Report wants lapdance crackdown
Updated on 22 April 2008
In the light of today's call for a crackdown on lapdancing clubs, we ask: do they offer a sex encounter or just tacky entertainment?
"The normalisation of paying for sex and exploiting women" - one MP's description of the proliferation of lapdancing clubs in the UK.
Today the campaign group Object published a report calling for a crackdown on the clubs.
They want them to be classified as "sex encounter establishments" rather than entertainment venues, making licences harder to get.
So is watching a naked woman a "sex encounter" or just rather tacky entertainment?
Chris Knight, operations manager of lapdancing chain For Your Eyes only, and MP Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods, who is backing the campaign to get the licences changed, came into the studio to discuss the issue.
