The Erotika expo in Budapest opens today and runs through the weekend.
This year, one of the biggest draws for visitors will be the attempt on Friday at 4pm to set a Guinness record for a strip-tease marathon. "Judy Nero and Linda Racz will be stripping for four whole hours, taking turns to do 30 minute sets," said organiser Nandor Strausz.
"Currently there is no record for the longest striptease performance, so we will be the first to claim this," Judy Nero told The Budapest Times. "Since this is the tenth exhibition, we thought we would add something to the jubilee atmosphere. Some people have criticised us, but I donØt know why this would hurt anyone. Everybody would like to have a Guinness record, and my field is erotica," she continued, sadly unaware that the prudes who run the Guiness Book of Records will almost certainly not chose to acknowledge the result.
American porn actress Brittney Skye (pictured) will also perform on stage all three evenings, there will also be a ™Porno TheatreÓ courtesy of Hungarian actress and director Deborah Valentine and Chippendale strip shows and transvestite acts are also on the programme.

Endearingly eccentric ex-stripper, Playboy Playmate and Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith is to have her long legal battle over her husband's estate heard next year by The Supreme Court.
Smith has been fighting for her $474 million inheritance with the family of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who she married when he was 89 and she was 26.
Smith, who was quite sexy before she could afford to fill her fridge and went a bit barmy, is seen by most as the Queen of the Gold-diggers. But frankly, if she had to have sex with Marshall just once, she's surely earned her money. And the entertainment her drunken, whacked out antics have given the world since are also worth every penny. We wish her luck...

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Pathetic pastors in the bahamas have demanded a government crack down on facilities that promote stripping.
Pastor Cedric Moss of Kingdom Life World Outreach Centre said a ruling handed down by Magistrate Renee McKay in favour of Russian dancers reveals serious weaknesses in the law.
On September 21, six Russian dancers, their manager and six staff members of the Butterfly Club, appeared on charges ranging from indecent behaviour to abetting indecent behavior. The magistrate ruled that the prosecution did not prove a case against them and acquitted them all.
The pastors suggested that the court proceedings were unfair because the dancers were represented by a prominent attorney, Wayne Munroe, and the prosecution was represented by a police officer who does not necessarily have any legal training. So, because the cops are a bit thick, the defendants shouldn't be allowed competent lawyers? The mind boggles...
Moss ranted "These police officers are pitted against professional lawyers who clearly have an unfair advantage because of their years of legal training. Therefore, in the interest of justice and fair play, we will be calling on the attorney general and The Bahamas Bar Council to work together to discontinue this practice."
The group of five pastors expressed concerns over the proliferation of clubs, events and activities that are built around commercial sexual entertainment. Pastor Moss said - without any evidence to back up his claims - that these types of activities lead to prostitution and further the degradation and exploitation of women and young girls, while encouraging violence and abuse towards them.
The pastors continued "We are convinced that in spite of the degree to which our national moral standards have fallen, the majority in our country are morally minded people who do not support the further pollution of our nationØs moral water table by operations and activities like those of the Butterfly Club. We believe that it is incumbent upon the government and all decent minded, law abiding citizens in all spheres of society to actively do all they can to resist the efforts of a few persons who are driven by financial greed, who lack a moral compass and any regard for the dignity of women and sexuality to continue to further erode the moral fabric of our nation."
We suggest that any decent minded citizens instead resist the efforts of a small numbet of religious zealots to enforce their narrow moral viewpoint on others.

As she is still grabbing headlines with her alleged cocaine habit (well, she's shagging Pete Doherty - you'd need to be off your face to put up with him), it seems appropriate to post a link to a video of her performance in the White Stripe's I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (an problem which doesn't seem to have affected most men watching the clip...). Check it out here:
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We've bashed religious types here on Striporama with regularity, but here's a story about a vicar who offers hope for Christianity.
Reverend Kenny Macaulay is under investigation by po-faced leaders of the Scottish Episcopal Church after a tabloid revealed that he's been buying bondage equipment and adult videos on eBay.
A church spokesman said: "The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway is presently on holiday but he will be fully briefed on his return and it will be for him to decide what action to take from there. Any allegations are taken seriously and will be looked into."
It should be pointed out to the church leaders that Macauley hasn't broken any laws with his purchase of a wall-mounted bondage cross, a bondage table and "an explicit amateur porn video which features 50 couples having sex."
A refreshingly unrepentant Macaulay told the Daily Record: "I have bought fetish items from the internet - a few novelty goods. I have the bondage table in my garden actually, it's a bit of fun. I'm not sure about the porn video. My girlfriend Linda might have bought that one."
He added: "I think I have raised a few eyebrows in this town. People don't like the fact that I'm getting married again when I'm divorced - and so is Linda. But we're a modern couple and we just enjoy a laugh."

