Lapdancing Clubs used for sex
Written by chameleonfridays on August 10th, 2008In 2002 Spearmint Rhino was taken to court, following an operation by the Met Police, in which the Met complained that it was acting like a brothel and the girls, whose role is “lap dancing”, were taking money for sex.
The Magistrate at Highbury Corner Court agreed with officers’ findings that acts carried out at the club were indecent, but allowed it to keep its licenses as long as the holders’ names were changed.
Spearmint Rhino is not alone in this activity: A report into the issue in Scotland published 2004 stated that “Approximately half of the customers in Glasgow went to clubs looking for sex”. The Lilth report into the issue of sex and lapdancing has some startling statistics based in London borough of Camden.
In 2007 the News of the World Reported that football players were found to be having sex in a lap dancing club. I don’t think they were using it as dating practice though.
