THE LEGALITY OF THE STRIP DANCING

The strip club is another form of adult entertainment in Nigeria which the owner of this club enslave the minor (underage) or older vulnerable girls into prostitution. Most of these girls who engage in it are picked from the street or their villages with promises of being engaged in business.

But this business unknown to them is prostitution. The older prostitutes are people who recruit these young girls into prostitution. What we know as strip show is beyond the humanly knowledge, in terms of what happens inside these clubs, that is the kind of activities...in these clubs which mostly are located in the ikeja, Victoria island and other business zones in Lagos. Meanwhile in Abuja, the most popular one is the Eddy Vic hotel at Garki 2. There is also a strip club in Port Harcourt and other cities in Nigeria.

Girls, the stripers, are paid as much as N50, 000 and as low as N2, 500, depending on the club they strip for. They also get tips from their fans who are the big wig in the society. These big boys sometimes take the bold step in paying to have any of these girls for the night. A certain percent of what these girls make goes to their coordinator. The Ocean Blue is a strip club in Lagos where strip girls freely have sex with men while giving them lap dance for extra tips.

Some of the dancers blame poverty, lack of parental care and other circumstances as the reason why they engage in it. Some guys are exploring this form of business as a means to enrich themselves, not as stripers but as agents who recruit girls for these clubs. These agents recruit strip girls from all over the country and travel with them to different clubs in the big cities. The agents get paid and then in turn pay the girls off.

Do these agents get away with it? What is the government doing about it? And these girls, how long do they intend to remain strippers? is strip dance a legal business in Nigeria?

Story by: Queendaline Schneider.
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