Apparently bikini waxing was always illegal in New Jersey, even though my home state has a higher than average number of Go-Go bars which decorate the state like mushrooms after a rainstorm. Because the Democrats destroyed New Jersey’s economy, these clubs are unfortunately also one of the best ways many women have to get ahead as it requires little investment and a high rate of return for time. The town where I attended college was a small town that had at least 20-30 bars in it, 25% of which were strip clubs. It also had very few small businesses and very little opportunity for residents to get good paying jobs.

Jersey Democrats don’t want people bringing in a few hundred bucks for a few hours work. They want people poor and completely dependent on the Democrats. That’s the reason Jersey tends to be so hard on the establishments and the women who work within.

If high taxes and and an atrocious crime rate in many of her cities didn’t make life difficult enough for dancers, New Jersey has insane rules governing these clubs which are only designed to take money out of the pockets of exotic dancers. Strippers in New Jersey aren’t allowed to be naked in strip bars unless the bar is alcohol free, for example.

Jersey is also one of the few states I’ve lived where there are blue laws that keep malls in some counties (Bergen) from being open on Sunday incidentally. And while Jersey is regulating legal adult entertainment and when residents will be allowed to shop, crime is out of control.

In 2007 ,the most recent year for which the New Jersey State Police have stats available, there were 71, 901 reported incidents of domestic violence (a decrease of 3%), 3006 Assaults on police officers, 783 bias attacks and 208 carjackings. New Jersey is home to literally dozens of violent gangs including MS-13, The Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and several outlaw biker gangs. I guess they’ve solved all those problems in the last two years, because they are cracking down on commercial bikini waxing after two women complained of getting sick after visiting a salon:

Jeff Lamm, a spokesman for New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs, said that the proposal would specifically ban genital waxing, and was prompted by complaints to the board from two women who were injured and hospitalized. One of them sued. Lamm said that the state only investigates infractions if consumers complain.

Two South Jersey hospitals and a handful of dermatologists didn’t return requests for comment, and another hospital declined.

Dr. Eric Bernstein, a Philadelphia dermatologist, said that genital waxing could irritate or tear the skin and result in infections.

“But you can get an infection from almost anything,” he added. “The state is probably just looking out for the residents’ best interest, but they’ll have to enforce it.”

Martino Cartier, owner of Martino Giovanni & Pileggi, in Washington Township, Gloucester County, claims that the state previously was more concerned with salons’ using the word “Brazilian” – connoting a full genital wax – than with the waxing itself.

At Cartier’s spa, Brazilian waxes are known as “summer waxes” and they go by “custom bikini” or “full bikini” in other salons. Semantics aside, Cartier said, the full genital waxings are popular, and his licensed aestheticians do dozens per week in the spring and summer.

“This is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard,” he said. “We’re all going to be losing a lot of money over this.”

One Camden County salon owner who asked not to be identified said that she offers the service but didn’t know it was illegal.

“If it’s illegal, then why do they teach it in schools?” she asked.

Because New Jersey is basically a communist state where technocrats make decisions that other technocrats never hear about and the people of New Jersey continue to sit back and take it..

So dancers, Hooters girls, the swimsuit models who do promotional work at clubs and all the other women who need to be waxed for their professions in a state that allows little opportunity to make as much money doing something else will take their business to another state or buy home waxing kits, thus ensuring salon employees lose money and jobs.  Nice work Jersey! First you create an environment of such limited opportunity that women wanting to get ahead financially have little choice but enter high traffic cash tip industries, then you try to regulate those out of existence.

Next home waxing kits will be be illegal, but I’m sure you’ll get those wax kits from dancers’ cold dead hands.