A T-shirt boasting about Oregon strip clubs has become a best seller for a major retailer. The $18 T-shirt features the slogan "Come for the fishing. Stay for the strip clubs" and has become the most sought among 50 state-themed shirts sold by Hot Topic.
Oregon has 93 strip clubs ß second only to West Virginia's 53 clubs. Todd Davidson, chief executive for the state's tourism board commented "it starts by encouraging people to come for the fishing, and that's year-round. I guess the other thing isn't seasonal either.''

A court in southwestern Sichuan province, China this week sentenced a hotel manager and four accomplices to jail terms of eight months to 12 years for providing prostitutes next to the Martyrs' Mausoleum. The hotel manager organised sexual services and striptease performances.
China has declared 2005 the year of Red Tourism, promoting travels to sites where Communist heroes were born, lived or fought. The mausoleum stands as tribute to 64 people who died for the revolutionary cause since 1911, when China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing, was overthrown.

Nurses, beer and video cameras - a deadly combination? Well, it seems so.
A nurse and two cameramen were arrested last week at the MunichOktoberfest for shooting a porn film on the city's famous big wheel.
The unnamed 21-year-old registered nurse and her two associates were spotted 'filming sexual acts' by three Italian tourists in another carriage of the ride. The humourless tourists alerted authorities, who arrested the nurse and the filmmakers upon the completion of their 'ride'.
Munich policestated: "The trio were spotted in the carriage with filming equipment. "The 21-year-old suddenly disrobed and produced a sex toy that she began to use while the other two filmed her."
The three have been charged with public indecency.

Vietnamese Police raided a Ho Chi Minh City restaurant on thursday for illegally offering karaoke services and caught several girls in 'various stages of nudity' stripping in front of male patrons.
In Huong Nguyen restaurant on 239 Tran Hung Dao Street, they caught six waitresses performing a striptease, with dozens of other girls waiting for their turns to entertain guests.
A local official said it had been fined six times before for various violations including organization of prostitution.

As we reported earlier this month, Sutton's Conservative councillors were outraged when a local club was granted a license to feature topless performers. And so they are determined to stop a planned lapdancing venue from also opening. Andd they are prepared to break all the rules to do so.
Equipped with megaphones and trestle tables, the Conservatives took to Sutton High Street for three weekends in a row and surveyed nearly 1,000 shoppers on the plans for a new club. After collating the results, the Tories said 93 per cent of respondents were against a lap dancing club being allowed in town. But they didn't say how the respondents were questioned or selected - we imagine that only those who would be likely to object were attracted to the table, and that the results are useless.
What's more, the Liberal Democrats claim the Tories risk of "fettering their judgement" when the application comes to committee and may not be able to vote on the scheme. Councillor for planning Leslie Coman said the Conservatives had misunderstood their responsibilities in the planning process and that all applications had the right to be heard fairly. She also questioned whether the council's monitoring officer would need to look at the Conservatives' activities to see if they ran the risk of being excluded from determining the fate of the application altogether.
To "fetter your judgement" means to have appeared to have made up your mind about a planning matter before all sides are heard. A council which comes to a decision but is shown to have fettered judgement risks legal proceedings. Let's hope the club owners do just that should their application fail.

