The search is on the find Huddersfield's sexiest lap dancer.
Lingerie firm Blush are launching the Blush Babe 2005 competition to celebrate the opening of its store in Cross Church Street. Six heats will take place on Saturdays at the bar Billie Rox throughout June and July, with the final on July 30th.
Alexandra Hanna, marketing manager of Blush, said "it's all a bit of fun really but I think a lot of people will really fancy getting up and having a go. The perfect lapdancer can keep the crowd entertained and really loves doing it. I am one of the judges and I will be looking for confidence and ability but we hope the people taking part will also have a good time."
The winner gets £1,000 of designer Blush lingerie, a three-month contract to work at new erotic club Centrefolds at Folly Hall and six months' gym membership. Everyone who dances will get a Blush goody bag containing lingerie and other gifts.
"People are a lot more laid back about this kind of thing these days," said Alexandra (unless they are local politicians or hard line feminists of course!). "I'm sure we will get people registering to take part before hand and even people deciding to have a go on the night. Hopefully everyone will have a really good time."
The heats start on June 18 and the final will take place on July 30.
To be in for a chance of scooping this prestigious title, , visit www.blushparty.co.uk or contact Alexandra on 01484 847840.

As you may or may not know, eBay has a strict policy on the sale of underwear - if it's used, it can't be sold. And they make NO exceptions, as the owner of Aberdeen's Private Eyes lap dancing club discovered.
Tony Cochrane had put a pair of panties worn by Madonna in Body Of Evidence up for auction. he's bought them for £800 and they's had pride of place on the wall of his club alongside similar items from Striptease, Showgirls, True Lies and Baywatch. When the club underwent a refit, he decided to sell them on eBay, where they attracted a predicatbeBay le amount of interest. But after five days, the site terminated the auction, stating that 'does not permit the sale of any used undergarments'. Well, I suppose it's possible that the successful bidder could have been buying them for sniffing purposes...
Cochrane commented "I don't even think we can wash them and put them on sale. But we have received a private offer to buy them."

UPDATE: the panties finally sold for £1000 to a private bidder in the USA.

If you've enjoyed watching the likes of Tori Wilson and Trish Stratus on WWE Wrestling, you've probably thought that the action would be much better if the women wore less clothes. If so, the NWWL is for you.
The Naked Women's Wrestling League is a gloriously mad concept that has recently emerged on DVD (and made an appearance on Granada Men and Motors), and more or less does what it says on the tin. Assorted naked wrestlers sporting outlandish names like Spitney Beers (pictured), Cruella Bleeds and Ninja Chops take the fine art of naked female combat to a new level of madness.
The whole shebang is hosted by Carmen Electra, who has also recently launched her new burlesque troupe The Bombshell babes, inspired by her time with LA's Pussycat Dolls.
You can order copies of the NWWL DVD here. To see a video trailer, click here.

In the great Sunday tabloid tradition of exposing the unimportant personal lives of minor celebrities, the Sunday Mirror today revealed that 'cricket ace' Dermot Reeve had sex with a teenage lap dancer against the tinted glass of a VIP box as England played a Test match below. The TV sports presenter had' fast and furious' sex with 19 year old Renee Richards until a call on his mobile sent him rushing back to Channel 4's commentary box. Unsurprisingly, she then sold the whole sordid tale to the papers.
Other tacky and - let's be honest - laughable revelations included the claim that he 'gave her a naked massage while high on cocaine and singing the hits of his favourite band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' and 'vowed to quit cricket to pen a serious self-help book on RELATIONSHIPS.'
"I believed him when he said he was living a single life," said Renee last night. "I can't believe I was so naive." Yes dear, you're quite the innocent I'm sure...

