I haven't been reading the letters page of the E&E for a while, but there is no doubt on what the main topic of correspondence has been. Exeter is to get a new lap dancing club opening up on the Quay. Unsurprisingly there has been a feverant group of indignant moralists, bemoaning the fall in morals of society that allows the creation of such a place of debauchery within Exeter. It sounds like the city will be twinned with Sodom.
On the side of the anti-lap dance crew is the E&E itself, which ran a piece of slightly dodgy entrapment journalism. From what I could gather from the skim reading I did, the Echo sent a young female reporter to be interviewed as a dancer for the new club. She pretended to be a strapped for cash and desperate to earn some extra money. The Echo reported its shock that the girl was given tips on how to dodge tax and, horror of horrors, she was even told that the owners of the new nightclub could put her in touch with a massage parlour if she wanted to earn a bit more on the side.
The Echo was disgusted.
Thing is, if there was a girl looking for assistance getting into the world of massage, she might want to look in the classified pages of her local paper. Here - beside the ads for 18+ local flirts, bored divorced housewives and dark dusky ladies with adult interests and premium numbers - she will find Chinese Pink Girl, A1 Oriental and Platinum Massage, all of who might be able to offer advice on getting into the massage business. I wonder where a local paper willing to carry such ads could be found? Why in the outraged (but happy to take get money wherever they can) E&E, of course!
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