g3 Magazine SEPTEMBER 2009

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Even lesbians who do not give a toss about were defi nitely enjoying themselves. I have fi nd was to offer myself as a sexual object
feminism should surely care about women interviewed strippers and lap dancers. Some and become a butch gigolette.” What a
being abused by other women. I am not of them were lesbians, but none enjoyed bloody disgrace, using feminism to justify
talking about same-sex domestic violence, their work and all of them despised their prostitution.
but the abuse that happens to women in the customers whether seedy horrible men or Things have continued to go from bad
sex industry. Those of you on the commercial equally seedy women. to worse. At least one lesbian bar in London
lesbian scene who pay to see women strip, In a review of a lesbian bar which currently hosts regular stripping nights for
lap dance or talk dirty down a phone line are provides stripping as part of the women. In 2000, a group of lesbians from
guilty of abuse. I know that sounds harsh, and ‘entertainment’ the customer wrote: the UK joined an organised trip to Lesbos.
I’m sure many of you will respond by telling “One of the best lesbian bars I have been to. On arrival they fl ooded the town of
me that a) the women are choosing to be Tuesdays is pole dancing night where you get Eressos with fl yers advertising a ‘Wet Pussy
there and b) that you do not do anything to put fake dollars into their panties.” Party’, prompting the then mayor of the
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nasty to them, only give them your money. Is this OK just because it is women doing village to try to stop around 100 British
Sorry girls, but paying for this type of it to women? Is domestic violence lesbians from disembarking from their cruise
entertainment is tantamount to paying acceptable if lesbians are knocking hell out of ship for a stop off. Behaviour was lewd and
prostituted women for sex. Yes, sex. Just their girlfriends? No? Then why is sexual loud, and to add insult to injury, the women
because there is little or no physical contact exploitation not condemned outright in our were accompanied by a fi lm crew from
does not mean that those of you having a so-called community? Channel Five who were making a fl y-on-
good old look at a woman’s shaved genitals This gradual acceptance of a lesbian sex the-wall documentary called Lesbians Go
and breasts in a strip club are not punters. It industry began in the US (San Francisco of Mad on Lesbos.
also does not mean that the women course) in the 1980s, alongside the What with phone sex lines aimed at
unfortunate enough to have to make their emergence of lesbian sado-masochism and women springing up all over the shop, sex toy
money this way do not despise you, just porn for lezzers. It was around this time that outlets doing a fi ne line in double-headed
because you are a woman and not some Les von Zoticus set up a prostitution business dildos and SM gear, and women shoving
dirty old geezer. aimed at femme lesbians. In a pathetic money into the g-strings of strippers, what
One young lesbian I interviewed for a attempt to justify her actions she said that: hope is there for younger women coming
research project told me that she regularly “The sad, yet pervasive, notion that the out into the scene seeing other women as
called phone sex lines and visited lesbian feminine should always be at the service of anything other than pieces of meat? Are
strip clubs. It was her honest belief that the the masculine and never the opposite we not supposed to behave better than
half-naked dancers working for a pittance in disturbed me to the core of my feminist men, rather than compete to be every bit
the clubs were all lesbians, and that they sensibilities. The only viable solution I could as bad?
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