parsforlife Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, ICTChris said: We should retrain the strippers as HGV drivers. The only downside of this is that as young attractive women working as lorry drivers they will be expected to murder themselves. This is where team work comes in, week 1 somebody drives the truck, another gets murdered, week 2 they switch roles. Hang on, Does that work? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satoshi Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Agreed on how awful strip clubs are but these proposals are a dog whistle to exclude and stigmitise sex works. They deserve the right to practice their business in a way which maximises the safety of them and their clients, and minimises the risk of exploitation. By far the best way to meet these three criteria is legalisation and regulation. This has been known about for centuries and the only thing that is stopping it is bizarre, old fashioned purantical beliefs that idiots not only hold themselves but also force onto others. Things are getting better, but it's a very sad way in which the world could obviously, and fairly easily, improve but just chooses not to. And also, I don't think there's anything inherently seedy about sex workers. These people are providing orgasms and pleasure, it's far more worthwhile work than pretty much anything else than anyone does (and far more worthwhile than any job I've ever had). That said, I worked with a lawyer who, when he had a drink, bragged about his university career as a male stripper. Quite a fall from grace you could say, to a profession filled with utter degenerates. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 23 minutes ago, Satoshi said: And also, I don't think there's anything inherently seedy about sex workers. These people are providing orgasms and pleasure, it's far more worthwhile work than pretty much anything else than anyone does (and far more worthwhile than any job I've ever had). Agreed. As I was schooled in my very early career, in my job all I do is help rich people get a little bit richer while getting the benefit of earning a wee wage along the way. It’s not as if I’ve got to deliver important things like life changing news to families or deal with immediate life threatening emergencies. I know my job’s paltry contribution to wider society. If a person can find a way to provide a brief moment of happiness to another on a contractual basis where they both understand the finance and results, I’d say leave them to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Can only echo the clearly very popular sentiment so far, that strip clubs are fucking shit, but banning them is utterly pathetic and ridiculous. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 11 hours ago, Thorongil said: Shutting strip clubs would be a victory for modern age puritans so I hope the Triangle stays open. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Never been to a strip club but this thread has shown me that if I ever get the urge, the person to speak to is @ICTChris - his knowledge of the strip clubs and brothels of central Edinburgh is encyclopedic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 10 hours ago, ICTChris said: We should retrain the strippers as HGV drivers. The only downside of this is that as young attractive women working as lorry drivers they will be expected to murder themselves. We could then retrain murders as butchers. Wouldnt even have to supply them with knives and shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 More than happy to say I've never visited a strip club. Do remember a casual debate at work years ago about the point of a lap dance when you weren't allowed to touch. One lad piped up, "Aye I know but sometimes they get that close to you, you can smell their fanny". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, jimbaxters said: More than happy to say I've never visited a strip club. Do remember a casual debate at work years ago about the point of a lap dance when you weren't allowed to touch. One lad piped up, "Aye I know but sometimes they get that close to you, you can smell their fanny". ^^^True dat. Some of them at The Western you could smell when you opened the door. Edited February 23, 2022 by Sergeant Wilson 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I had to walk past the triangle every day to and from school throughout puberty When I finally got round to going in to them on a stag do in later life it was immensely disappointing compared to my teenage imagination The highlight was in the Burke and Hare when a dancer jumped off the stage and decked a heckler. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 When I was working near Old Street in London it was seriously difficult to find a pub without strippers at lunchtime and constantly being hassled for a quid in the jar. Oi missus, get your nipples out of my pint! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 If anybody wants to see fannies and tits jumping around in public, get themselves along to watch Falkirk - we've got a whole team of them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 16 hours ago, Clown Job said: Strip clubs are shite IMO Still though, wouldn’t want to see people getting made unemployment because some councillors can’t stand people enjoying seeing a pair of tits that'll be the Off the Ball roadshow banned from Edinburgh then. this is their official BBC photo. They look like a jaikie Jack and Victor now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Haven't been in one for years. I get the licensing thing from the point of view that they want to the power to stop a load of them opening up in residential areas or whatever but I don't see what the issue is with a handful of them in the city centre. If folk want to frequent them and folk want to work in them, where's the harm? It's simply puritans using violence against women as a smokescreen to shut down thing that they don't like the idea of but aren't affected by in the slightest. It's really not the direction a modern liberal democracy should be moving in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I went to one in Sydney when I was steaming and had been on a work night out, found it pretty awkward tbh and would much have preferred one on one time with a prostitute: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I went to one in Sydney when I was steaming and had been on a work night out, found it pretty awkward tbh and would much have preferred one on one time with a prostitute: I'm sure the Sex Workers of the Antipodes knickers must be wringing at the thought of a visitation from a 'steaming' Throbber. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post throbber Posted February 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: 18 minutes ago, throbber said: I went to one in Sydney when I was steaming and had been on a work night out, found it pretty awkward tbh and would much have preferred one on one time with a prostitute: I'm sure the Sex Workers of the Antipodes knickers must be wringing at the thought of a visitation from a 'steaming' Throbber. I’m usually in tears talking about how much I love my Mrs at the time money changes hands. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 This may come over a big crass as aman living in Thailand. In Scotchland I've been to 2 stripper clubs, both on "boys" night out in Edinburgh. Horrriffic In Thailand, I lived for 2 years before I entered one. My sister insisted we go...... great night, sad to see. Went the Pattaya about 6 years ago, booked for 3 nights. Left the next morning, not more me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 17 minutes ago, SlipperyP said: My sister insisted we go...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Reading the article it looks as if it's one of those instances where several things are possible so they take the most dramatic possibility as the clickbait headline An outright ban appears less likely than there being some kind of licensing brought in which would help keep things on the straight and narrow and make it easier for residents to object to new places opening next door to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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