"strongly opposed to the proposed pole tax," Sam Cecola, the North Side club's director of operations, told the Chicago Tribune.

Micheal Ocello, president of the Illinois Club Owners Association, told the Tribune he cannot find scientific proof "that going to an adult club causes people to go out and commit rape, commit crimes," though he applauded Hutchinson for "trying to do something good."

Some sociology research has shown connections between strip clubs and organized crime and human trafficking in places like Queensland, Australia. Sheila Jeffreys, a political science professor at the University of Melbourne, wrote a paper called "Keeping Women Down and Out: The Strip Club Boom and the Reinforcement of Male Dominance" in 2008 that reviewed the global boom in strip clubs.

"Strip clubs are not separate from society butinfluence on many levels the way men relate to women," Jeffreys wrote.

Anthropologist Katherine Frank said one can't single out strip clubs as promoting women's objectification. She said attempts to link violence against women directly to visiting strip clubs or viewing pornography would be "far too simplistic."

"Women can be objectified many settings, from the workplace to the street," Frank told ABC News.

When asked about the chances for the bill's approval, Huthinson said, she was not sure, though she was "glad it is generating the conversation."

"We're not saying strip clubs are to be abolished or saying men who go to strip clubs are rapists, but we know strip clubs perpetuate that women's bodies are for sale," Poskin said.

Poskin said the coalition explored the idea two years ago to help women