#FiLiA supports a total ban on all forms of the sex trade and the exploitation of Women and Girls.

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In August, we held ‘Just a bit of fun? The reality of Glasgow’s strip clubs’. Women came together to hear about and discuss the harms to women as a result of SEVs.

A further FiLiA Women’s Assembly event, focused on next steps to action, is being planned.

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We also supported @sisterssalon.bsky.social, in their ultimately successful campaign, objecting to the renewal of the Pussycat Club #Brighton – which closed in September.

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We were pleased to support one of our volunteers in a successful local campaign in #Warrington.

‘Councillors were ‘shocked and dismayed’ that the applicant referred to female performers throughout the hearing as ‘girls’.’

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Obsessions appeared empty when we arrived late on Friday. Staff from the bar next door confirmed it had been closed for months and have even put their bar sign over the Obsessions sign... Curiouser and curiouser!

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We also discovered during this process that two of #Manchester SEVs appear to have stopped operating.

Victoria's voluntarily surrendered their licence in April 2025 (we made an information request to licensing).

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Look at the images – to us they feel like the normalisation of these kinds of clubs, who hide behind the words ‘burlesque‘ & ‘cabaret‘, but which offer 'fully naked dances' in their menu.

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Manchester City Council are investing over £400 million into the development of Albert Square and the Town Hall to turn it into ‘a civic square to rival the best in Europe’.

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Situated a mere 371 feet from Albert Square, which holds many family events, including the famous #Manchester Christmas markets, despite the MCC SEV policy saying NO SEVs should be licensed in Albert Square.

The third #Manchester SEV, Whiskey Down, was inspired by the Playboy Mansion, says the owner, and boasts ‘a room straight out of Christian Grey’s world’, according to their website.

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Baby Platinum is likewise renewed by @mancitycouncil.bsky.social every year – despite MCC being @whiteribbonuk.bsky.social accredited, meaning they should work towards a ‘Changing Culture’ and ‘a zero-tolerance policy on SEVs'.

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While we were outside, a family left the restaurant opposite, which included many young girls in school uniform, likely out for a family meal.

Manchester Chinatown is a family friendly, community area – we wondered how a strip club located here can have its licence renewed each year?

On Friday night, some FiLiA volunteers joined her in #Manchester.

This is Long Legs, located in Manchester's Chinatown – the second largest #Chinatown in the UK and the third largest in Europe.

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Dr Laura Favaro has spent time walking around each city centre late at night, to get a sense herself for how it feels for Women who use the areas around SEVs.

Research has shown that Women self-exclude from areas with strip clubs.

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They use int'l fixtures to promote lapdancing packages, boasting they are ‘where the “after match” truly begins’, targeting '150,000 fans in Cardiff city centre'.

Playhouse, FYEO, Fantasy Lounge – metres away from each other & normalised as part of the high street.

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Now to #Cardiff: three SEVs are less than 0.5 mile away from the Pprincipality Stadium AKA the Millennium Stadium, the national stadium of Wales and the home of the Wales national rugby union team @welshrugbyunion.bsky.social.

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Josef Cannon, Licensing Barrister, noted that this defeat was, in his opinion, a ‘comprehensive indication that adopting a nil cap under the new regime, if done properly, would be likely to be lawful, even where existing SEVs were operating.’

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Read @susandalgety.bsky.social's December 2022 article on these SEVs; as she noted, some call them empowering, ‘when the reality is that it degrades every one of us, reducing women to nothing more than living sex dolls designed for the sexual pleasure of men.’

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