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Daily Mail
February 28, 2014
A third of strip club dancers are students who are increasingly likely to come from middle-class families, a study shows.
They have become a ‘core supply group into the sex industries’, with clubs even attempting to recruit pretty girls during university freshers’ week events.
Researchers say that the ‘normalisation of porn’ and the rise of ‘raunch culture’ have led to sexual services such as stripping increasingly being viewed as respectable, particularly among the middle-classes.
Some students are secretly joining the industry because they are excited about experiencing a ‘forbidden occupation’ and enjoy the party atmosphere of the clubs.
They consider earning cash in hand ‘a bonus’, while other less affluent students are working in strip clubs to help pay for their education.
The study was carried out by Leeds University academics Dr Teela Sanders, a reader in sociology, and Dr Kate Hardy, a lecturer in work and employment relations. They interviewed almost 200 dancers from pubs and strip clubs across the UK and found that 29.4 per cent were students.
Dr Sanders told the Times Higher Education magazine: ‘Many of these dancers are from middle-class backgrounds – they are not coming from families where money is a big issue.’
A number of the students saw themselves as dancers, not sex workers, because ‘selling striptease had become more palatable and socially acceptable’. Dr Sanders added: ‘They enjoyed dressing up to go out and many say it wasn’t too different to heading out on a night out.’
Their study, published by the British Journal of Sociology of Education, claimed that there was a ‘growing acceptance and normalisation of sex work among undergraduate students in the United Kingdom’.
