Plans to release toy dolls of burlesque stars turned pop divas The Pussycat Dolls have been abandoned after complaints from moralists.
Toy company Hasbro were intending to make dolls based on the group, presumably to combat the popularity of the street-wise Bratz dolls which seemingly have taken over the hearts and minds of pre-teens the world over. However, small but vocal right wing groups wrote to the firm to state their shock at the idea.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Dads and Daughters started a campaign which resulted in 2,000 letters and e-mails being sent to Hasbro.
Spokesman Josh Golin said: "Parents were instantly upset about it. They're scantily clad. Their lyrics are sexual."
Whose, the Dolls or the parents? Make yourself coherent, asshole.
Of course, the afore-metioned Bratz are also scantily clad, as are the pop idols beloved of little girls. Does anyone think these dolls would have any detrimental effect? If you don't approve of them, then don't buy them.
There is, of course, no sign of these groups protesting about Iraq War inspired toys and games...

Plans to introduce lap dancing at Shakers night club in Burnham-On-Sea have this week been turned down by a licensing panel.
Shakers had requested a variation to its licence in order to open until 4am on Fridays and Saturdays, and introduce 'occasional' lap dancing.
But at a meeting of Sedgemoor District Council's licensing panel on May 24th, the committee rejected the application.
Town councillors had discussed the plan at their planning meeting in April - and said they were concerned about noise and nuisance problems in the area. Yeah, right.
Shakers also wanted to allow the re-entry of clubbers into the club after midnight in anticipation of the smoking ban. Under the proposal, clubbers would be able to leave the building, have a smoke and get back in to the club, but this prompted concerns from local residents about noise in the early hours.

Paisley's first lap-dancing club has opened for business, and the pathetic prudes have been moaning.
Club Tiger Lily, in Causeyside Street, opened today, and features topless dancers, but no full nudity
The bigots were quick to complain. Rosemary Davidson, assistant pastor at the nearby St Matthew's Church of the Nazarene said "I am very concerned about this club and I would encourage people not to go there. The sort of thing that will be taking place there is not in line with the Christian values we wish to promote."
Well, perhaps not, but not everyone is a Christian, and why should they have to follow your rules?
Meanwhile, members of the Paisley and District Evangelical Alliance - a group of local churches working together to spoil everyone else's fun - fear the club will do untold damage to the town's reputation. Yeah, because Paisley is so famous...
Paisley South MSP Hugh Henry is among those who are calling on locals to boycott the club, ranting "the opening of this club is a sad day for Paisley. There is no place in this town for so-called entertainment which demeans and degrades women."
Paisley North MSP Wendy Alexander said she is quietly confident the club will not last long in the town. "I think the decent, law-abiding folk of Paisley won't want to bother with this sort of late-night pursuit. It is not what the town centre needs."
So, when the club is a success, then presumably she'll shut up and admit that her views are not representative of the general publics? We doubt it.

To the surprise of no-one, it turns out in amongst the misfits, chavscum, fame junkies and assorted losers who make up the cast of Big Brother this year is a porn star.
Lea Walker, a 35 year old from Nottingham already looked like every cliched image of a porn starlet, with her excessive surgery (she claims to have the biggest boobs in Britain, and why should we bother arguing?) but initially kept her hardcore career a secret. But perhaps realising that the jig was up (do you really think BB contestants are not fed instructions from ratings-hungry producers?) with tabloid hacks on her trail, she confessed all this week.
Naturally, her spectaularly misnamed movie Casting Cuties Volume 4 - made by Cathy Barry's company, so you can imagine the standard - is about to be released on DVD and can already be viewed online - check it out here. You can download stills here.

