The Vegan Stripper: Casa Diablo Gentlemens Club Combines Hot Naked Ladies with Animal Free Eatin’

Talk about a mash up made in heaven- The Casa Diablo Gentlemens Club in Portland, Oregon combines veganism with strippers. I was a vegetarian for six years in my early twenties and could never see myself giving up milk, butter, and cheese, but if anything could convince me to make the jump it’d be a hot naked vegan girl dancing in my face.

Naturally, some vegans are pissed that their movement is being used to sell sex (but then again, a lot of vegans are pissed about one thing or another all the time, so what can you do…).

Here’s a bit from the story in the New York Times, it’s hidden behind a registration wall, but you can head over to BugMeNot and grab some logins (I used ‘pleasestopthis0′ for a login and ‘blahblah’ as a pw, try those first).

TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both. At his Casa Diablo Gentlemen’s Club, soy protein replaces beef in the tacos and chimichangas; the dancers wear pleather, not leather. Many are vegans or vegetarians themselves.

But Portland is also home to a lot of young feminists, and some are not happy with Mr. Diablo’s venture. Since he opened the strip club last month, their complaints have been “all over the Internet,” he said. “One of them came in here once. I could tell she had an attitude right when she came in. She was all hostile.”

Mr. Diablo isn’t concerned with the “feminazis,” as he calls them. As a vegan himself, he says he hasn’t worn or eaten animal products in 24 years and is worried about cruelty to animals. “My sole purpose in this universe is to save every possible creature from pain and suffering,” he said.

Casa Diablo is just the latest example of selling veganism with a “Girls Gone Wild” aesthetic to draw the ire of vegans who complain that such tactics may get people to pay attention to animal cruelty, but for the wrong reasons. In Los Angeles, some frown at the scantily clad Vegan Vixens — a kind of animal-loving Pussycat Dolls — who perform songs like “Real Men Don’t Hunt” at fund-raisers for animal welfare groups.

Link [New York Times] via [Boing Boing]