Give me STRIPPERS, or give me DEATH!

This can lead to rape

According to this recent article my the free market mogul, the Texas government considers strip clubs to be a negative externality. The negative externality in mind is that strip clubs supposedly propagate in objectification of women, and even promote domestic violence towards them. This is very well founded I suppose, as strippers are seen as objects of entertainment by their patrons, and this brews intense disregard for the *ahem* greater sex. Furthermore, supporters of the idea that strip clubs are a negative externality claim that many serial rapists and killers have problems with pornography and frequent strip clubs. This claim manifests into the suggestion that pornography and strip clubbing and murder and rape are correlated, which is not completely unfounded. Granted, many of these ornery folk are clinically insane due to indoctrination by the unholy instituions being mentioned. However, one can argue whether or not this supposedly large negative externality is as potent as it seems. Texas believes so, and is therefore implementing a 5% tax per patron at strip clubs. The author of the article seems to disagree with this motion, making a juicy argument for the contrary. Congress claims that most, if not all, serial rapists are strip club patrons. The author suggests that every single 9/11 terrorist was Islamic. By that logic, he claims that the government should tax all who practice Islam. This makes the former argument almost invalid. Regardless of the severity of the negative externality and what the government should do, we can agree that there is a negative externality, as in the graph below.