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Title: | Encouraging sexual exploitation? Regulating striptease and ‘adult entertainment’ in the UK |
Authors: | Hubbard, Phil |
Keywords: | Striptease Adult entertainment Licensing Sexuality Gender |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | © Phil Hubbard |
Citation: | HUBBARD, P., 2008. Encouraging sexual exploitation? Regulating striptease and ‘adult entertainment’ in the UK. IN: Globalisation, Media and Adult/Sexual Content : Challenges to Regulation and Research Athens 2008. Available from: http://sgsei.wordpress.com/conference-papers/ [Accessed 21/10/08] |
Abstract: | Over the last decade, dedicated adult entertainment venues offering
forms of striptease have proliferated in the UK. In many locales these
venues attract considerable opposition, with campaigners alleging
nuisances ranging from noise and drunkenness through to harassment
of local residents. Local authorities consider such complaints when they
decide whether or not to grant licenses for such venues, but under
current licensing laws, are not able to consider objections made on
grounds of morality or taste. Focusing on the ongoing opposition to
proposed adult entertainment venues in the UK, this paper explores the
case made for the reform of licensing laws as they pertain to nude
dance venues. In doing so, it notes the lack of empirical evidence
suggesting such venues deserve to be treated differently from other
spaces of public entertainment, and argues that the impending reform
of licensing law is underpinned by possibly flawed assumptions about
the gendered and sexed nature of adult entertainment. The paper
accordingly emphasizes the ability of the naked body to excite both
desire and disgust, and questions the radical feminist argument that
sex work is always exploitative. |
Description: | This is a conference paper. It is also available at: http://sgsei.wordpress.com/conference-papers/ |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/3777 |
Appears in Collections: | Conference Papers and Contributions (Geography)
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