Public nudity is allegedly illegal, but not - it seems - it it is 'art'. Helen Flynn has been posing in the window of Galway's Bold Art Gallery as Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love, since Monday.
For five hours a day, Helen has been standing still in the gallery window on MerchantØs Road, 'dressed' (if that's the word) as BotticelliØsfamous painting of the Birth of Venus.
Last year, she posed as a mermaid in the same window, as part of the Galway International Oyster Festival.
Gallery Proprietor Hazel Hendy said she was so delighted with the success of last yearØs mermaid window display that she decided to do it again for the 51st Oyster Festival.
"Last year we pushed the boat out with mermaids, so this year I thought that Galway was ready to stretch it further. We wanted to put the relationship with the Oyster Festival with something creative and artistic," she said.
Performance Artist Helen said "the feedback is fabulous already. I'm just really enjoying it. I'm really excited about it. I'm the only liberated one - everyone out there is in a box. The audience entertains me," she told the Galway Independent.
Helen claims her performance will encourage women to stop worrying about their size. "I've put on about two stone because I fell in love and I was going out for dinner every night of the week. But I think I fairly represent a Renaissance woman. Bring back the curves!"

A poll has revealed that for many students, working as strippers, lap-dancers or in other areas of the sex industry is a favoured way of making money.
The online poll of 3,000 freshers by internet insurer Cover4students found that more students are willing to strip than wait on tables in a restaurant or work on a Saturday in a shop. Only bar work and chugging ° street selling monthly charity donations ° proved more attractive options.
This suggests that teenagers have a sensible view of the erotic dancing - namely that it is a harmless, potentially lucrative way of making money, and less soul-destroying than sitting behind a checkout all weekend.
However, there are still plenty of old-school anti-porn feminists out there in the world of higher education, willing to spout cliched nonsense without having the world experience or knowledge to know what they are talking about. Leeds University Union's communication officer Erin McFeely said: "I cannot understand why women would actually choose to do this but would surmise it is because they are put in a position where they have to earn money to finance their studies. As a union we would never encourage women to do this. This survey does not look at why women feel they have to get a job like this. There are a lot of negative factors surrounding lap dancing jobs and we would encourage students with money problems to contact the union."

After the devastation of Hurrican Katrina, New Orleans is taking the first steps back into normality - with the opening of strip clubs.
Deja Vu, on Bourbon Street, is open for business, even amongst the wreckage, rotting garbage and corpses that have been seen across the world on news reports. The clients are mostly police officers, National Guard soldiers and engineering contractors - there are few other people in the city.
Deja Vu manager Jason Mohney claims that the club probably lost $350,000 during the three weeks it was closed following the disaster. Other venues are also planning to reopen soon, cementing New Orleans reputation as a liberated party town.
Meanwhile, the producers of the famous Girls Gone Wild series - which has often featured footage from New Orleans' Mardi Gras - is planning to donate any money made from the sale of DVD's shot in the city to the relief fund.

Four women arrested after going topless on a street in Moravia, New York last month say they didn't break any laws and want the charges against them dropped.
The women are charged with exposure. If convicted of the violation they each face 15 days in jail and/or a $250 fine.
Defence attorney Charles Marangola said he's filed a motion to dismiss the case, maintaining that a 1992 state Court of Appeals decision allows women to go topless anywhere a man can.
"This thing should be dismissed outright," he said. "But if it isn't and these young ladies are found guilty at a trial ... if we have to go to the Court of Appeals, we will."
Cayuga County Assistant District Attorney Charles Thomas said his office isn't convinced that the 1992 ruling gives blanket permission for women to go topless, although the wording of the law seems pretty straight-forward.
Carol Clarke, 54, Barbara Crumb, 61, Claudia Kellersch, 40, and Madeleine McPherson, 40 were arrested on Aug. 11 outside a grocery store.

One of the contestants on the hit show The Apprentice is a former stripper.
Alla Wartenberg, 31, had previously appeared in court during a murder trial which centered around the Palomino Club in Las Vegas, where she worked as a $40 a throw lapdancer under the names Alla Kosova and Extasy.
The Russian dancer had a "pretty platonic relationship" with a regular named Robert Acremant, who paid Wartenberg $500 to $1,500 for an evening of dances and conversation. That's a lot of dances!
Acremant was later convicted of killing three people in two botched robberies, allegedly to get cash to spend on Wartenberg. He was sentenced to death in both cases and is imprisoned in Oregon.

