The petition runs out on October 17th, we have nearlly 1500 signatures, help us get 2000!!!

SIGN THE PETITION NOW AND SEND THE LINK TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!!

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/lapdancing/

Changing the law will allow councils to say NO to lap dancing clubs and CRUCIALLY, will see the licensing of lap dancing clubs become a gender equality issue.

Here's why it is a gender equality issue, as described by Lucy, a woman who previously worked in a club:

"The truth is this: the customers do not want clever lapdancers. The way you end up behaving in order to maximise your earnings, is to play dumb. You are agreeable, submissive, charming, seductive, alluring, you feign interest, you commiserate, and you are required to pretend to find men attractive who you do not find attractive. It is entirely false. This feeds a perception that this is what men want from women. It is deeply destructive. It begins to cement the belief that men are interested in women only as sexual objects, and that the perfect sexual object is a compliant one.

In reality the job is about constantly selling yourself as a product which represents a very particular, very limited aspect of what it is to be a woman. You are essentially totally and utterly objectified"

Help change the law and help stop the spread of lap dancing clubs.

Anna x