Scotland's strippers are being backed by campaigners who protested against the potential closure of Glasgow's lap-dancing clubs.
Members of The Empowered Woman Project (TEWP) gathered in Glasgow's George Square on Satuday to oppose proposals that could see all four of the city's adult entertainment venues closed.
Licences for the city's four venues are under scrutiny as Glasgow City Council asks the public how many 'Sexual Entertainment Venues' (SEVs) there should be.
Over 4,000 people have signed TWEP's petition which will be put to Glasgow City Council in August.
TEWP's founder Mandy Rose Jones says that for the 700 women working in this industry across the country, getting another job isn't that simple.
Mandy, 29, told the Record: "We want to keep these venues open and keep 700 women across Scotland in jobs.
"It's absolutely not the case that these women who work in adult entertainment venues can work anywhere.
"For those who've danced for 10 to 15 years it's not as simple as that.
"There needs to be a bit of stigma alleviated from society as well."
Mandy added: "What people fail to realise is that doing this will push women out of jobs and potentially into unsafe situations and environments as they try to replicate their income or meet the demand for adult entertainment venues underground without security and support.
"People who want the clubs to shut down should visit them and speak to the workers.
"If this was a factory and not an adult entertainment venue the workers would be consulted on what was going to happen to them and what the contingency plan was."
Joining Mandy at the protest was Kirsten Doherty, an instructor at Glasgow's West End Pole Dance Academy.
The 32-year-old says she owes her career to strippers in the past who taught their skills to women who've gone on to dance to make a living or to keep fit.
Kirsten told the Record: "I teach women to pole dance for fitness and fun and to unleash a bit of sexy if that's what they want to do.
"It's important we recognise that this job is possible because of strippers in the past teaching their skills.
"Women should have the right to work in whatever industry they choose and do so safety.
"If you close these clubs then you'll end up with it going underground where it's not as safe.
"Clubs that are open now are subject to regulation you're safe because of the stewards and because of the CCTV."
'Blue' has been an adult model in and around Glasgow for the past three years.
The 23-year-old told the Record: "I think it's important to draw attention to the issue now.
"If they close 700 women are going to be out of a job and with the stigma of sex work, finding another job will be difficult."
"It puts women in danger.'
Jan Macleod, of the Women's Support Project in Glasgow, has said previously it wanted a limit of zero and for existing lap dancing clubs to be closed but was not sure the rules would allow closures.
She said: "Our organisation shares the Scottish Governments view that lap dancing, stripping etc are forms of sexual exploitation and that these activities are incompatible with gender equality."
