COLUMBIA, MO. -- Most strip club and adult shop owners wouldn't comment on camera, but Passions of Columbia owner Nellie Symm Gruender had plenty to say about Missouri's new laws against sexually oriented businesses.
She and other shop owners believe business is down 40 percent since the law went into effect.
Strip Club owners she's talked to say their business is off close to 60 percent.
Gruender says the new law means means you'll see more skin at a public pool than inside clubs because g-strings and thongs are outlawed.
Columbia Police tell us even before the law went into effect they had very little trouble with the adult industry in town.
Officer Jessi Hayden said, “A couple of times we've had robberies occur at those retail outlets over the years but at a far lesser rate than at some of our other businesses for instance convenience stores and fast food restaurants."
So far as enforcing the new law, Hayden says they aren't actively patrolling the adult stores, “If the community started calling in great numbers having concerns they were violating the new provisions or had they been in the past then its something we would devote greater resources to as is we just haven't had those complaints."
Cole County Sheriff Greg White said the law hasn't changed anything in his county because the county doesn't have any adult stores.
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