Strict new rules for Plymouth sex shops and strip clubs
LAP dancers will be strictly forbidden from touching their customers under tough new controls on sex shops, lap-dancing clubs and strip shows.
Contact between performers and customers is banned, other than an introductory handshake or kiss, or when a tip is placed in their garter, armband or hand.
Earlier this year Plymouth city councillors approved new rules allowing only one sex shop or cinema and two sex entertainment venues in Union Street.
The city centre will be allowed just one sex shop and no sexual entertainment venues.
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Now councillors are being asked to give the nod to 11 pages of conditions that will govern exactly what goes on behind closed doors.
Lap dancing and pole dancing clubs previously only needed a licence to cover the sale of alcohol, playing music and dancing.
The new policy, adopted in January this year, reflects changes in the law which now class lap dancing and pole dancing clubs as "sex establishments", needing a special licence, like sex shops and sex cinemas.
Residents are now able to object on much wider grounds – for example, if they feel a club is not in keeping with the area or is too close to a school or church. Up to now they have been able to operate in much the same way as a café or restaurant and residents have had limited grounds to object.
The policy – which will be debated by Plymouth City Council's licensing committee next Tuesday – says sexual entertainment venues are not allowed to stage performances on Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Sunday or Christmas Day, and no one under 18 is allowed in as a customer or a performer.
During table or lap dancing the audience must stay in their seats and not take part.
Performers are not allowed to simulate sex acts. In fact, physical contact between dancers, or between customers and performers, during a performance is not allowed at all.
Customers are not allowed to photograph, record, film or electronically transmit any performance – but performances will have to be recorded on CCTV, and made available to police or a council officer.
Performers must stay at least a metre from customers, and they are not allowed to accept or give a phone number, business card or note.
Places offering massage services will have to keep a register of their performers, recording their real name and address.
Passers by must not be able to see into a sex shop and the kind of advertising allowed on the outside of a shop, club or cinema is strictly limited. Sex shops must have disabled access.
An existing operator's new licence will run from March 5 next year. A one-year licence will cost £3,900, and the annual renewal fee will be £3,200.
Comments
by bonode
Tuesday, October 30 2012, 4:33PM
“Blacktoss you desperately need your normality parameters calibrated there.... thankfully the majority of the populace can appreciate it would not be normal to indiscriminately label swathes of society as scum. Just for your satisfaction I verified my concerns with approx 35 chaps present here who unanimously agree you must be some sort of cretin.”
by bonode
Tuesday, October 30 2012, 4:19PM
“Holy Cr*p Blacktoss what affliction causes you to write as a child? Oh wait it explains it all you are actually a trolling 12yr old.......who else with an ounce of brain matter would refer to most of their ancestors as scum (yeah hate to break it to you, but chances are they did all sorts of naughty acts). So let me get this right, all the servicemen that have lived, fought and died for your freedom and sought a good night out in a strip bar at some time in history are in fact scum?? Now go back to licking your monitor and reciting your mantra you sad specimen 'normality'.”
by trudie2010
Monday, October 29 2012, 5:17PM
“I think most of us know what normal is, and most of us are. There will always be a minority of oddballs that frequent these sex clubs, I'm sure a lot of these men are sleazy, and gropey, and I for one would not like to think of young girls out late and coming up against one of these frustrated freaks. Thanks to blackpot, I now know I am not the only person in Plymouth who thinks that these places are morally wrong.”
by blackpot
Monday, October 29 2012, 4:53PM
“Thanks Trudie,and well put...bonode,you've progressed from drivel to full blown verbal diarreha,as it happens there are parameters for measuring normal behaviour,you appear to be outside of them,well done.Hows your supply of paper hankies going?”
by bonode
Monday, October 29 2012, 4:39PM
“Thanks for the compliment, I will gladly accept it. Apologies about the drivel but many thanks for taking the time to read it. You are indeed clearly more likely to be more normal than a stripper .....normal as in your own definition which is indeed unique to you and meaningless to almost all mankind. But Sorry all the same for interrupting your public re-affirmation of your happiness, its a good little mantra so crack on.”
by trudie2010
Monday, October 29 2012, 2:03PM
“Why has Blackpot come in for such scathing comments, seems perfectly okay to me. The people who NEED to use these sorts of places are obviously not happy within themselves, the rest of us are just normal!!”
by Nevman
Monday, October 29 2012, 1:55PM
“"Perhaps they don't like girls", says CharlieBob.
Wrong again, Charlie. But perhaps they do respect women.”
by blackpot
Monday, October 29 2012, 1:16PM
“bonode...i am very happy thankyou,the rest of your drivel isn't worthy of comment stud' lol.”
by blackpot
Monday, October 29 2012, 1:12PM
“Vinnie Gar....if you dont know,i cant help you.”
by CharlieDodd
Monday, October 29 2012, 12:55PM
“There'll always be people who object to 'exotic dancers', maybe they just don't like girls, I dunno. Personally my angel was Nurse Christine Chappell in Star Trek but sadly she only had eyes for Spock even though he didn't want her, huh there's Vulcans for you..”