Report wants lapdance crackdown

Last Modified: 22 Apr 2008
By: Jon Snow

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.