San Antnio- San Antonio strippers and strip clubs are throwing in the towel by throwing on the towel, and ending their three year long legal fight against the city, 1200 WOAI news reported exclusively this morning.

Jim DeeGear, who has represented six prominent strip clubs and two strippers in a challenge to the controversial ‘human display ordinance’ that restricts activity in topless clubs says his clients have agreed to no longer be topless in exchange for falling outside the restrictions of the law.

“They will wear pasties or the modern day equivalent of pasties,” DeeGear told 1200 WOAI’s Bud Little. “They will not be topless.”

DeeGear says by covering up their breasts, the dancers at the clubs will not be covered by the human display ordinance, which bans lap and table dancing, restricts the distance the dancers must keep between themselves and the customers, and restricts private rooms and other activities.

“The bottom line is that it makes more business sense for my clients to switch than to fight. That means the battle is over. The city has won this round,” DeeGear said.

Since they won’t be covered under the human display ordinance, the dancers will be able to touch customers, perform dances at their tables, and perform other activities short of sexual activities, which are regulated by other ordinances.

It also means the strippers will not have to register with the city and wear the infamous ‘stripper badges’ which caused so much controversy. The strip club managers and the clubs themselves will also not have to register.

Restrictions on table and lap dancing threatened the livelihood of the dancers, many of whom pay the clubs for the permission to work there, and make all of their money in tips from lap and table dances. Strippers were finding tip money fading as they attempted to conform to the new laws. One told 1200 WOAI news that it’s more profitable for a dancer with pasties to perform a lap dance than for a topless dancer to stay three feet away from clients.