Annette Pharris sounds like the kind of mother we all wished we had when we were teenagers. But unfortunately, she's facing a jail sentence after hiring a stripper to perform at her son's sixteenth birthday party.
She paid a 29 year old stripper called Sassy (real name Cassandra Joyce Park) $250 to perform for the 30 guests at the party in Nashville. Pharris commented "I was trying to give him a 16th birthday that he wouldn't forget. I wanted something special for him and it didn't harm him. My son is very mature."
Apparently, things crossed the line when the guests contributed a $150 whipround for the stripper to remove all her clothes. "In some of the pictures, she is sitting in their lap or her breasts are in some of the children's faces," commented Detective Matt Chance, of NashvilleØs Sex Crimes Unit, a man who clearly believed that anyone under 18 is a 'child'. Perhaps he'd be happier if she'd bought her son a rifle.
A grand jury studied 100 photographs from the party and indicted Mrs Pharris and her husband on charges including contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Sassy, her escort and her manager were also charged.
Mrs Pharris said that she had the permission of all the 'children's parents for them to be there and that police overreacted. "Who are they to tell me what I can and can't show to my own children?" she said.
16 Year old Landon Pharris, far from feeling corrupted, said that he would remember his birthday treat for a long time: "I enjoyed every bit of it. I'm a teenager. It was fun."

A legal attempt to block the opening of For Your Eyes Only in Glasgow's Royal Exchane Square has failed.
The club was approved by the city's Licensing Board back in October, but typically, local politicians were outraged and went to court to try and block the decision.
As we've come to expect from Scottish politicans, the usual erotophobic nonsense was trotted out, including entirely unfounded complaints that the clubs would 'exploit women and give the city a sleazy image.' Because clearly no major international cities have such venues.
In March, the row went to Glasgow Sherrif's Court, where lawyers for the licensing board argued that existing lap-dancing clubs in Glasgow did not suffer from any of the problems raised by objectors. They also said such clubs did not require any extra policing. About time these inconveinet facts were pointed out to protesters.
Sheriff Ian Peebles, backing the original decision to allow the club to open, said "the board were entitled to say that if the problems had not come to pass at other lap-dancing establishments, it was a reasonable inference that they would not happen at the premises subject of this application."

A body discovered in Mississippi has officially been identified as missing Memphis stripper Corrie Duckett. The 22 year old had been missing since March 17th. Duckett had last been seen with another stripper, Melissa Ferris. Memphis police began investigating Duckett's disappearance as a murder after Ferris was charged with fatally shooting her boyfriend, Jeffrey Opp, during a standoff with authorities in Florida earlier this month. Ferris and Opp had fled Memphis when authorities zeroed in on them during the investigation of Duckett's disappearance.
Former male stripper and model Raymond Clark is beginning a 280 years sentence for sexually assaulting seven people, mostly aged 14 and 15 in Atlanta. Clark was convicted earlier this month on 27 counts including rape, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated child molestation and assault with a deadly weapon. He lured his victims by posing as a talent scout and claimed he could help them become models or actresses. Instead, he would rob and rape them.

There will be no stripping in Smethwick after the local council threw out an application to open a new club four nights a week.
The Express and Star reports that a Jogjiwan Mangara wanted to open a Gentlemen's Club on Rolfe Street featuring lap dancing and striptease. He said opening times would be between 7pm and midnight, Wednesdays to Saturdays with no Sunday opening. But local residents complained about the plan, fearing anti-social behaviour late at night, parking problems and increased noise (presumably there are no pubs in the local area then).
Resident spokeman James Hickey trotted out the usual misinformed crap. "The last thing they need is lapdancing striptease at the end of the road," he said. "There are children in the street and there are already lots of parking problems."
Not that he had to worry, as local councillors once again used thie powers to enforce their own moral judgements. Councillor Darren Cooper commented "we are opposed to that sort of thing, particularly in that area because of the inappropriateness of siting a club of that nature there. We were supporting the residents in their fight against the plans and we will continue to do so, because these things have a tendency to come back at some point in the future."

