December 16th, 2009, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by damp-patch
'In its infinate wisdom, the UK government is proposing to lump burlesque in with lap-dancing/stripping etc and classify it as a 'sexual encounter', so requiring performances to obtain suitable licencing.'
Well no, actually. More an attempt to make it too expensive and troublesome to bother doing, as is the purpose of a lot of its sex legislation. Our basically Puritan government is on another of it's somewhat misguided 'legislate against adults having some fun' trips. Only a Puritan, or a Labour Home Office, convinced that somewhere, someone is having fun and must be saved from it, would conflate burlesque, which is fundamentally light entertainment, with lap dancing.
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The 'Labour' is superfluous - both lots are just as bad as each other in this regard. The days of Mrs T weren't exactly a haven of sexual freedom!
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