Officials in Kokomo, Indiana are considering whether a strip club near a clinic operated by a Roman Catholic order violates a city ordinance that forbids adult businesses from locating within 500 feet of a place of worship.
St. Joseph Hospital's MedOne have asked the city to stop topless dancing at the neighbouring Ultimate Place 2 B.
Sister Catherine Kelly said that the order's clinics are considered ministries. By whom, she didn't elaborate.
"MedOne is part of the Roman Catholic identity of St. Joseph Hospital, so when you speak about a church, you can define it in many ways," Kelly said. "A church can be a building, and it can also be an organization of ministries that provide for the spiritual well-being of people ... for me the whole sense of 'church' is much broader than the four walls in which you go to worship." Which sounds like an excuse to extend the already dubious law to cover just about everywhere...
The club is owned by Dan Dumoulin Jr., who also runs three other topless nightclubs in the city.
Moralising religious nut Mayor Matt McKillip recently sent an e-mail to area pastors and residents asking them to pray for Dumoulin. "I ask all of you and your congregants to pray for the owner of these establishments, and for our efforts to keep these establishments from hurting our quality of life," the e-mail said. I wonder if he also offered prayers for gun shop owners?

Birmingham's biggest private landowner wants to restrict the activities of a lapdancing club - in one of its own properties.
Spearmint Rhino wants to open and serve alcohol until 6am seven days a week. Calthorpe Estates, who owns thevenue, claims this will create conflict between the club and the "high quality" Five Ways business district. Clearly they are unaware of the type of custoimers lapdancing clubs attract!
The company is powerless to act because a 36-year lease it granted to Spearmint Rhino in 1990 does not allow the landlord to prevent the extension of opening hours. So they should just shut up. But no... instead they are appealing to Birmingham City Council to refuse Spearmint Rhino's application to open between 10am and 6am Monday to Sunday.
In a letter to the licensing sub- committee Calthorpe Estates commercial managers describe the area of Hagley Road around Spearmint Rhino as a "vomit-stained crime black spot". Which makes it sound pretty down-market to begin with.
A spokesman for Spearmint Rhino said an original application to remain open 24 hours a day had already been scaled back to 10am-6am. It was the club's intention not to allow people to be admitted after 4am.

Honey Bruce Friedman, former wife of legendary comedian Lenny Bruce, has died aged 78.
The former stripper and nightclub performer died on Monday in Honolulu after a long illness.
Born Harriett Jolliff, she grew up in Detroit, before running away from home as a teenager. At 17, she found herself serving a year in a state prison. She later joined a carnival, where she developed a taste for show business and and became an exotic dancer. . Honey was stripping under the name 'Hot Honey Harlowe' when she and Bruce met in Baltimore. They married in 1951.
The pair later performed parodies of movies like The Bride of Frankenstein together on stage They had a daughter, Kitty, but the marriage ended in 1957 under the strain of their joint heroin addiction. Bruce died in 1966 of an overdose.
When Honey's 1977 book Honey: The Life and Loves of Lenny's Shady Lady was published, she had been clean for more than seven years after a 16-year addiction.
In 2003, Friedman was one of the many people who signed a succeeful petition for New York Governor George Pataki to give Lenny Bruce a posthumous pardon for his obscenity conviction.
Friedman is survived by her husband, Jeffrey Friedman, and her daughter.

Last month, we reported that Olga Rodioniva, model and wife of a Russian tycoon, was suing the Sunday Times for libel after they reported that she was to star in a soft porn film. At the time, we were doubtful that the case would succeed, given that Rodioniva had modelled for the likes of Penthouse... but we were wrong.
The Sunday Times has printed the following:
Corrections - Olga Rodionova: Our article (World News, July 31) wrongly stated that Olga Rodionova was to star in a ™soft porn filmÓ. In fact Lift, which is due be released next year, is a thriller, directed by a well known Russian.
And apparently the newspaper will have to pay out for their claim too, presumably as an out-of-court settlement.
Hope that clears everything up.

A federal judge has ruled that Seattle must end its moratorium on licenses for new strip clubs.
U.S. District Judge James Robart condemned the city authorities for continually extending the moratorium first adopted in 1988 on the grounds that it had not yet adopted a new land-use policy, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
"The city's unhampered authority to continue extending the moratorium and delaying the implementation of new regulations evidences its unbridled discretion to limit erotic dancing, a protected form of free speech," Robart said.
The city has decided against appealing the ruling, and instead will fight adult entertainment clubs by pushing for a ban on lap dancing aimed at cutting their profits. A proposed ordinance that would require dancers to remain at least 4 feet away from their customers has many strippers up in arms because they fear lower tips.

