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Sexual entertainment venues are those venues in England & Wales (and later Scotland) which have been licensed for the performance of nudity for profit where the primary intention of the entertainment is sexual gratification or titillation.<ref>see: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http:/crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimereduction057a.pdf</ref> Most of the venues licensed in this way are [[Lap_dance|lap dance]] or gentleman's clubs specialising in female striptease for an assumed male audience, but some offer more general sexual entertainment, burlesque or male striptease. Such clubs are routinely opposed by those who feel that these 'lower the tone' of particular neighbourhoods, and the introduction of licensing legislation under the 2009 Policing and Crime Act (in England and Wales) and the 2015 Air Weapons and Licensing Act (Scotland) has reduced the number of relevant premises to fewer than 200 across the UK, significantly down on the 350 or so existing in the early 2000s.<ref>see: https://sevlicensing.wordpress.com</ref> The reasons for licence refusal vary, but usually it is on grounds of the club being in an inappropriate locality.<ref>Hubbard, Philip. "Law, sex and the city: regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales." International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 7, no. 1 (2015): 5-20.</ref>
 
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