You'd scarcely believe it to be true, but tree poachers in the jungles of Eastern India are using stripping women to distract, harrass and ultimately scare off government guards from their posts.
In a recent case, forest guards apprehended three men in possession of illegal timber, but a mob of 50 women appeared and began moving in on the guards while disrobing, causing the guards to flee in terror. Indian men are apparently uneasy with public displays of female nudity and fear accusations of rape if caught in compromising circumstances, The Telegraph reported.
" It is proving tough to deal with these women", said forest official B. K. Singh. Authorities said they plan to deal with the strippers by recruiting women guards for the forests. Lets hope the poachers don't recuit male strippers to scare them off.

Lakenheath Country Club - close to the main entrance of the biggest US Air Force base in Britain - plans to launch an 'adult cabaret' night. Plans have been submitted to Forest Heath District Council for approvalby club owner Pete Usher, who wants to open every Thursday.
The club currently stages country and western music nights on Fridays and Saturdays. Usher has stated that he is not setting up a lap dancing club and that the girls would not be dancing nude. "The dancers could be in various outfits, something like a stars-and-stripes bikini."
The application will be discussed by the District Council's licensing committee on Monday. Councillor Bill Bishop stated: "It is an isolated spot so there shouldn't be too many people wandering in off the street and it is a recognised club so there should be no problems for them. These sorts of nights are commonplace now, so provided the facilities are in place then I can't see a problem with it."
He then cryptically added "We don't know if it is going to be women or men dancing yet, although it may be a bit difficult for a man to dance around a pole."
Why, do their genitals get in the way?

The British government continues to press forward with its discredited bill to outlaw 'religious hatred' as a way of appeasing fanatical Muslims who like to see themselves as victims. If they really wanted to improve relations with the rest of society, maybe the Muslim community should stop trying to impose their narrow values upon everyone else. Or is toleration a one-way street?
For example, the BBC today reports that a transvestite beauty pageant in Indonesia was the scene of an violent clash on Sunday when it wasinvaded by a hardline Islamic group. Members of the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) forced their way into a club hosting the Miss Waria 2005 contest.
FPI leader Soleh Mahmud said: "Before Allah punishes us with a second tsunami here in Jakarta, let us ask the police to disperse this event."
Event organiser Megi Megawati said contestants were traumatised by the raid, which saw ten FPI members dressed in white tunics and prayer caps invading the nightclub towards the end of the contest. The FPI is known for attacking bars and other venues considered un-Islamic. "Transvestites should not be made into a role model," said FPI member Alawi Usman. "We are worried it could influence our children," he told the Associated Press.

Some people might feel that Striporama gives the religious a hard time. Here's why:
A woman living at an Albuquerque homeless shelter was told to quit her newly acquired job or get out on the street. So much for helping the homeless get back on their feet.
The woman, identified only as Laverne, had secured work at all nude strip club The Ice House on Saturday, but was forced to quit on the Sunday when the Joy Junction shelter (which sounds kinda like a strip club itself!) found out. They told Laverne that if she wanted to continue to staying at the shelter, she'd have to leave her job. As the shelter was her only place to live, she had no choice.
Apparently, the joyless Joy Junction is a 'faith-based' ministry and its residents are forced to uphold Christian values or get out. So much for non-judgemental Christian kindness. And bad luck if you're a homeless Jew, Muslim, Sikh or atheist.
Shelter director Jeremy Reynolds commented to KRQE News 13 "we're not sure if she was waiting or stripping, but we feel she was surrounded in that environment, it's not a good environment to be in. We're trying to get people back into society, part of mainstream community life." But only if it fits in with his narrow religious views of course...

As some of you know, Striporama is published by Lurid Films, who also brought you Lurid Culture. Well now, in the great tradition of British comics, we've combined the two! More or less...
In fact, Striporama now includes two microsites - Striporama Fetish and Striporama XXX. Here, you'll find news and comment from the fetish scene, club links and reports, plus adult DVD reviews, porn star biographies and links plus more. It's a darker version of Striporama which some of you may enjoy... you can find the sites here.

