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Donate a toy, get a free lap dance at Chicago strip club

A strip club in Chicago is launching a toy drive with a special kind of motivation behind it.

The Admiral Theatre is offering lap dances in exchange for toys. One sealed, unused toy will earn patrons a few minutes alone with one of the club's entertainers.

Entitled, "Lap Dancing for the Needy," the drive is in its third year and it runs from Dec. 14 to 22. The Admiral Theatre's marketing manager, Tim Brown, told Red Eye that anonymous donors had given more than "six carloads" of toys during last year's event and subsequently were given to churches and youth organizations in the club's neighbourhood.

He said donations included remote control cars and helicopters. However, Brown said you won't get away with giving something cheap or inappropriate for kids. Last year, he rejected someone who tried to donate a Roomba vacuum cleaner.

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The club has gotten attention in the past for its unusual fundraising efforts. The same drive last year inspired a joke off on Saturday Night Live featuring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers.

A strip club in British Columbia hosted a similar fundraising effort last week. The CaddyShack Exotic Show Bar in Maple Ridge held its 18th annual strip-a-thon, according to CTV News. According to the report, the strippers donate their entire day's pay to the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Christmas Hamper Society.

We defer to Tina Fey to make light of fundraising efforts like these. As she said on SNL, "More than just your heart will grow three sizes that day."