TORONTO – Young women who will soon be graduating from high school and heading to post-secondary education may receive an unusual and exotic job offer in order to help them pay their tuition.
Flyers touting the purported benefits of exotic dancing could be making their way into high schools and job fairs if the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada distributes them as planned.
The organization is set to hand out the flyers to students throughout the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) advising young girls that exotic dancing can help them pay for post-secondary education.
“If you are visually appealing and comfortable with your naked body and are comfortable about taking all your clothes off. You can be working right now as an exotic dancer and earn your tuition fees for university of college,” the flyer reads.
Tim Lambrinos, Executive Director of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada said that recently imposed rules by the federal government prohibiting immigrants from coming to Canada to work as exotic dancers has forced clubs to look to Canadian women to fill a demand.
“No one is forcing them, they’re adults. They can make their own decisions to go to war, to vote, to work in a club,” Lambrinos said.
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The Toronto District School Board declined to comment when contacted by Global News.
The Toronto Catholic School Board did say, however, that any flyers distributed upon their campuses must align with the policy of the board, essentially saying that these flyers won’t be allowed to be distributed within Catholic high schools throughout Toronto.
Though critics suggest that the flyers could find their way into the hands of much younger women, Lambrinos said that no one is allowed to work in an adult club before the age of 18.
Further, Lambrinos said the new rules imposed by the federal government, are forcing the clubs to break a club-imposed rule.
“Clubs usually have a 19-year-old minimum,” according to Lambrinos, but he says clubs are now looking at 18-year-olds because of a need for more workers.
Women’s advocacy group, the YWCA, supports a woman’s choice to choose their own profession, but question whether or not high schools are the appropriate place to recruit exotic dancers.
“We’re deeply concerned that the association is talking about recruiting high school girls to be strippers.” Sarah Blackstock a representative of the YWCA said.
“It’s totally inappropriate for the association to be recruiting high school girls. We should be telling girls that they can be doctors and lawyers and we should be helping them develop a strong sense of confidence and self-esteem so they can make good choices.”
Lambrinos says that many young woman are already working as students, and supplementing their income as an exotic dancer.
“It used to be 15 to 25 percent students working as exotic dancers, now there is 25 to 50 per cent in certain clubs are taking post-secondary school,” Lambrinos said.
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