Lapdancing and Job Centres

[noblegiraffe]

Jobcentres are to stop advertising sex work...but that's fine, because the BBC will do it for them instead. How about this for a rosy portrayal of the lapdancing industry? The stripper doesn't even mention taking her clothes off. I expect she had to do far more than that to earn her £5000.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/10836056

"Giselle, who didn't want to be identified, is training to be a barrister ".

Why are they always training to be barristers? There never seem to be any lap dancers in the press who are working to feed children, pay for a drug habit or because they have been groomed by their pimp partner.

If the job is so legitimate, empowerfulizing (yes I do mean to use that word and not 'empowering') and unrelated to the sex industry that it should be advertised in Job Centres, why does Giselle not want to be identified?

Pah!

"Giselle also described nights where customers have insulted her for being too fat, having small breasts or hair that's too dark - reducing her to tears but she says she understands "it just comes with the territory"."

Yes because any self respecting person can see this is part and parcel of women working (how dare they....).

If it is a service that is in demand, and people are willing to provide that service, then let them get on with it. Nooone else is being hurt, and hey, it gives the bbc somthing to talk about.

It's a "service" in which women are objectified and dehumanised and abused, as illustrated by the one proponent of the industry that they could find. Women are being hurt. Actually.

Yes, and people are hurt in every profession. Statistically, you are much more likly to be injured as a taxi driver, and that is ranked as the tenth most dangerous profession (does not count professions with less than 100,000 workers).

And the only was you can be dehumanised is if you choose to feel it (admittedly, everyone has their own threshhold). Not everyone is in their profession because they HAVE to be.

Women working in strip clubs are raped, beaten up, trafficked, forced into prostitution etc etc. NOT the same thing as hazards of the workplace!!!