The Hidden World of Lap Dancing
I notice there will be yet another strip/lap dancing TV documentary tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm. It might be worth a look, hopefully it will be a bit more balanced than the ads for it looked!
The programme is called: The Hidden World of Lap Dancing The blurb for the show went as follows:
“A hidden camera report on the rising number of clubs in the UK which offer one on one lapdances, asking whether the growing protest movement across the country can reverse the boom in erotic entertainment. The investigation comes at a time when the department for ‘culture, media and sport’ is consulting local councils about the operation of licensing laws. ”
I dont know about ‘growing protest movement’, whether 100 people justifies being a movement. The American Civil Rights movement had a Million Man March, these people could not even fill a church hall if you gave out free tea and biscuits.
Channel 4 have never been a network to avoid cashing in on any trend that was floating past ie property, weight problems and race so I ssume them have been reading the ‘Red Top’ tabloids who have enjoyed making the industry a scapegoat once again for any disorder or sex crime in the UK.
While I am not expecting a very balanced programme, hopefully they will not perpetuate the worst uninformed assumptions about the industry which employes thousands across the UK.
Channel 4 at 9pm….I am assuming that it will have plenty of cuts from dancers in darkened clubs to Old Biddies and religeous types and the odd social worker for balance.