Adelaide strip club drops ad after complaint from Upper House MP Frank Pangallo

A CBD strip club has been ordered to remove an advertisement displaying “soft porn” by the city council after a complaint by State Upper House MP Frank Pangallo.

• Firm ads ‘too sexual’ says Pangallo

An Adelaide strip club has been ordered to remove an advertisement displaying “soft porn” by the city council after a complaint by State Upper House MP Frank Pangallo.

The SA Best MLC called for the Adelaide City Council to penalise The Firm, on North Tce, over a video advertisement that he labelled “crude, rude and offensive”.

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Frank Pangallo outside of the Crazy Horse strip club, on Hindley St. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

He said the council found the advertising cabinet containing the offending screen had encroached on a public footpath and gave the business owner a deadline of February 6 to move it back inside their own boundary.

It was removed earlier this week.

“While it has no power to regulate advertising content at business premises, the council confirmed to me that it had received eight complaints about this establishment and its advertising content since 2012,” Mr Pangallo said.