A district nurse has been cleared of indecent exposure after sunbathing naked in her back garden - despite being branded andabnormal exhibitionist by the prosecution.
55 year old Lynett Burgess, from Llandyfriog in Wales, was filmed by her thoroughly unpleasant sounding neighbour Morien Jones in July 2005.
Jones told magistrates: "I was renovating the back of my home with a local builder when Ms Burgess appeared in her garden. She walked back and fore completely naked - I went to get my video camera to record the incident."
Which suggests to us that he is some sort of voyeur - isn't that illegal? But after capturing enough footage, he then went to the police.
"I have been extremely shaken by this" the easily shocked Jones continued. "It has been very upsetting and worrying. I don't want to bring up my children in such an environment."
The film was shown to magistrates who were asked to decide whether Ms Burgess had offended anyone.
It wasn't just Jones and the police who over-reacted though. Prosecutor Maggie Hughes said sunbathing nude "could be grossly offensive to normal decent persons in society". Really? It all depends on who you think of as 'normal' and 'decent' I suppose. The likes of Jones, rushing for their video cameras are the first sign of bare flesh, perhaps.
She asked Burgess: "What kind of kick do you get from this behaviour?"
Burgess sensibly replied: "I take exception to the word kick and find you prudish", to which the prosecuter outrageously responded "I may be prudish but it's not normal for people to sunbathe in the nude."
Magistrates cleared Burgess of indecent exposure.
Trevor Emberton, chairman of Cardigan magistrates, told her: "You have admitted sunbathing naked from time to time and that this has become a normal pattern.We do not accept you intended to cause harm or distress and therefore find you not guilty."
Burgess told the BBC: "I'm glad to get this over and done with. I intend moving away from the area and getting on with my life and occupation. I've lived more or less as a hermit since this blew up. It has caused me acute anxiety and I now want to put it behind me."

The BBC has scrapped plans for a celebrity pole dancing show after fatuous protests from women's groups.
TV star Zoe Ball had signed up to take part in the one-off programme for Sport Relief, while newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky and GMTV's Fiona Phillips had also been linked to the show, intended as a spoof version of Strictly Come Dancing. But the idea provoked outrage among humourless women's rights campaigners.
Denise Marshall of the Poppy Project, a Home Office-funded support group for women trafficked into prostitution, said "despite celebrity advocates promoting pole dancing as harmless fun, we must not forget that it has inextricable links to the sexual exploitation of women."
Well, actuallly Denise, no it doesn't, and it's sad that tax payers have to fund your misguided, bigoted views. Perhaps the more sensible members of society ought to start complaining about such prudery more.
That said, does anyone really want to see Zoe Ball pole dancing? No, thought not...

In a wonderful decision that slaps the prudes right where it hurts them most, the city of San Bernardino is being made to pay a strip club $1.4 million for losses the venue suffered when officials tried to shut it down.
A state appellate court affirmed a jury's decision to award the damages to the all-nude Flesh Club.
The club's owner's attorney Roger Jon Diamond said the city is also liable for interest on the verdict, as well as attorney's fees and interest on the attorney's fees.
The appellate court already had upheld a trial court's ruling that the zoning ordinance the city used to prohibit nude dancing at the club from 1995 to 1999 was unconstitutional.
But the city had argued that it was immune from paying for the club's lost profits.

Dita Von Teese continues to be the tabloid's darling, it seems.
The latest inane reports come from The Sun, who breathlessly tell us that she mainatins her trim figure by- gasp! - swimming. Boy oh boy, why has no-one thought of that before?
Dita revealed all at the launch of the new Audi TT in London last week, where she performed for an audience of C-listers s including actor Colin Salmon, former Casualty star Sarah Manners and model Jasmine Guinness.
"I do lots and lots of swimming every day. It's one of the best forms of exercise," she said.
"But I've been wearing corsets since I was a teenager. I can get it down to 16 inches now."
Meanwhile, it's also been reported that she is set to strip at the Beckhams’ World Cup party.
Abreathless tabloid source said: "The party has a naughty theme and Victoria and David feel Dita will be perfect. She's known for her outlandish routines so guests can expect a few whips to be flying around."
Not savagely enough, we fear though.
The lavish ball is being held at King and Queen Chav's gaudy mansion in Hertfordshire, known as Beckingham Palace.
Guests will include Liz Hurley, Tom Cruise, Robbie Williams and James Brown. Sounds truly awful...

