26 AUGUST 1960, Page 11

SIR,—Beware, beware, their flashing eyes, their float- ing hair. I

mean the lascivious contortions in the strip-tease clubs. If, as you suggest, these establish- ments were to be subject to more stringent control by the licensing authorities, so would the theatre clubs, which would then be defenceless against the muddlers and mufflers in the Lord Chamberlain's office. The pornographer is protected by the same anomaly in the law as the purveyor of more civilised pleasures. The curious ambivalence of our legislation on pleasure—drinking, gambling, looking at things—has , here some beneficial, if unintended, side-effects.- Yours faithfully,

20 Edgedale Road, Sheffield, 7

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IAN SAINSBURY