Exotic dancers in Bristol have been left “screaming and crying with joy” after the council voted down a motion to ban strip clubs and other sex entertainment venues (SEVs) in the city. A consortium of women’s rights organizations and community groups have been campaigning for Bristol to follow in the footsteps of Edinburgh and impose a blanket ban, but strippers insist exotic dancing has given them a better life. “Stripping has allowed me to have a flexible enough schedule to pursue my dream career while simultaneously enabling me to live a comfortable life—not living in constant stress due to living from paycheck to paycheck,” says one dancer.
Green party councillor Guy Poultney received a round of applause when he accused women’s rights groups of arguing “we should discount the voices of some women in order to empower them and to restrict their choices in the name of equality and take away their jobs for their own good.” He added they were acting “as if some women can’t be trusted to make choices for themselves.” Following the vote, the Bristol Sex Worker’s Collective said in a statement: “It should never be this difficult for a group of workers to not only have to defend their work rights but their humanity.”
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