The pointless and ineffectual ban on selling R18 hardcore videos and DVD's via mail order was upheld in court today.
The judgement for the recent High Court appeal hearing was delivered by Lord Justice Maurice Kay & Mr Justice Newman. They dismissed the appeals of porn distributors Interfact and Pabo, who had previously been convicted after Trading Standards took them to court for selling R18 titles via the internet.
The High Court rejected the argument that an internet, telephone or letter sale processed in a licensed sex shop should be considered as supplied from a licensed shop. The judges stated that the scope of the“ term 'supply' was wider than just the financial transaction and included delivery to the purchaser, and so could not be said to have occurred in the licensed premises. They also decided that a mail order brochure is an 'offer to supply' outside of a licensed sex shop and so is also prohibited under the Video Recordings Act.
The judges did not accept that the restrictions on sales of R18 were an infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights because they felt that the ECHR gave sufficient leeway to the Government to impose licensing restrictions for the protection of children (but surely only when such restrictions are total - there is no ban on mail order supply of 18 rated DVD's, cigarettes, alcohol, knives or legal drugs, all of which are supposedly unsuitable and/or dangerous for children).
The fact that importing R18s (and stronger material) via mail order from abroad makes a mockery of the law was accepted but not seen as a reason for removing domestic restrictions.
It's not all over yet though, as the case will be taken to the House of Lords, and the possible sanctioning of R18 material on subscription TVchannels will surely make this idiotic law untenable.
UPDATED MAY 25: The new Ofcom brodcasting rules have been announced and R18 material remains forbidden on TV. A bad couple of days for the adult industry and its supporters.

You can tell it's almost summer as Channel Four's Big Brother hype-machine goes into overdrive, telling us who amazingly outrageous the next batch of desperate-to-be-famous losers will be and their compliant chums in the tabloids already cranking up the non-stories in order to whip the Heat readers into a state of excitement as they watch people with lives just as dull as their own paraded around in a pathetic freak show.
This week, it was revealed that frequently naked BB5 (that's last year for those of you with lives) contestant Michelle Bass is to extend her fifteen minutes by parading her newly enlarged D-cups as a presenter for soft porn channel Television X. She's taking over from Abi Titmuss who - if I'm not mistaken - didn't actually whip 'em out during her stint on the channel. Will Bass bare all? And does anyone care?
Meanwhile, The Daily Mirror tells us that BB chiefs tried to persuade a porn star to go on the show and have sex on camera (as if they'd actually show it...). 'Buxom' Tina Harvey, 40 and the 'star' of British Housewives Fantasies claims "they said they were looking for an ordinary-looking woman who was willing to sexually wind-up the guys. They were basically asking me if I would have sex with the guys live on TV. They came up with the idea of hiding a secret dungeon in one of the rooms. When I told them that I had a life-size crucifix at home, they went potty and thought that would be a great idea to have as well."
So much for reality then. Tune in on Friday to see which group of social misfits have been selected for this year.

Male stripper Steve Parton is facing life in jail after being convicted of the murder of Birmingham housemate Nelvaughn Brade.
Parton murdered Brade, cut off his head, scattered his limbs hundreds of miles away and put the rest in his blender. Brade was eventually identified through a single fingerprint.
39 year old Parton had previously served a paltry nine months - less than he'd get for selling an uncertified DVD - for stabbing an ex-girlfriend in the stomach. A real charmer then..

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is continuing to sue Nevada strip club for unauthorised use of her image on their web site. She originally filed suit against the club last October when the site featured her photo next to various strippers, even though there was no suggestion that she endorsed or appeared at the club.
Shortly after the suit was filed, the club's marketing director Kent Wallace commented "She should have been flattered, as far as I'm concerned," before removing her images from their website. The case has now been transferred to a Nevada federal court, after the Spice House's owner claimed the nightspot had no links in California, where the case was originally due to be heard.
We were planning to illustrate this story with a photo of the publicity-shy actress, but given her fanatical devotion to protecting her image, we've gone instead for a Spice House dancer, who we're sure you'll agree is much more agreeable anyway!

North Carolina club Rick's Cabaret has come up with a novel way of retaliating against religious fanatics who have been holding protests outside the club since it opened on Thursday.
A group led by the improbably named Reverend Flip Benham of 'Operation Save America' has been staging noisy protests and using a bullhorn to harangue customers, but now has to compete with a decidedly more entertaining sideshow of rock music, burger bars and bikini-clad girls washing cars.
"Their antics sure don't seem to be slowing business down with hundreds of patrons enjoying the party inside Rick's since early Thursday night, but they are creating a nuisance," Langan told AVN. "Everybody is entitled to their opinions and to put on legal entertainment of their choice, and so are we. We just think girls washing cars in bikinis and great live music are lots more entertaining than somebody haranguing you with their personal religious views."

