I was the owner/operator of a taxicab in Jacksonville for many years. There are a few private clubs here in town that require membership, dress code, etc. and the situation is no different. If the club has a waiting period for approval, then you have to wait. For the most part, you are just dealing with topless bars or general admittance situations. There are no cries of discrimination here. The city and county both have recently shut down some very popular bars as public nuisances. The patrons were actually coming out and fighting in neighbors' yards and going into nearby businesses and continuing to fight. Over the years, I have witnessed some unbelieveable fights. Every bar here has well trained and well armed (mace, stuns) security forces. And they are needed. It is nothing for a twenty to thirty person brawl to spill into the parking lot and even damage patrons' cars. These guys are tied up all week in training, and most of them have the weekend to let loose and that is exactly what happens. Take a group of rowdy intoxicated men and put them in a situation where they outnumber the women 10 to 1 or worse and you have a recipe for trouble. From driving a taxi, I know that the Marines get in your cab and want to go to a college town or some other city where the ratio of men to women is better. The drivers reccommend Wilmington because it is a 2 hr. trip in which they can earn more than driving around Jax in 4 or 5 hours. Often, they are called back for the return trip so that is more of an incentive to reccommend going out of town. Some of the guys just want to get away from the other Marines, but mostly it is to associate with the women. What really used to bother me as a father was when they would get in the cab and ask where the high school girls were hanging out. At that point, I preferred that they went out of town.