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Linen DeFiller on Sunday, November 30th, 2008, filed under Business.
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The women who work as lap dancers in strip clubs are no less humans and do no less work than a blue-collar worker. So, isn’t it the time that women who work in strip clubs got treated to the same labor laws that their blue-collar customers are forced to adhere to? The LDA (Lap Dancing Association) in the UK hopes that soon they can get more women on the books for their wages, so they can promptly take them out again in the form of union dues. The All-male leaders (and bar owners) of this Association say it’s to keep the girls safe from any unfit work practices.
As per those men:
“Operating in accordance with the code will demonstrate a high level of professionalism and show that clubs recognise their responsibility towards their staff, dancers, customers and local community. We want to distance our industry from the sleazy image of drugs and prostitution.”
So, what do they mean by sleazy image and prostitution. Do they mean that the lap dancing girls do not expose even the intimate parts of their body? Do they mean that the lap dancing girls do not engage into intimate activities with ’special’ (paying) clients? I don’t know how things are done overseas, but in America pole-and-lap-dancing is an exotic, youthful exercise done by soccer moms and Lindsay Lohan to strengthen and tone their muscles in lieu of high-impact yoga, not common strippers.
That must be why the LDA is trying to argue that lap dancing clubs “do not base their business model on sexual stimulation.” Well, true, they base their business model on bilking men out of their cold, hard cash and then forking over a percentage of the profits to the house, ensuring that a woman will never be financially independent enough to leave the business. Sexual stimulation is only a distasteful side effect of the whole business!