A group of drooling religious fanatics have attacked popster, actress and vacuous celeb Jessica Simpson over her latest video. Her cover of These Boots Are Made For Walkin' appears on the soundtrack of the entirely unnecessary Dukes of Hazzard remake movie and has upset an organisation calling themselves The Resistance.
In the promo video for the song, Simpson 'dances like a stripper, grinding her butt on old men, and kisses Willie Nelson. At the end of the video she prances around in a bikini while washing the General Lee.' Sounds great!
But one John Connor, spokesperson for 'The Resistance' and author of 'The Resistance Manifesto' moans "She should be ashamed of herself. It's disappointing to have Jessica, a pastor's daughter and Christian role model, join the ranks of the 'singing strippers' such as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. She has one of the most beautiful voices, and is a very beautiful girl, but it's sad to see her whore her self out like this. What's worse is that pastor Joe Simpson is Jessica's manager, as well as her father."
We'd suggest that Connor stop slandering people as 'whores' and find something better to do with his time. Meanwhile, let's have more 'resistance' to religious fantaticism...
Curious viewers can watch the video here.

Right wing religious fanatic Gregory Carlin - who claims to have been responsible for the closure of lap-dancing clubs across the world - is to create a hateful 'pro-family' pressure group to sue ScotlandØs largest local authority over its plans to make sex education compulsory. The organisation, backed with cash from US based right wing Christian groups, will be called The Rights Of The Scottish Child (though it exists to remove their right to a decent education)and will attempt to stop Glasgow City CouncilØs plan to scrap the parental opt out from sex ed classes
"The council has been quite ramshackle in relation to its child protection policies," he said. "We are not hopeful of being able to resolve the sex education problem by negotiating with it. We think it will have to go to court if it perseveres. Our views are identical to those shared by Cardinal O'Brien and the Catholic Church. The more sex education is piled on the worse things get."
In fact, the reality is that countries with good quality sex education have far less teenage pregnancy and more sensible attitudes towards sexuality - though that of course wouldn't be something that the Catholic Church approves of, preferring instead to encourage the spread of AIDs in Africa and bigotry elsewhere through a combination of proscription, hatred and lies.

A strip club in London, Canada - on the verge of controversially having its licence renewed - was the victim of a suspicious fire yesterday.
The fire at Legends is being investigated as a possible arson attack. It broke out about 4:30 a.m. in the building just off Oxford Street, and smoke and fire caused about $40,000 in damage to an outside wall and roof. There were no reported injuries.
Legends, formerly known as the Fabulous Forum, had been closed since for over a year but in December, the owner applied for a liquor licence and adult entertainment permit. The licence was initially refused because of 'many' fire code, property standards and health code infractions. Brett Stein, London's manager of licensing, said this week that all of the issues have now been resolved and the local board of control heard a submission on Wednesday to finally issue the licence. It's not known when the club may reopen.

Canadian burlesque troupe the Fluffgirls have announced dates for their Jungle Exotica US tour. The dates are:
July 20: San Diego - Cannes, 21: Pheonix - Jughead's, 22: Tucson - Surly Wench, 25: Meza - Hollywood Alley, 27: Houston - Proletariat, 28: San Antonio - Sam's Burger Joint, 29: New Orleans - One Eyed Jack's, 30: Austin -Tba, 31: Dallas - Trees, August 02: Oklahoma City - Conservatory, 03: Kansas - Tba, 04: Omaha - Nickerbockers, 05: Denver - Benders, 06: Denver - Benders, 07: Salt Lake City - Burt's Tiki Lounge, 08: Boise - Neurolux, 10: Spokane - B-Sides, 11: Seattle - El Corazon, 12: Bellingham - 3b Tavern, 13: Portland - Dante's Inferno, 14: Eugene - John Henry's, 15: Mount Shasta - Stage Door, 17: Pamona - The Tiki Room, 24: San Francisco - Bottom Of The Hill .
More information is available at their website.

