And yet I do, viscerally, object to lap dancing – and among my thoughtful and tolerant female friends I am not alone. We are not prudish, we’re not generally judgemental and we haven’t got where we are today by having a tantrum at the merest hint of sexism or smut. But, in my narrow and admittedly baffling experience, men can’t see what’s wrong with a strip club, and women can’t understand why they think it’s OK.
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I know that decent men go to strip clubs, too. (Although I don’t believe that most of them tell their wives and girlfriends.) And, just because I don’t get it, doesn’t mean that I should necessarily disapprove. I don’t understand why (mostly) men gather to watch football any more than I understand why they go out together to look at boobs, but I wouldn’t want to stop them doing either. And yet, in the case of the latter, I do ….
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