities order clothing back on at St. Jerome's only peeler joint

 Montreal was once circled by a suburbs featuring brothels in the form of strip clubs but alas that supply is decreasing fast as booze authorities tear up licenses.
   The most recent to suffer is the Body Shop in St. Jerome, also once known as Bar Studio 378 and Sexy Hollywood.
  The bar lost the right to feature nudity and strippers in a court decision handed down by Jean Lepage and Yolaine Savignac on June 18, following three days of hearings at the start of the year.
   The decision to force everybody back into clothing at St. Jerome's only peeler joint was largely based on nine occasions in which dancers offered sexual services to undercover cops for pricing varying from $100 to $200 depending on the type of activity involved. (Seems expensive, who could afford that? - Chimples)
   Onetime owner Jean-Francois Lauzon (who had cocaine, grow-op and fake credit card-related prios) switched the name to Sexy Hollywood after purchasing it in October 2009.
    Cops found a stripper willing to sell them speed and watched on as a dancer smoked pot with a customer outside. In June the cops caught a dancer giving a hand job to a customer. Cops seized lube and condoms, etc.
   In June 2010 the joint changed its name to the Body Shop and later that fall, the cops returned and noticed that a light system had been put into place to warn dancers of police busts.
   Police noted that the ownership-management also had a hand in a massage parlour called Alexcellence Massage in Laval.  
   But cops found no links between biker gangs or any other such criminal networks and ownership. They also noted that they made many other visits - at least 9 - which revealed no sexual activity.
   Philippe Bollinne, a 43-year-old father of two, purchased the club in 2012 with money he earned from previous jobs as a doorman, security guard, car salesman, and a massage parlour.
  In March cops found a teen runaway with false ID working at the place.  And in late February Heidi Van Horny announced that she would have sex with 23 men in the bar in one day.
   Bollinne said that it wasn't clear whether she'd have sex with 23 men or give dances to 23 men and he dismissed it as a publicity stunt, as it never took place anyway.
   The booze authority didn't take these two events lightly and noted in the decision that they disapprove most of false declarations, sex acts, drug dealing or consumption, not-cooperating with police and presence of minors.
   It was pointed out that the Supreme Court struck down the prostitution prohibition but the judge noted that prostitution constitutes a disruption of peace, a phrase repeated a few times in the decision.
   Back when the club was an unabashed sex rodeo back around 2006, dancers were making up to $8,000 a week, not bad scratch for someone who might not have a lot of other employment possibilities.
   Anybody who reads such reports - and we've published a few spicy ones here on Coolopolis - might consider that the offences committed in the club seem pretty minor. The bar launched an unsuccessful appeal.
   But hey we live in an age when there's a lot of cops and not much crime, police have to do something with their time.
  Other clubs slammed with serious punishment in recent years for sex-related stuff include: Bar Terrasse (June 2012), Miss Hilltop (May 2012) Bar Le Ki Osk (Aug. 2012) Bar St. Thomas (May 2012) Bar Le Coin du Pecheur (Aug 2012) Bar Chez Diane (July 2013).