Pompous holiday-makers have reacted with hilarious horror at the prospect of lapdancing coming to the sleepy town where they like to vacation.
Heacham's Silver Sands Beach Club has been given persmission to hold 'adult entertainment' nights with kissagrams, pole-dancers and strippers. But caravan owners who don't actually live locally but like to holiday near the venue are 'distraught'.
"It will attract all the wrong people, this is not Thailand," said one dementedly misguided woman, who understandably chose to remain anonymous.
Moaners from the Putting Green Caravan Park claim families on holiday will be disturbed by noise from the club and the "unruly" behaviour of revellers. One caravan owner said: "Extension of opening hours will only encourage the yob culture and fighting that inevitably go hand-in-hand." My own experience of caravan sites is that they attract enough yobs, oafs and chavs without outside help. Notably, no actual residents of Heacham saw fit to object to the club's plans.
North-West Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham said the plans would drag Heacham downmarket - presumably he believes it currently has a global reputation to uphold.
"It is a very small-scale resort with a very established clientele and I wouldn't imagine there would be the demand for this sort of adult entertainment," he said to the local paper. Of course, if there is no demand, he has little to worry about as the club would rapidly drop all such performances once they failed to make money.
The Club management said: "It is no more than any other pub is doing. The pole-dancing pole is just there for the customers to dance round at night (!!!). It's just for the craic."
However, on their licensing application the club has asked for permission to host 'semi-nude dancing' and 'lap-dancing' nights - presumably not performed by tipsy customers. The adult evenings would be held irregularly, and Silver Sands has promised to put up signs outside the venue to warn visitors if they are on. The club will specify 'adults only' in all advertising of the events.

Nudity is completely harmless, but some people seem to still feel that they have the right to impose their own moral standards on the rest of us... and a large number of them seem to be ploce officers, magistrates and politicians.
Naked Rambler Steven Gough has been jailed for two weeks after being found guilty of breach of the peace in Midlothian. He was convicted of exposing himself, causing fear and alarm and distracting drivers on the A701 on 1 September.
Just who is caused 'fear and alarm' by the sight of a naked man? Well, 21 year old postman William Lister for one. Clearly a man who has led a sheltered life, Lister claimed to have been "alarmed and shocked" by Gough and his girlfriend Melanie Roberts walking naked. And the local Sheriff clearly agreed.
Sheriff Kenneth MacIver told him: "I have no doubt in my mind that walking naked through a Scottish town and along a busy road is not something which the Scottish public should be expected to deal with." He claimed - without any supporting evidence - that people were likely to be "upset, alarmed or offended" by public nudity.
More likely amused, we'd say... unless they were Scottish coppers, one of whom told the court that he personally found nudity "distasteful". A case for the psychiatrists, we suspect - presumably he undresses in the dark and showers in his underwear.

For reasons best known to themselves, Striporama's web hosts seem to be rejigging their system to become much more inefficient than before, which not only means that we can't cheack our stats or have emails answered, but also that our email address is malfunctioning, bouncing a 'box full' message to anyone who contacts us.
Until we resolve this, we'd ask you to contact us at info@luridfilms.co.uk.

Bar girls from Mumbai (aka Bombay) , put out of work by Home Minister R R Patil's controversial ban on dance bars, have found new employment in faraway Bihar - as strippers.
With the state set for elections for the second time in a year, politicians have been organising strip shows to lure voters. Entire villages are treated to a night of naked, alcohol-fuelled revelry.
"Many candidates use strip shows to keep voters happy and the morale of party workers high," said a former intelligence official. Some politicians also rent guesthouses to serve as makeshift brothels. Sounds the ideal way for British politicians to arrest declining vote counts too!
Show promoter Shravan Paswan, said, "I have around 230 bar dancers. They are so desperate to make money that they are willing to do all kinds of shows. I have personally arranged for 125 dancers from bars in Mumbai, Pune and Dhule for a local political party that organises strip shows to lure voters."
They usually begin with girls dancing to hit Bollywood tracks, after which local music is played and the girls begin to strip.