Today and tomorrow in London, nine video distributors will try to make the biggest change to UK censorship since the 'legalisation' of hardcore back in 2000. The labels have banded together to appeal against R18 (sex shop only) ratings given to the following films: Lubed, The Secrets of Kama Sutra, Ben Dover ° Cumming of Age Volume Two, Heart of Darkness, Queensway Trailers, Dungeon Diva 2, Semi-Detached, Catering for all Tastes ° Finger Buffet for Six and LØElisir dØAmour.
Each film features hardcore sex, but the labels are arguing that there is no evidence that hardcore requires special restrictions (R18 movies are not only restricted to licensed sex shops but also cannot be sold mail order) and that the BBFC policy of giving 18 certificates to so-called 'artcore' movies like Baise Moi and Nine Songs - both of which feature explicit sex no different to that found in more honest porn movies - is inconsistent.
We suspect that although the nine labels - Prime Time Promotions, Ben Dover, Hot Rod, Queensway, Premier Film Productions, Tongue in Cheek, Solarnet Media Limited and Millivres Prowler - are on a hiding to nothing purely for political reasons, we naturally wish them luck.
Memebre sof the public may attend the hearing which starts at 10.30 each day and takes place at the Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS.

As reported last month, lingerie firm Blush are running a contest to find new lap dancing talent in Huddersfield. Blush's Alexandra Hanna reports on the first heat which took place at the weekend:
'The contest opened with a sexy show from the Centrefold girls who paraded seductively around the stage wearing Blush lingerie and showed off their acrobatic skills as they gracefully twirled and twisted around the pole.
'We had some stunning local girls get up and have ago and they went down a storm. The guys loved it and were more than willing to volunteer to get up on stage and receive a lap dance from the host of hopeful lap dancing lovelies.
'After much deliberation the five judges decided the winner should be a stunning girl called Leanne who was the final contestant to compete but wowed the crowd with her gutsy performance (she was extremely nervous and needed a lot of encouragement to get up there).
'Second place went to Jade who also gave a fantastic performance dressed as a naughty school girl. The crowd cheered as the winner was announced and presented with a Blush voucher inviting her for lunch with the Blush team and the opportunity to select a Blush outfit to wear in the Grand Final. The remaining contestants received a Blush Goody presented to them by a delicious Blush Boy!
'For the second heat of the competition we have the pleasure of Big Brother's Lesley Sanderson who will be coming along on Saturday 25th June to be a guest judge. Lesley is herself a Huddersfield girl and Billie Rox is one of her favourite nightclubs, sheØs looking forward to giving her opinion on the next group of hopeful contestants.'

The death - by causes unknown - of adult movie star Chloe Jones earlier this month failed to excite the world's press. But inevitably, they are all now drooling over the claim by her husband that she had been raped.
Jones died on June 4th, thirteen days short of her thirtieth birthday. Now, interviewed on tabloid TV show A Current Affair, her husband Mike Taylor claims that she suffered from epileptic seizures caused by a vicious rape in Los Angeles. In an interview to be aired tonight on Fox, Taylor says that Jones was hit on the head with a baseball bat as she left a photo shoot. "It was after that blow to the head that she started suffering from epileptic seizures," he said.
Presumably, her death, the alleged rape and subsequent seizures will somehow be blamed on the adult industry.
Chloe Jones starred in less that thirty hardcore films, alongside several mainstream TV series. She also appeared in Playboy and Penthouse, and like many actresses, supplemented her income by performing at strip clubs, which is where she met her husband, who was the manager of a club she appeared at. She had quit the industry last year and was reportedly working on a book at the time of her death.