Those of you wondering why Striporama has been lacking updates of late, fear not. We'd simply been distracted with organising the second Club Mondo, as well as the inanities of daily life (a soul-destroying job for one).
You can read all about Club Mondo on its own site - suffice to say that it was a cracking night, already hailed as the best night out in Nottingham... and who are we to disagree? Look out for new dates soon!
Meanwhile, back to work on Striporama proper...

Scotland's strippers and lap dancers arefighting back against the proposals to crack down on their trade.
A group of dancers have written to the Scottish Executive local government minister Tom McCabe opposing plans for one-metre 'no-touch' zones around performers and for bans on private dances within clubs.
The dancers rightly believe that the clubs will become so highly restricted that lap-dancing and stripping will be driven underground, resulting in dancers runninmg the risk of being attacked or raped - precisely the dangers that the proposals claim to be be seeking to prevent.
Stripper Veronica Deneuve has written a 17-page submission to ministers and MSPs calling for a number of recommendations by the Scottish Executive's Adult Entertainment Working Group, which last month published its report to ministers, to be scrapped.
She said: "The report has, however understandably and for the best of motives, misunderstood some of the issues and got some of the outcomes badly wrong.
"It has some recommendations that are actively dangerous to the dancers and will create and exacerbate the harms that the group was trying to prevent.
"Agents and escort agencies will get more heavily involved; pimping will become a growth industry.
"It will be a rapist's dream environment. The bad news is that the sharks are already circling, and have been since the review started last year, trying to lure dancers into other things."
Deneuve, who declined to give her real name in case it might cause problems for her in her day job, told Scotland on Sunday: "I have genuine concerns that these rules will drive girls into the illegal business where they no longer have the protection of working in a proper club.
"The private dancing in booths is where they make the real money. If they can't do it in a club then they will do it somewhere else, and it will be more dangerous."
She added: "In a way, we're flattered by the attention. But don't they have anything better to do or care about?
"What about the NHS and the Scottish economy for example? That's just two things. Do they really need to regulate something which right now basically works?"
The one-sided and puritanical working report last month said that intimate lap-dancing should effectively be banned in Scotland, with dancers having to perform at least one metre from their customers. It also called for a ban on all private booths in lap-dancing bars and clubs to - insultingly - reduce the risks of prostitution.
The group said there should be a new licensing regime for lap-dancing, pole-dancing, stripping and other forms of live adult entertainment. The report also said dancers should not be allowed to touch themselves (a difficult thing for them to do if they are undresssing I'd say), and set out a graphic list of simulated sex acts it says should be banned. As we have reported before on Striporama, the methods used to gather the 'evidence' in the report was highly dubious and the members of the working group were not above lying nabout what happened in strip clubs. Naturally, most of the women working in the industry were not consulted, and those who said that they enjoyed their work were dismissed.
A spokesman for the Executive - missing the point entirely - said: "Obviously ministers and officials will read any letter they receive, but the people to make views known to were the working groups, who have spent time gathering evidence and opinions.
"The minister will now be considering the report. Nothing has been decided yet."
And if you believe that, you'll believe anything...
Check out Veronica's excellent blog for more information.

Billboard magazine this week reported that strip clubs in America are becoiming increasingly important in helping break new hip hop artists and records.
Tighter radio playlists mean it's harder than ever to break a track on the radio, and regular dance clubs play it safe. At strip clubs, DJs are able to play full tracks and can take a chance on underground and unproven material.
Interscope urban promotion executive Kevin Black says. "When we work records, we work lifestyle venues like barbershops, beauty shops, skating rinks, bowling alleys - anything with a culture to it. And strip clubs fall into that category."
As an aside to this, Billboard also reports a few stats which demolish the cliched media image of the strip club.
The magazine reports that at Sue's Rendezvous in New York, DJ Carl Blaze of New York's top-rated R&B/hip-hop station Power 105.1 plays to a smartly dressed crowd of men and women.
"It's just another night out for us," one young woman at Sue's told Billboard. "Great music - and this is where the men are."
Hardly the image the British news media would have you believe...