Freshers Lap Up Free Vouchers

Vouchers for free entry to a Cambridge lap-dancing club were handed out to Freshers last week.

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Vouchers for free entry to a Cambridge lap-dancing club were handed out to Freshers last week.

The Student Discount Book was dished-out outside the Freshers’ Fair on Parker’s Piece, promoting Talk of the Town along with more familiar night time hotspots, such as Fez and The Place.
 
The strip den was offering to waive the usual £10 entrance fee.
 
A Trinity undergraduate described the club as harmless: “My favourite of Cambridge’s night spots, it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Expensive drinks but cheap girls. Perfect for a little post-Cindies action.”
 
But some students are less than impressed. A third year historian told The Tab that his “bedder is better looking than the girls at Talk of the Town.”
 
A fourth year, despite having visited the club on two separate occasions, dismissed the dancing as “the opposite of everything good. It’s not sexy.”
 
The promotion has caused moral outrage. A female fresher who received the booklet was “scandalized”, adding that she was “surprised such tasteless publicity would be tolerated in a university such as Cambridge.”
 
She wanted to ask the club: “What is the connection between a distraction which raises women as sex objects and a university event?”
The vouchers were not authorised by CUSU, and were not distributed as part of the Societies Fair.
 
Shirley Titterington, an employee at SDB Print and Web, the company responsible for the booklet, defended their choice to include the scandalous voucher.
 
She said that what students do with the vouchers is down to "freedom of choice".
 
In response to suggestions that offering free entry was irresponsible, Titterington said: "We will certainly consider removing things from our publication that offend people in future.”
 
“People who have a problem with it should take it up with the people who run these places," she added as a suggestion.
Following Titterington’s advice, The Tab spoke exclusively to Talk of the Town’s owner.
 
“The club has been running the promotion for two years. This is the first time we’ve had any criticism.”
 
The establishment prides itself on tight control, and “all the customers are greeted with the rules and regs when they walk through the doors.”
 
Asked to describe the spot’s average punter, he said that they are usually 21 or above.
 
But apparently it’s not just men who enjoy the services on offer: “Lots of girls come in” the owner continued, “they come for the fascination, you know, to have a laugh, and often have more fun than the blokes.
 
"They usually thank us at the end of the night.”
 
Not a fan of a striptease, Harriet Harman, Labour’s Equalities Minister, “declared war" on lap-dancing clubs only a few weeks ago.