We all know that touching dancers in clubs is a no-no, but at Stringfellows, it seems punishable by death. Club security man Marcus Marriott is currently on trial after a customer died, having allegedly been punched in the head by the bouncer. George MacDonald, 34, smashed his head on the pavement after being punched by amateur boxer Marriott, it was alleged in court. MacDonald had been thrown out of the club seconds before.
Dorian Lovell-Pank QC, prosecuting, said MacDonald had been swearing at Marriott as he and two other doorman escorted him out. "In the next 30 seconds Marcus Marriott had punched Mr MacDonald so hard in the right side of his face that it shattered his upper jawbone and sent his body crashing to the pavement where he fractured his skull," said Lovell-Pank.
Referring to Stringfellows, Mr Lovell-Pank added: "One strict rule must be adhered to - you must not touch the girls in any way. If you do, you are likely to be ejected." MacDonald had been chatting with a Polish dancer named Anna. But as Anna danced for him, "he pulled her towards him". He was then ejected from the building.
Marriott, 33, denies alternative charges of murder and manslaughter in October, last year. The case continues.

Barrow women eager to see naked men dancing on stage were let disappointed this weekend when The UK Fantasy Men failed to get their motors running.
The North West Evening Mail reports that the billed three-hour show fizzled out within half-an-hour when the strippers retreated from the stage after a performance criticised for being 'more Steptoe and Son than The Full Monty'. The Travellers Rest Social Club has now apologised to the 64 women who shelled out £8 a ticket.
Paula Currie, out to celebrate her 33rd birthday said: "It was appalling. We were expecting to have a good laugh, we didn't expect to entertain ourselves."
A spokesman for the UK Fantasy Men said: "I've been doing this for 10 years in some rough areas, but it was probably the worst club I've ever worked. The women were chucking things at the compere. They were very hostile. I'll never come back to Barrow."
He also denied not delivering a three-hour performance. He said: "They need to buy a new watch ß I work on Greenwich Mean Time."

As a (fairly) big-name Hollywood star, you'd think Val Kilmer could get naked girls to dance for him quite easily. Apparently not though, and the prospect of a night without ogling T&A forced the actor to desperate measures.
Tired of waiting for a cab to take him from the Playhouse Theatre in London, he approached a strtanger on the street and asked for a lift. As the Daily Mirror's suspciously tabloid-speaking 'witness' explains, "He said to him: 'I'm Val Kilmer - can you take me to Stringfellows?' And the bloke obliged! Val jumped in and headed off."
Peter Stringfellow revealed that Kilmer is a regular visitor, but usually wears 'a disguise'. Guess playing Batman affected him more than we knew...
Meanwhile, it's been announced that Stringfellow plans to open a new lap-dancing club in the centre of Dublin.

Religious nutters in the US town of New Rochelle - which kinda sounds like a stripper itself - gathered to hold a prayer vigil outside Casanova Gold, a new topless club due to open today.
A whopping fifty people attended the rally, led by the Rev. Reginald Hudson, pastor of Union Baptist Church. They carried signs that read "If this club is so tasteful, build it in your backyard" and "Topless clubs degrade women." Like religious fanatics give a hoot about women's rights...
"Our church is a historic landmark," Hudson said. "We have been there for 92 years, and it would be a shame if we turned away from the community now."
New local zoning restrictions require adult entertainment businesses to be at least 400 feet from homes. The previous law banned such businesses from a 500 feet radius. City officials say they need to show that zoning allows adult clubs to open in some places in the city. If they do not, they said, the zoning rules would be declared unconstitutional and would be thrown out, allowing Casanova Gold to offer topless dancing.
At the City Council meeting, local residents spoke against the club. "You don't need to entertain grown men," said doddery Vivian Young, 71. "They have wives and girlfriends." Sure, there are no single men I suppose...

Rap rocker Kid Rock is facing a $500,000 lawsuit after a fight with a DJ in a Nashville strip club.
He was arrested in February this year after he ellegedly punched Jay Campos over the DJØs selection of music at the club in Tennessee (something we've probably all felt like doing from time to time I suspect).“ Rock was taken into Police custody and ordered to pay a $3,000 bond on the charge of assault. Campos has now filed the $500,000 lawsuit at TennesseeØs Davidson County Court. No word on whether his record selction has altered.

