The Ames businessman who may bring a strip club to Campustown has every legal right to do so. But that doesn’t mean we have to like it.

Yet another strip club, or “juice bar” in an age of political correctness and moronic loopholes in state law, may well be the very last thing Ames and Iowa State University needs.

A local law enforcement official agrees.

“Juice bars are breeding ground for illegal activity,” Ames Police Chief Dennis Ballentine said. “I do not see any benefits from such a place.”

But Ballentine admits there are currently no legal obstacles that can block a strip club from setting up shop in the backyard of an institution that demands equality and blasts discrimination.

A strip club’s legal right to exist is clear, and that in itself may be good for a diverse society, but even today their are moral arguments to consider.

Strip clubs, no matter how eloquently their purposes can be validated by patrons and employees, degrade women and prey on a community’s youth. Because alcohol is not sold, patrons must only be 18 to enter.

As for college students, chiefly college-age men, it’s a safe assumption that the majority of Iowa State students would not frequent a Campustown strip club. Students do not want that kind of “entertainment,” and a strip club’s presence in Campustown may ultimately hurt reputable businesses within a close proximity.

The real issue is whether Ames and the Iowa State community will financially support a Campustown strip club. And the answer is hopefully, no.