San Antonio's controversial Human Display Law, finally took effect today after three yearsof legal challenges. But even as the law takes effect, the city and the six largest topless clubs still can't agree over their interpretation of the law.
Undre the new rules, topless dancers cannot come within three feet of customers, effectively banning lap dancing, which is how the strippers - who pay the clubs to work there - make their money.
The law also specifies that 'semi nude' dancers must pay a fee to the city and wear a badge, specifies lighting at the clubs, and controls whether or not private rooms can be operated.
Strip club attorney Jim DeeGear says that by putting on nipple pasties, dancers are no longer be 'semi nude' and therefore not covered by the new law. The question will be whether the city agrees.
DeeGear says the law is clear. "If the nipple and the (area around the nipple) are exposed, you are considered semi nude and covered by this law. If they are not exposed, it is clear that you are not semi nude and are not covered by the law."
However, Assistant City Attorney Martha Sepeda disagrees. She says full tops, and not just 'pasties' will be needed to comply with the law. But she fails to explain just how much cleavage CAN be shown before it is classed as 'semi-nudity'. Are string bikini's okay? See-through, low-cut bras? How full does a 'full top' need to be? It all sounds a mess to us.
Still, Sepeda vows that the city will vigorously enforce the new law and will charge those who violate it.
DeeGear says his clients are committed to following the law. "They're unhappy with the way that things have changed, but they have resigned themselves to the fact that they want peace."

Chester is to finally get its first lapdancing venue.
The Platinum Lounge will host the club after a £250,000 project to 'sympathetically' refurbish the interior of the listed building is completed, with the opening scheduled for the beginning of November.
Businessman Philip Archer-Jones, who is behind the venture, said: "I think Chester is ready for it. Every major city or town has got one. When a table top dancing club opened in an upstairs room of a Chester pub five years ago there was a furore. But when plans for Platinum Lounge were unveiled earlier this year the reaction was low key. Even residents who live near the venue were indifferent.
" I think it's becoming more acceptable because it's gone mainstream. It's only the perception in some people's minds that makes them think it's seedy. I was talking to a group of solicitors the other week and they said 'It's just a bit of fun'."
Some would-be performers have already dropped off their CVs at the Bridge Street Row premises, and male dancers have not been ruled out for the future.
Nigel Woodhouse, 37, who will manage the venue, said: "Lots of students are involved in the occupation to get them through three years of college. They are working towards degrees but are prepared to work in this environment because they know it is properly run."
The business is expected to employ a total of about 20 staff. Councillors have slapped on no less than 32 conditions at the premises, which include: no private performances taking place of an adult nature and no audience participation.

Self-styled 'pro-family activists' are beiong sued after their hate-filled protests against a local Oregon strip club.
The owner and a patron of Sunny Valley's Club 71 have brought lawsuits claiming "severe emotional distress" against 14 demonstrators who opposed the establishment. The defendants picketed outside the nightclub with signs and also took photographs of faces and license plates, then posted the photos on an Internet website. It was this act of harrassment that prompted the lawsuits.
The American Family Association Center for Law & Policy - a right-wing, pro-religion group - is representing the defendants. And according to AFA Law Center chief counsel Steve Crampton, everything his clients did was within their constitutionally protected rights, including "holding their signs, talking to the people going in, trying to plead with them not to frequent this business," and even "taking some of the photos, posting them on a website, which they have every right to do."
Harrassment is illegal though, and this sounds very much like that to us.

Larry Flynt's Hustler Club beat eleven other nominees to be named best club in the Northeast at the Exotic Dancer Magazine 2005 National Awards Show, held in Las Vegas on August 25th. The event was hosted by comedian Dom Irrera and featured presenters including porn legend Ron Jeremy, and starlets Carmen Luvana (pictured), Dyanna Lauren, Ashton Moore and Martina Warren. No other details of winners are available at this time, but if we get 'em, we'll let you know.
Watch this space too for full details of the winners at The Erotic Awards, which took place last weekend.

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Morecambe could soon have pole dancing, following the opening of a new bar.
The Office has initially opened as an internet cafe/wine bar on its lower floor, but the owners hope to eventually refurbish the upstairs floor into a lapdancing club.
A spokesperson for Kirklands Entertainment said: "Due to the new licensing laws coming, in we can't open it for pole dancing until November. Then, the plan is for the girls to dance around a pole on a fixed stage, like you see in some American movies. Six months afterwards, if there's no trouble and the police are happy, we may apply for a licence for actual lap dancing. We are also exploring another option to possibly open the second floor as an Italian restaurant, instead of the pole dancing."
Nice to see a coherent business plan in operation.
Future plans for the pub may include a tapas food menu, cocktails and live jazz music.

