From The Metro:
Lap-dance clubs 'threaten equality'
Women's equality at work is being threatened by displays of pornography and the use of lap-dancing clubs to entertain clients, a new report has warned.
The Fawcett Society said the sex industry had "infiltrated" the workplace after an "unprecedented" expansion over the past decade. The campaign group said exposure of employees to pornography at work was "rife", ranging from the display of pornography and a trend of entertaining clients and staff in lap-dancing clubs.
Research for the Fawcett Society found that 41% of UK lap-dancing clubs directly targeted employers through marketing on their websites. Most lap-dancing clubs in London provided "discrete receipts" which enabled employees to claim back expenses from their employer, while lads' mags were displayed for sale in more than 50,000 workplaces, said the report. There were no independent, compulsory guidelines about the display and sale of pornography, and no major retailer had a policy of covering up lads' mags or putting them on the top shelf, said the Fawcett Society. A fifth of men admitted accessing pornography at work.
Kat Banyard, campaigns officer at the Fawcett Society, said: "Despite relative silence on the issue within employer circles, our research shows that the sex industry is a major threat to women's equality at work. For too long, employers have engaged with the sex industry without due regard for the impact on female employees, and have failed to prevent the illicit use of the sex industry by employees in a work context. But this is an issue that employers cannot afford to ignore."
We don't need no stinkin' objectivity
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And yet, have just heard on the BBC news some woman at the TUC conference complaining about the new sex regulations in Camden inadvertantly affecting her member's jobs, and potentially threatening stag nights and hen nights.
Her members being....burlesque dancers!
That'll put the cat among the pigeons with the Fawcetts... ;)
"41% of UK lap-dancing clubs directly targeted employers through marketing on their websites."
Surely if they are trying to demonstrate that companies are routinely using lap-dancing clubs they need to show what percentage of companies use them rather than what percentage of lap-dancing clubs target corporate clients?
Most balloon operators probably target corporate clients but it doesn't demontrate that ballooning is a widespread means of transprot in Britain's business community.
JM, exactly.
Ross, if we start pointing out all the logical and factual errors, we'll be at it for days. Like the misspelling of "discreet" and the comment that "lads' mags were displayed for sale in more than 50,000 workplaces". Those workplaces being largely, er, shops, I take it?
The lefties obsession with Thought Crime continues....
Err, what's a Lap-Dancing club? On second thoughts don't tell my, I might just wanna go to one.
The Fawcett Society includes amongst it's supporters Diane Abbott, Cherie Booth, Tracey Emin and Harriet Harman. Oh, and Sophie Ellis Bextor.
I'm sold..
Let me see if I understand it right:-
"Lap Dancing Clubs" are places where men go (I presume it's men, mostly?) to look at women and girls, either taking their clothes off or dancing without some or most of said clothes.
Are the women paid? I presume so, or they would not turn up. is there then a contract? Yes.
Furthermore, I learn that the men who have paid are not allowed to touch or handle the women. "Touching" may be the subject of separate private arrangements later, but that is outside the scope of the specific commercial contract existing at the time of the dance, as I undterstand it.
So what's in it for the men? Ostensibly, nothing, so they are being discriminated against, and having their rights to exciting sex abated by contract and Law.
So what's in it for the women? Money, exposure to potentially more money, in a safer environment that the street or the school playgorund, and equality.
So why the beef from the Unions?
I can't
sorry that didn't finish...I can't see why they are complaining, or is it to do with finding out what people like doing, and putting a stop to it all?
David's right, we're being discriminated against. As a bloke, you just try getting a job in a lap dancing club. I'm beginning to feel rather despondent with all this rejection..
w/v: reissiom - Gordon Brown attempting to say recession perhaps..?
Why are they rabbiting on about equality still when they have it?
Its a very nice article. I enjoy it very much. Its a well written on very fully cover the topic.
The do solicit donations on their site & say "The Fawcett Society is a charity and we rely enormously on your support" wgich suggests they are not wholly government funded. On the other hand "enormously is rather slippery term unlike "wholly" or even "largely" & they noticeably refrain from saying where the dosh comes from. Experience suggests taking the default position that a charity be assumed government funded until it shows otherwise. I assume they are fake.
Neil, you need assume no longer. They are!
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