Lap dancing’s naked truths
Zoe Williams has this article on the Guardian. She writes:
It’s the kind of loophole the sex industry must have been dreaming of: in 2003, when the Licensing Act came into force, lapdancing clubs could suddenly be opened as easily as a karaoke bar or a Starbucks. Previously they needed a special nudity licence. The results are striking - the number of clubs in Britain has doubled, to 300, in just four years . . .
In Camden, a report by the Lilith project comparing the three years before and after the opening of four lapdancing clubs found that incidents of rape rose by 50% and sexual assault by 57%.
I’m talking in broad brushstrokes, but I think everybody has always known this about these clubs. It doesn’t make sense for the legal sex industry to have no interaction with the illegal one. The participants are the same people . . .