A San Diego County ordinance banning nudity by strippers, along with touching and tipping bycustomers, was upheld by a federal judge yesterday. The decision also means that a 'love boutique' near El Cajon must close, and a Spring Valley peep-show business must remove the doors of its private booths and close early in the morning.
Introduced in 2002, the ordinance bans full nudity, touching and tipping, forces adult businesses to close between 2 and 6 a.m. and operate only in industrial areas - at least 500 feet from residential zones, 600 feet from churches, schools, playgrounds or parks and 1,000 feet from other adult stores. It also requires booths in which the businesses show movies must be big enough for one person only and shouldn't have doors or curtains. Deja Vu Love Boutique and Fantasyland Video challenged the ordinances in court, claiming violations of First Amendment free-speech protections.
However, U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns ruled against them, stating the regulations strike an appropriate balance between the rights of patrons to view sexually explicit material and of the county to regulate when and where such activity can take place. He added that county officials appropriately want to curb prostitution, public sexual activity and drug dealing.
"These strip clubs bring crime, blight and corruption into our neighborhoods" Dianne Jacob of the Board of Supervisors gloated, though of course failed to provide any evidence for such claims. "This is a huge victory" she added, "particularly for children and families."

Stage nudity has been wity us since the late 1960's, but it seems that some people still find it shocking. The announcement that the Russian National Ballet will perform Romeo and Juliet with nude bedroom scenes has sparked outrage from deluded prudes in Australia. Complaints have been made about the tour, due to take pace next month.
Promoter Graham Hutchinson said "We've been contacted by various church groups and whatever saying how dare we present something of this nature. Certainly in recent years we've had productions like the Blue Room and I guess even going back to the days of Hair that had nudity and it's been an accepted art form. But surprisingly there's been an incredible outcry from all forms over this."
Gold Coast city councillor and religious fanatic Rob Molhoek said there was no difference between the show and a "nudie bar" - though we suspect he has limited knowledge of either. "My concern is the boundaries just keep getting pushed further and further and the lines keep getting more and more blurred," he said.

The desperate chavscum who make up the cast of C4's Big Brother made a pathetic attempt to drum up publicity yesterday by stripping off. Naturally, this wasn't shown on the 'live' TV feed but iinstead saved for the pre-publicised 'highlights' show, giving The Sun and other tabloids the chance to whip their intellectually-challenged readers into a state of Pavlovian excitement at the prospect of a flash of tit.
For the record, the two soon-to-be-D-listers who 'stripped' are 'Sam' and 'Makosi'. Neither of whom seem any great shakes to us, but what do we know...

If you are a police officer, you'll be supported by colleague and suffer no career consequences if you shoot dead unarmed suspects or bomb down the motorway at 160mph in your new car. But should you expose your underwear in public, you'll be given the boot. That's the message we must take from the case of Rachelle Pantoja, who this week quit the force after being disciplined for appearing in men's weekly Zoo.
27 year old Pantoja answered an ad in the magazine asking for women in uniform to appear in the magazine, and modelled for a spread which saw her strip down to her bra and panties. She is quoted as saying "I don't care what my bosses say. Nobody in the force knows about my modelling past, so this is my dark, dirty secret."
When the 'dark, dirty secret' came out, she found herself investigated by Greater Manchester Police's Internal Affairs Unit, put on restrictive duties and transferred from GMP's Trafford section to the traffic division where she could no longer pose a moral danger to the public. This proved too much and today a spokesman for the force said it had received official notification from Ms Pantoja of her intention to resign.

