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08.04.2022 - 15:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Lapdancers working in Edinburgh say they will be forced to work in dangerous unregulated conditions if a planned ban on strip clubs comes into effect next year.
Last week, city councillors voted five to four to impose a nil-cap on sex entertainment venues (SEVs) from April 1 2023.
Labour and Tory members united to vote for the blanket ban, defeating an SNP bid to protect existing venues, after hearing from activists who said clubs promoted the sexual objectification of and violence towards women.
But the Record has spoken to a number of dancers who say the move could actually expose them to a greater risk of harm.
Unions say strippers from the city's four clubs will be forced "underground", working private functions that lack the tough security, CCTV and zero tolerance policies of a licensed premises.
Dancer Vivi Sterling said of those who supported the blanket ban: "The fact of the matter is they're trying to 'protect' the very women that they're not protecting.
"These objectors have just made things up about 'violence against women'. But where is their evidence?
"They want to protect women against violence but they're going to force us into doing work in violent environments that can't be regulated."
Vivi has been dancing for around 15 years, financing a move from her native Texas to Scotland.
She works three days a week, says the job fits her lifestyle - and prefers it to working in a bar.
The 36-year-old added: "The Labour and Conservative members have made up their mind in the sense that they don't care.
"We are a scapegoat. When they say they are protecting women, they only have a certain kind of woman in mind. It's an agenda.
"Men are exposing themselves in the streets, but we're the problem?
"There were times I was
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