Spearmint Rhino strippers fighting for the right to strip. (BBC copyright)

[SteveB]

From THE BBC;
"Spearmint Rhino strippers fighting for the right to strip"

Good points and argument from "Ella", an articulate student and part-time stripper. She does rather make Dr Sasha Rakoff seem stiff and unconvincing. Most of the same points could be made about escorting and the right to choose generally.

I think "Ella's" attitude is typical of the British attitude and unfortunately atypical of the Irish attitude.

The video is "flash" so I cannot post the video itself and not everyone will be able to make it run.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/storie...right-to-strip

[joggon]

that's a sex club she's working in .

[SteveB]

that's a sex club she's working in .

Arguments still stand, IMHO.

[joggon]

she can do whatever she likes in my view but that club is breaking the terms of its licence .
it would be more honest if the club became a brothel

[SteveB]

she can do whatever she likes in my view but that club is breaking the terms of its licence .
it would be more honest if the club became a brothel

No doubt, IF it was proven they were providing sexual services, that would be in contravention of their licence. But doesn't change the points made in the video.

[joggon]

i must have watched a different video , the point of the video i saw was that the clubs licence was under threat due to sex acts in the club .

[SteveB]

i must have watched a different video , the point of the video i saw was that the clubs licence was under threat due to sex acts in the club .

The point was that people should be free to strip and use their bodies as they please. And not be recorded and harassed when they do.

[philipkntz]

How can sexually repressed groups like this call themselves feminist?

[SteveB]

How can sexually repressed groups like this call themselves feminist?

Her attitude was almost sinister, approaching totalitarian. What you do affects everyone else so therefore I have the right to tell you how to live.

[SteveB]

This is, IMHO, what is lost on those who seek to control sex-work stripping and so on. The problem is the laws, attitudes and anything else required to enforce it will have implications far beyond sex-work and stripping and will involve mayor infringements in our human rights in other areas.