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We knew it wouldn't be long before we were once again reporting on Striporama's favourite Scottish Nympho, the troubled Jennifer Spence. And sure enough, the former lap-dancer, glamour model and Bank of Scotland TV commercial star (dialogue: "one day I want to sensible") is in the wars again.
Yesterday, she was in court after being found in possession of cocaine. To make it especially embarrassing for her, the drugs were found when she visited... a police station! D'oh!
Her lawyer said she was aware that drugs were in her bag (which just proves that coke DOES addle your brain I suppose) and that "the only person she had hurt was herself". Lisa Butler, defending, added: "She has taken part in social drug taking in the past but the group of friends she was with on this occasion, she no longer sees."
The Glasgow Sheriff Court deferred the case for six months in order for Spence to "show good behaviour" - though surely £20 worth of coke is a piddling amount that was clearly for her own use and hauling her through court when TV executives, record company moguls and PR monkeys snort ten times that amount a day without any police interference seems harsh.
We eagerly await Ms Spence's next headline-grabbing antic and wish her luck on that six months of good behaviour...

Read our Jennifer Spence reports from April and May.

Taxi companies in Las Vegas are protesting against a bill to prohibit striptease clubs from paying cabbies for bringing tourists to their door.
Critics of the practice have called the payments 'kickbacks' and claim tourists who ask to go to clubs are taken for a ride by cabbies who funnel passengers to venues that pay the most. Taxi drivers argue that the payments help them make a living, just like tips that bartenders, waitresses and maids get.
Spokesman Greg Bortolin says Governor Kenny Guinn hasn't decided whether to sign the bill into law, adding that the governor's concerned about the way the provision was tacked onto a bill moments before the Legislature finished work this week. Supporters of the bill say cab drivers would still be able to accept tips from passengers, just not from clubs, restaurants and hotels.

The striptease showcase for The Erotic Awards takes place tonight at Hoxton Hall, Hoxton, London N1. It kicks off at 7.30 and tickets - which may till be available: call 0707 499 0808. to check - are £25. The night features strippers of all genders and raises money for the Outsiders charity.
Sadly, Striporama won't be there, but hopefully we can bring you details of how it went. Anyone fancy writing a review?

Former topless dancer Diane Hampton has become a judge in Henderson, Nevada - and we don't mean judge at a Miss Wet T-Shirt contest either!
The ex Deputy Attorney won the judgeship by 176 votes in a Tuesday contest that drew just 8,210 votes. Hampton, 39, had acknowledged during the Henderson campaign that she worked at a Las Vegas striptease club to help pay her way through college 14 years ago. She called it "a fact of life" and said she hoped the interest it drew to her candidacy would eventually die down.

You've got to hand it to George W. Bush and his Republican chums - they are without shame. The party which is waging war on the adult entertainment industry will play host to porn star Mary Carey at the annual President's Dinner, a Republican Party fundraising event where the main attraction is Dubya himself.
Carl Forti, spokesman for the dollar-hungry National Republican Congressional Committee, had no qualms about Carey and her boss, adult film executive Mark Kulkis, attending. "Their money was donated to the NRCC. The NRCC's job is to elect Republicans. We'll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans," he stated.
As for Carey herself, having run against Arnold Schwarzenegger in the California governors election, she's now been bitten by the political bug. She plans to run for lieutenant governor of California as an independent next year. "I also have a brain and political aspirations," said Carey, whose priorities include legalizing gay marriage.
Kulkis added that they want to prove stereotypes of porn workers wrong. "We're not going to show up with coke spoons around our neck," he said. Good for them.
Unfortunately, his grasp of politics seems exactly whet you'd expect from a porn stereotype, being a supporter of arch-conservative groper Schwarzenegger and claiming to be "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" - though not too fiscally conservative, it seems, to resist spanking $5000 for the chance to be treated like shit by a bunch of nazi scum who hate him...

