Object are a pressure group that "challenges the objectification of women by the media and popular culture because of the denigrating and often contemptuous manner in which mainstream culture portrays women and the attitudes that this perpetuates, legitimizes, promotes and creates." I caught up with their spokeswoman Anna van Heejiswk at a protest against the licensing laws outside Parliament.
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Lynda Waltho, Labour MP for Stourbridge, West Midlands, was present at the protest, supports the call to change the law. "In my constituency, a club was set up near a six-form college. It's important to hand back the democratic right of my constituents to have a say on what sort of clubs can set up in their town," she said. "It's nonsense that you can object to your neighbour building a porch but you can't object to a lap-dancing club. The law needs to change. These clubs are not classified correctly."