The Sun's website published this entirely gratuitous photo of perky lapdancer Jacqui Salmond streaking at St Andrews this week. No explanation of why she did it or if anyone gave a damn, but anything that livens up golf has to be good... we will, of course, endeavour - in the name of investigative journalism - to bring you any other shots we come across of streaking strippers.

Peterborough Today reports that a local councillor has been organising striptease shows at the local village hall to raise money in order to keep it open.
John Fish, who is vice chairman of the management committee, and responsible for running the community hall in Thorney Toll, near Peterborough denied that the shows were sleazy. He said: "There's nothing untoward about the show ° I've seen much worse on Channel Five."
He added that £118,000 is desperately needed to renovate the old hall, and that the shows have paid for a new roof, double glazing and the installation of toilets for the disabled.
Mr Fish said: "There's nothing perverted about the shows. It's no different to what you see in the film The Full Monty. I would invite the police chief himself to come along and watch the show. It's just a Chubby Brown-style comedian and two exotic dancers. It's not something I put on for personal gain, it's all for the hall. We just have a good laugh and enjoy ourselves."
The shows take place in February and October (suggesting that their exposé in May is the result of a particularly slow news day in Peterborough) and usually raise around £500.
Fish also organised a planned strip night at the Dog In A Doublet pub in North Bank, near Whittlesey. Police with nothing better to do raided the pub last Saturday after being tipped off that the event was taking place without a public entertainment licence. If you were a victim of crime that weekend in Peterborough, you might care to reflect on this use of supposedly over-stretched police resources.

We've said it before and doubtless will say it again: Scotland's political scene has become depressingly infected by the sort of anti-sex feminism that the rest of the country has long since confined to the dustbin of history. The latest slice of prudery is aimed at 33-year old porn classic Deep Throat, which was last week granted a theatrical R18 certificate by the BBFC, allowing it to be shown in licensed cinemas. It's been available uncut on DVD since 2000.
Edinburgh cinema the Cameo has applied for a license to show the movie alongside the new 18-rated documentary Inside Deep Throat. Cinema manager Ian Hoey says "We're planning to show Deep Throat as a companion piece to the documentary, which looks at the full cultural impact of the film and we feel it's appropriate to let the people of Edinburgh see them both and make their own minds up. By all accounts, the documentary gives the impression that no-one backs up Lovelace's claims (that she was forced to make the film against her will) and it was several years before she came out and made them. We have our own club here and it may be that we have to restrict attendance at the screening to our members, but I'll find out when we go up to the council next week."
Inevitably, Catherine Harper, spokeswoman and quite possibly sole member of Scottish Women Against Pornography - a fringe crackpot group who get way more attention than they deserve - weighed in with typically ill-informed comments. "Linda Lovelace was virtually a victim of slavery and it's well known that she had a gun virtually held to her head while the film was being made (actually that claim is nonsense and even Lovelace stated that no-one on the film set forced her to do anything). To suggest that this film has artistic or cultural value is claptrap. Are they seriously trying to say that the same people who will watch this will be the same as those who go to see the documentary? The council should not be allowing this film to be shown."
Equally ignorant Labour councillor Lorna Shiels, who was appointed to a Scottish Executive taskforce which will explore Scotland's lapdancing clubs and sex shops earlier this year, said: "I don't see any reason why the Cameo should be showing it and I totally agree with what Catherine Harper is saying. There can't be any artistic or cultural reason for screening this." So much for any hope that the taskforce will take an open-minded and unbiased look at the sex industry then...
Local councillors make their decision this week, after possibly (of course) watching the film. We can doubtless expect more moral hypocrisy from councils up and down the country in the next few weeks as other cities apply to show the film.