Ashton in Greater Manchester may soon have its first lapdancing club. Licensee Andrew Wightman wants to transform Bar Denial in Stamford Street into the lap dancing club“ ß but promises it will be done 'tastefully'.
According to The Tameside Advertiser, Mr Wightman says that with nine years left on his lease and a need to keep profits turning over, he needs to explore new ideas for the club.
Addressing the licensing speakerØs panel, he said: "I feel confident I could turn Bar Denial into a respectable establishment, which would include a strict dress code, strict age limit, no drinks offers and no physical contact between the girls and customers. The front of the bar will have a major face-lift, including a name change so it is no longer related to Club Denial. There will be four to five girls walking round in full bikinis, meeting customers, talking, laughing, generally making customers feel relaxed, not rowdy.“ We have had guidance from the big lap dancing bars in Manchester and feel we could break this boundary for Ashton. The bar will be closed by 11pm because we want to attract the early clientele, not trouble-causers."
Before he can open the club, Wightman has to persuade the panel to relax condition 29 of the medieval entertainment licence, which states 'no dancing shall be permitted, which is indecent, profane, improper or of a suggestive nature'. A rule which, if enforced as written, would surely close every nightclub in Manchester...

A stripper who worked at New York's Scores club was found murdered yesterday.
The victim, a 30 year old Russian immigrant, was Elena Pismennaia. She was found by her roommate in the kitchen of their East 29th Street apartment, police said.
Neighbour Carmen Morales said police told her it appears the woman was cutting a pineapple at the time of the attack and that a plasma television was believed to be missing.
Sources say investigators were talking to someone last night. Police said there were no signs of forced entry. A crew from the Department of Environmental Protection searched sewers on the block for a weapon but apparently did not find one.

Suddenly, telling your girlfriend he looks like the back end of a bus isn't such an insult. Vogue reports that Damaris Evans' sexy knickers are to be advertised on London transport. However, the image of sexy arse cleavage has had to be retouched (ooh-er!) first.
"The Mayor of London's office wouldn't let us show any bum cracks," Evans commented. "So we had to move the ribbons so they hang straight down the centre. I still think it will look gorgeous though ° this sexy bottom driving off on the back of a London bus."
In the interests of science, we've reprinted both versions here...

Britain's young women feel that lap dancing and glamour modelling are respectable, even aspirational careers, a survey today reveals.
The survey, carried out by a publicity-seeking 'mobile entertainment provider', says that 63% of 15-19 year old girls questioned would rather be glamour models than nurses, doctors or teachers, while the likes of Abi Titmuss, Jordan and Jodie Marsh were seen as bigger role models than Harry Potter author JK Rowling and faded feminist Germaine Greer.
Spokesman Fraser Lewry said: "Teenagers are witnessing the likes of Abi Titmuss and Jodie Marsh gracing the covers of their favourite magazines every day, so it is hardly surprising that they want to follow in their footsteps. Taking your clothes off is now more lucrative than ever and teenagers see it as a great way of making money and becoming famous."
Of the one thousand girls asked, 63% found being a glamour model most appealing. A quarter thought being a lap dancer would be a good profession (which is actually a significant minority, but let's not split hairs) but just 3% picked the teaching profession. Unsurprising as they are young enough to know exactly how much abuse teachers have to go through daily.
Nearly half of those that took part saw Titmuss as a role model, compared to 33% for Jordan, 7% for Anita Roddick, 9% for JK Rowling and just 4% for Germaine Greer.

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After his arrest this week on sexual harassment charges, actor Christian Slater has found some unlikely defenders, according the the New York Post. Strippers at New York's Scores have said that he behaved like a gentlemen whenever he visited the club.
Slater, who is accused of grabbing a woman's arse as she walked down the street, always kept his hands to himself on his apparently frequent visits to the club. "It's difficult for some men to remain calm when I take off my gown and reveal my 36Ds," stripper Logan said in classic tabloid-speak, "but Christian always remains cool - he has never attempted to touch me inappropriately."
Paris, who danced for Slater on Friday, added "I don't believe that he would grope a stranger in the street. The charges must be false."
Another dancer, Jade, chimed in with "even when I am dancing up close and personal, Christian just looks and tells me that I look great. I believe he is innocent."
And finally, Ana Maria declared, "He is one of the most polite and kind celebrities that I have ever danced for."