Calgary’s high school, college and university students are to be targeted as part of a recruiting campaign to acquire new strippers.
The Adult Entertainment Association of Alberta, representing 40,000 strippers, said a new decision by the federal government to stop working permits to foreign strippers would cut their workforce by five percent.
Tim Lambrinos, the head of the group, said to replace the dancers, his association will participate in job fairs held in high schools, colleges and universities. ” They (federal government) are trying to destroy the industry and what it seems is young women between 18 and 19 have been untouched,” he said.
A stripper is described as a professional erotic dancer who performs striptease at strip club establishments, public exhibitions, and private engagements. Erotic dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is the stimulation or arousal of erotic or sexual thoughts or actions.
The strippers and their association should first of all learn that job fairs are held for students to seek decent and reputable jobs. Stripping by any stretch of imagination cannot be classified as “decent” or “reputable.” Stripping is not as dignified as working, for example, at Tim Horton or Safeway.
I can also not imagine any high school, college or university will be that stupid as to allow this group space at their job fair. It appears that the group cannot differentiate between morality and decency. Society aims to nurture young minds towards training in the professions, business or technical fields and not in stripping. Does the group also expect guidance counselors to steer students towards stripping instead of, for example, engineering? How would it look when you have oil companies seeking engineers or nurses’ union looking for nurses having a table next to the association-recruiting strippers at a job fair?
When I was at university, I was able to get a job during holidays with the country’s leading newspaper, which leads to a career in journalism. Stripping is not a profession that students would like to get involved with so that it could lead to a professional career. People do not go to university to become strippers.
Mr. Lambrinos other assertion that “it’s not a public funded school’s place to discriminate between various job types” is totally meaningless as it is the mandate of education institutions to safeguard their institutions of learning. Anyone who tries to encroach upon that has to be prevented from doing so.
School trustees should ensure that students are steered towards a career path without having to take their clothes off.
Can you imagine receiving a resume from a graduate saying that she was a part-time stripper during school holidays? I don’t think any employer would be impressed with such a person.
My friendly advice to Mr. Lambrinos and his group is that they should stick to their own source of recruitment and leave educational institutions alone.
