On sexual stimulation

The esteemed sleazy old man (and Tory) Peter Stringfellow has some odd opinions, one of which, as presented to the Commons culture committee today, was that lapdancing clubs and the like are not "sexually stimulating". Ho hum.

Given the clientele of such places, ETTL suspects punters are not going to Stringfellows for a discussion of mid-18th century French love poetry. The kind of men who want/need to pay women to take their clothes off still have enough humanity to recognise that they do so as they find it a turn-on. Anything else is an insult to everyone's intelligence, theirs included.

Thus such clubs, as is being planned, should be forced to apply for "sexual encounter" licences, taking them out of the same legal bracket as your average boozer or more salubrious club. The prohibitive cost of such licences would hopefully lead to less places being established in the first place, and less of a commodified sexual culture taking hold of British cities.

This is not prudent sexual morality; this is proper licensing which takes into account the negative spillovers, in terms of a more backward society, that Stringfellows and other stripclubs create, and ETTL hopes things move quickly in this direction.