A24 year old woman was shocked when she signed on at a Southend jobcentre - and was offered an interview for a nude dancing job.
Her outraged father told the local paper: "The first job they offered her was for a tabletop dancer."She burst out laughing because she thought it was a joke, but then she saw the serious side of it. You shouldn't promote things like that to youngsters.
"Who wants their daughter going down there and being offered that kind of job?"
Clearly, the unmaned father has trouble letting go if he thinks his 24 year old daughter is a 'youngster...
The job is advertised to over-18s only and offers £500 a week for dancers to work at Muse, a lapdancing bar in Lucy Road, Southend. Pretty decent money, we'd suggest.
The job description reads: "Duties will include exotic dancing in a lapdancing club, which may cause some embarrassment to some people. The dancing will be fully nude. There is no obligation to consider making an application for this vacancy." In other words, it's entirely up to grown adults to take it if they wish and rejection will not affect their dole money. So stop moaning already!
A spokesman from JobCentre Plus said "No-one has applied through the job centre yet. We wouldn't make any recommendation one way or the other. We certainly wouldn't say We demand you go and take a job like this."
Muse owner Katie Hulin said she had employed more than ten girls after placing an advert at the jobcentre last summer.
She said: "I got quite a good response last year, and employed many of the girls who came down for interviews, so I decided to use the JobCentre again.
"Everything at Muse is 100 per cent legal and the girls are earning a living in a perfectly legitimate manner."

Here's a novelty item for all you music loving ladies.
TheSexySociety.com has launched iGroove Panty for iPod nano - a pair of black lace panties that feature a mini pocket to hold the popular MP3 player. "The panties are perfect for those of us who love to lounge around in sexy undies all day and have our music!" they say, and who are we to argue with such logic?
The undies can also hold money or other small personal items (we'll let your imagination go to work on what might be suitable!), and feature a pink ribbon attached to the waistline. iGroove Panties for iPod nano are priced at $13 each. iPod and sexy lady not included, unfortunately.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man convicted of indecent exposure for stripping naked in a Christchurch laundromat, after he failed to appear for sentencing.
Kenneth Georgeson, 45, admitted the charge several weeks ago and was to have been sentenced the same day, but a fresh charge was laid and sentencing was postponed until Friday.
The charge relates to an incident in which Georgeson took off all his clothes to wash them, leaving him naked in front of several adults and children. He then opened a can of beer and stood watching the machine. What a guy!
Following his last appearance, he was bailed to a tent, after offering to take the judge to see it to prove he lived there.

Actor Matt LeBlanc is being sued for defamation by a woman who claims that he made sexually charged comments about her that were published in a tabloid.
The lawsuit against the former Friends star was filed by Stephanie Stephens in Los Angeles Superior Court against statements LeBlanc made to the National Enquirer in August of 2005 in an article titled 'Matt LeBlanc: My Wild Night With a Stripper.'
The suit alleges that LeBlanc "did intentionally slander" and make "false statements" to the National Enquirer.
In the article, LeBlanc takes the typically contrite line of Hollywood stars who have been caught misbehaving, stating "the stripper was all over me ... I was drinking, and she was crossing the line ... pushing her breasts into me and grabbing my hands to go all over her body."
"I acted like a fool ….. in allowing myself to be led astray and placed in such a horrible situation and I feel ashamed. As a family man, I've asked myself, 'How could I have been so stupid and naïve to get myself into such a situation with a stripper?'"
Don't you just wish one of them would just once say it was great and they loved it?
Stephens didn’t deny a sexual relationship with LeBlanc, but claims that she was "never sexually aggressive" and "never engaged in any sexual touching" and "all contact took place in the privacy of [Stephens'] home."
Ironically, the article does not reveal the identity of the stripper, so it's hard to sympathise with her plight given that the alleged defamation has only been connected to her sincee her lawsuit. Did someone say Publicity Stunt?

A Scottish lapdancing bar may have to take down a huge advertising banner after a stream of complaints from Tollcross residents who say it is "tacky" and spoils the look of the area. This despite the fact that - as this picture shows - you would have to strain to even see it.
The banner - which proclaims 'Scotland's Premier Lap Dancing Club' - and a supporting railing have been put up without planning permission at the Liquorice Club, in Home Street.
Tollcross Councillor Lorna Shiels, who was a member of the Scottish Executive working group which looked into the operation of lapdancing bars, said: "This banner looks completely tacky.
"There are already blacked-out windows and canopies promoting the lapdancing club, but the banner has been put up without permission for about a month now.
"I've noticed they've also started to put a set of pedestals and a rope out on the pavement outside the club to create an entrance-way for customers. I've already asked our environmental wardens to take action because they are blocking the pavement."
Presumably she objects equally to non-naked clubs that do similar things? No, thought not...
Shiels previously described her experience at the Liquorice Club as "far worse" than at any of the other five lapdancing establishments she visited as part of her work with the anti-striptease taskforce. She said she saw topless dancers romp on stage with a naked member of a stag party in the main bar, although the club management denied this would have been allowed to happen, and the police were equally dismissive of her claims.
David Rintoul, chairman of Tollcross Community Council, said he hoped the banner would come down quickly.
He said: "It is just making this building look pretty sleazy and tacky. It's all a bit unnecessary, especially because I'm sure all their potential customers know exactly where this place is."
Councillors will be asked to make a final decision on enforcement action on Wednesday.
Martin Black, licensee of the Liquorice Club, said: "We are just wanting to raise our presence on the street and help people better locate where we are. We are the furthest lapdancing club from the city centre and anything like this is going to help us.
"It's a pretty small black and white banner. It's not as if it's a big neon sign or anything like that."
Mr Black said he had recently applied for formal planning permission for the sign, adding he did not realise that it was needed when it was erected.