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Todays Guardian runs a repot on the increase in ATM's which charge for withdrawals. As part of the report from The Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs), it was revealed that they found one machine which scammed customers of £10 per transactions. The guilty owners were a lap dancing club in central London, but Apacs refused to name the exact location.
Well, we at Striporama are less sensitive about exposing such parasites. If any readers know which club this is, let us know andd they'll be named and shamed. After all, this is the sort of thing which gives the industry such a bad name and we condemn it whole-heartedly.

In a story that would make the scummiest tabloid hack envious, Contact Music today ran a report suggesting that Christopher Lee is embarrasssed at the release of a hardcore movie which he inadvertently appeared in. To quote the story:
"Legendary actor Christopher Lee's sordid movie past is coming back to haunt him - with the DVD release of a 1970 hardcore porn film he appeared in. Despite a long and distinguished career in the big screen industry, Lee naively agreed to a small role in EUGENIE: THE STORY OF HER JOURNEY INTO PERVERSION - not realising the finished product would be an explicit adult film featuring anal sex scenes."
Well, full marks to the unnamed hack for imagination, but let's get real: Eugenie is Jesus Franco's acclaimed, lounge-erotica take on De Sade, shot in 1969 and today barely even qualifying as soft porn, let alone hardcore. You can check our review here - we clearly missed the 'anal sex scenes'.
What's even more laughable is the fact that the DVD was released in 2003, and has Lee participating in the accompanying featurette - so much for his shame then.

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It what would seem to be a cynical publicity stunt for both channel and band, it was reported today that MTV had 'banned' Basement Jaxx's new video which features a lookalike for the Queen groping a lapdancer.
However, this non-story soon fizzles out when it becomes clear than the video hasn't been banned at all, simply restricted to evening play. In fact, a spokeswoman stated that MTV "never bans videos" (true, they just refuse to play them) but "had to adhere to Ofcom regulations".
The video for U Don't Know Me - from a band who we can charitably say are better known for their visuals than their music - features 'a lookalike Queen Elizabeth II drinking, fighting and fleeing police during a night out in London's Soho'. Yawn...

As reported in The Daily Post, prudish busybodies have been ripping down banners and posters advertising tomorrow's football club fundraising "ladies only" cabaret night at Y Ganolfan, the community centre overlooking the harbour in Porthmadog. Banners have been smashed and one even tossed into the sea.
A similar show in December - featuring a cast of four male strippers and a drag queen called Julie - attracted 200 screaming women and raised £1,000. Organisers are hoping for a big turnout again on Saturday.
Club chairman Phil Jones said: "It is being organised by a group of friends of the club and is really back by popular demand after last December's success. It didn't cause any problem or offence then so I just can't understand what's going on now. If people object and don't like it they don't have to come along to the show. Let's be honest, we are in the 21st century and it is just a bit of fun. I have heard it isn't suitable for youngsters but it is only open to those over 18." He added: "Because lots of the posters and banners have been vandalised and taken down people assumed the show had been cancelled. "That's just not the case. It is definitely going ahead. I can guarantee that 100%."
UPDATED: the show eventually was a flop selling just 50 tickets, probably becaue of the campaign of intimidation.

British readers who have long fantasised about seeing porn legends Ron Jeremy and Cicciolina appearing alongside Keith Harris and Orville will be thrilled to know that all three have joined the cast of desperate 'celebrities' on Channel Five reality show The Farm, which began last night.
The porn icons and the redundant ventriloquist (and his dummy) join a bizarre mix of has-beens, never-weres and reality show regulars, including Dallas star Charlene Tilton, Public Enemy's Flavor Flav, a couple of models and some bloke who's entire claim to fame seems to be the fact that he used to shag some skanky looking woman from Eastenders. Over the next few weeks they'll try to relaunch their careers by molesting animals and arguing a lot. Naturally, we say vote for Ronnie!
Meanwhile, despite the arresting presence of Playmate Victoria Silvstedt, ITV's Celebrity Wrestling has been cancelled after spectacularly losing the ratings battle with Dr Who. The remaining episodes will be replaced with movies. We could have predicted this: the show was little more than a poor-man's Gladiators, notably lacking in any actual wrestling. If they'd had the women wrestling in jello and tearing each others clothes off, it might have worked...