LUCY: The public see lap-dancing clubs as dirty. I don't think people who work in them see it like that. We're dancers, a lot of us are trained dancers, and we're in control. I think the whole industry is classed as fun; it's a laugh if you don't take it too seriously. It's fantasy, it's got to be taken light-heartedly. And films make strippers - they're always strippers, not dancers - as filthy, on crack, working in clubs run by drug dealers and gangsters. And it's absolutely not like that. I think the public need to switch on and realise it's not that bad. People need to know that they're there, and if they're done right, they're safe.

TIA: It's got really bad. I don't actually know how the girls put up with it. Girls dread going up to big groups of guys because they just look at them like this piece of meat. And you might think "what else do you expect?" But when I started that's not what it was at all.

LUCY: Do I enjoy it? Yeah, I enjoy it. Someone said the other night, "I don't think of this as a lap-dancing club, I think of it as a museum of women." I like that. Dancing is an art, women's figures are beautiful. If I'm dancing for a stinky, hairy fat guy, then that's not exactly what I thrive on, I don't think "I'm really enjoying this." But I'm not naive about anything, because all I am in that club is tits and ass. That's fine by me, because I know it. At the end of the day it's a job, and I think of it as a job. But it is a weird job, maybe because other people perceive it as a weird job. I have to take my clothes off. People don't sit in an office naked. But everyone's got a naked body, everyone's got nipples. When I dance topless, guys are paying to see nipples, and they've got their own. I think that's the weird thing. But there is a stereotype attached to this job. When people hear what I do they get an image of me, that I'm always wearing mini-skirts, knee high boots, that I get my tits out all the time, and I've got a personality to match. But I don't come across like that when I'm not working. And while I get a lot of stick for being a stripper, I'm laughing to the bank.

TIA: When I look back, I wouldn't say I'm ashamed of it all because I used the money well. But I'd never go back to it. And people who I know that still do it, I think "you've really got to get out of that, it's really not good". I'm absolutely positive that 95% of the girls hate the job, but they're addicted to the easy money and they genuinely don't have any skills to do anything else. A lot of them have children to support, and they can't afford to go into education, they don't have anything else in the pipeline. They hate the job but they'll just keep doing it.

LUCY: A lot of people say that it's degrading to women. I actually think it's degrading to men. Guys come in and think w're degraded, because they think we have to be there. But we live in a society where girls can get a job anywhere. It's not like we have to take our clothes off to feed out families. I don't think it's degrading to women at all. We want to be there, we want to earn the money. I think it's degrading to men, because we sell something, they buy it, and then they walk out with nothing. So we're selling them nothing, and they're still paying for it. Everyone always says to me, "when are you going to get a real job?" But it's a real job for now. They only say that because it's not a long term thing. There's a shelf life for any kind of physical job, and there's only so much plastic surgery you can have, if you even want it. But I don't even know what I want to do yet. I don't want to be forty and still doing this. And it's not for every girl, that's for sure. But at the moment, I go there I, I earn money, I come home. I have all my days to myself, I make good money, I go on holiday. I love it.