A woman received a special treat for her 102nd birthday this week - a male stripper.
Staff at The Nunnery Residential Home in Norfolk organised the surprise birthday visitor for Gwen Dorling after she told them she would have loved a male
stripper for her 100th birthday.
A spokeswoman for the home said: "She had a wonderful time and enjoyed every minute of it. She says she would like two strippers next year."
Gwen celebrated her special day with her son Peter Dunn, 76, two of her three granddaughters and one of three great granddaughters.

Striptease send-offs at funerals may become a thing of the past in China after five people were arrested for organizing intimate farewells that were deemed too raunchy, Chinese state media reported.
Police swooped last week after two groups of strippers apparently gave "obscene performances" at a farmer's funeral in Donghai County, Jiangsu province.
Lest you are wondering just why strippers would be booked for a funeral, the report noted "striptease used to be a common practice at funerals in Donghai's rural areas to allure viewers. Local villagers believe that the more people who attend the funeral, the more the dead person is honoured."
Wealthy families often employed two troupes of strippers to attract a decent crowd. Two hundred showed up at last week's funeral. Now village officials must submit plans for funerals within 12 hours after a villager dies. And residents can report "funeral misdeeds" on a hotline.

The owner of Legends nightclub in Shaw near Oldham has won a fierce battle with bigoted residents and Youth Services to turn the venue into a lapdancing club.
On Tuesday,hysterical objectors at a council licensing hearing claimed drunk and sexually charged men could exit the club, harass or even rape young women hanging outside the youth centre. They naturally had no evidence to back up these ludicrous claims.
And luckily, a legally watertight argument from the applicant was enough to sway the three-man panel to grant the application - albeit with additional security conditions.
The application included an extension to the hours it is licensed to sell alcohol, as well as the right to play music, show films, put on indoor sporting events and vary the license to allow dancing/performance from Sunday to Tuesday (9am to midnight), Wednesday (9am to 1am), and Thursday to Saturday (9am to 2am).
Early objections from police and environmental health officers had been met before Tuesday’s hearing, but residents were still predicatably unhappy. They claimed the venue would be bad for the community, have a negative effect on Shaw’s town centre and attract fighting and drug-taking.
Ed Kelly, youth services’ officer, said the youth centre adjoining Legends had 263 members with up to 50 young people each evening.
"It is a meeting point for young people, including young women," he said. "We are going to have drunk men watching young women, becoming sexually aroused, leaving the bar and coming into contact with girls and young women. There will be harassment, violence and, even worse, rape. We are puting young people at risk if we allow this."
If your editor's memory of youth clubs is anything to go by, local residents had more to fear from the thuggish chavscum such places attarct than they do from lapdancers, but I digress...
Gill Sherrant, for the applicant, said accusations that the club would attract young women to work as lapdancers was "scaremongering".
"This is a moral argument," she said. "We are not here to question the morals or cast aspersions on the people who will use these premises. I am not sure how any well-to-do gentlemen going to the club would take to being called 'a rapist'. It's not for the licensee to police the streets. This is all of our responsibilities."
The panel granted the application on the conditions that door staff are acredited, CCTV is installed, the club joins Pub Watch, and no access is given to people under the age of 18 on days adult entertainment takes place.

Following in the footsteps of Cicciolina and Mary Carey, another porn star is entering the seedier world of politics. Melody Damayo - better known as Mimi Miyagi - is fighting the election to find a new governor for Nevada. She is a member of the Republican party and is promising to improve the state's infrastructure to battle terrorism, upgrade its school system, deal with its growing violent crime rate, and review its property tax rate.
Damayo, 33, insists that politics is a serious passion. she first got involved in politics in 2001 after her divorce becoming the treasurer of the Asian American Republican Coalition of Nevada. She made her last adult movie in 2003.

Just to prove that, despite the best efforts of America's moral fascists, the porn genie is well and truly out of the bottle, adult superstar Jernna Jameson had her wax doppleganger unveiled by Madame Tussauds last week.
Theactress unveiled the wax model at the famous museum in Las Vegas and posed for photos. She's the first porn star to be so immortalised.
.A spokesman for Madame Tussauds said: "We're sure she'll be very popular."