Texas, where strip clubs have given rise to Anna Nicole Smith and many other less generously endowed performers, is about to make it more expensive to watch a little bump and grind.

In what some have dubbed the “pole tax,” the Lone Star State will require its 150 or so strip clubs to collect a $5-per-customer levy, with most of the proceeds going to help rape victims. The tax goes into effect on New Year’s Day.

Club owners and some customers say the money is going to a noble cause, but argue the tax infringes on their First Amendment right to freedom of expression, that it will drive some bars out of business and that it unfairly links their industry to sex crimes.

The strip clubs are suing to block the tax, which state officials estimate will raise more than $40 million a year.