Hollywood burlesque troupe the Pussycat Dolls look set to take the number one spot in the UK singles chart this weekend, with their debut single Don't Cha comfortably outselling all rivals.
The Pussycat Dolls were formed in 1995 as a revolving-door lineup of dancers and passing celebs in need of an ego boost, including Carmen Electra, Christina Aguilera, Christina Applegate, Brittany Murphy, Gwen Stefani, Charlize Theron, Drew Barrymore, Nikka Costa, Cameron Diaz, Paris Hilton, Scarlett Johansson, Lucy Liu, Madonna, Demi Moore, Pink, and Jessica Simpson amongst others.
Inevitably, none of these stars appear on the record. Instead, the line-up is Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Melody Thornton, Kimberly Wyatt and lead singer Nicole Kea, formerly a Reality TV cast-off. Don't Cha was reportedly originally recorded by singer Tori Alamaze.
Inevitably, the single is the most godawful sub RnB/dance crap you could imagine, it's alleged female empowerment message somehow failing to come through in the lyrics ("Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me?Don't cha? Don't cha?...") and will - depressingly - no doubt have pole dancers throughout Britain listlessly grinding away to it nightly.

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Striporama is looking for UK based performers - experienced or otherwise - for our planned video productions.
We're aiming to shoot a series of striptease/glamour/burlesque movies, inspired by 1950's and 60's girlie loops (think Bettie Page shorts), but with a modern twist. They won't feature hardcore sex, but nudity WILL be required, and some will feature fetish imagery.
We're especially keen to hear from rock, punk and goth chicks, with tattoos and piercings being more than welcome.
Stage performers who want their shows captured for posterity should also get in touch.
Bear in mind we're working on a VERY low budget, so those of you motivated by money should perhaps look elsewhere. But if you want to be involved in cutting edge, alternative erotica, this is your chance!
Email us here - and please enclose JPEG's if possible.

As most of you based in the UK will be aware, the government are considering making possession of 'violent' pornography an offence. Currently, possession of obscene material is not illegal, but following a campaign by the family of murder victim Jane Longhurst - who's killer was supposedly 'addicted' to extreme porn sites - the Home Office are planning to put violent porn on the same level as child porn - depaite the lack of evidence showing that it causes anti-cosial behaviour or that anyone is actually hurt or forced into making it.
Obviouly, we oppose this: not only will it set a bad precedent which could easily be extended to any other aspect of adult entertainment - the new law would already encompass bestiality - but the loose definition of 'violent porn' would mean that people could be jailed for owning anything from The Story of O upwards. It's also a horribly condesending law which assumes that no-one can consent to appearing in SM movies or photosets, branding all models as Victims.
So far, the press and public response to this has not been as enthusiastic as the government might have expected, but they have the tabloid press and TV on their side. Their is a public consultation paper on the proposal. We urge every Striporama reader to read it and resond, telling them exactly why the idea is so bad. Please make reasoned, polite arguments though!
You can download the PDF document here.
Dave Taylor's Melon Farmers web site is offering full coverage of the situation, including information on meetings and protests.

Nottingham stripper Cheryl Marks is about to join 155 women who are hoping to break the world women's skydiving formation record.
The 24 year old pole dancer, who works at Senoritas, has already taken part in 330 skydives in the last four years. Last year she was among 60 women who created a British record when they skydived 14,000 feet above Nottingham.
The attempt to break the world record of 121 people free falling in formation takes place in California between September 26 and October 1.
She told the Nottingham Evening Post: "I am going to be the least experienced of all of the people taking part in this jump. Since I did my first jump for charity I have been hooked. I get a huge buzz from doing it and enjoy the challenge. I am quite light so I will be one of the last people to jump and know where I will be going because we are in different coloured teams and all have different numbers. The jump will take place over several days, so we will have quite a few attempts at breaking the record. The thought of breaking the world record is really exciting.I am hoping that everything goes smoothly."
Cheryl must raise £1,500 in sponsorship in addition to the £1,000 she has already collected