The government has announced a ban on job centres carrying adverts for jobs in the sex industry.
The curb, which will come in with immediate effect, will cover a range of jobs including those advertising for lap dancers and strippers.
The government has said this this ban is to prevent job seekers feeling as if they have to accept jobs that they may feel uncomfortable with.
However, the ban does not necessarily mean that job centres cannot carry 'appropriate' adverts for vacancies within a sex industry environment. A cleaning job in a lap dancing club for example would be allowed.
The ban will only affect jobs which could lead to exploitation, Employment Minister Chris Grayling said.
This decision comes as a response to a public consultation which, according to the government, revealed "significant public concern" about the advertisement of sex industry jobs in job centres.
Sex industry jobs have been displayed in job centres since 2003, and figures demonstrate that job centres advertised more than 350 jobs in the sex industry in 2008.
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