British job centers carry stripping ads

LONDON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- British government-run job centers say they are legally obligated to carry ads seeking women to strip on Internet sex sites.

The Department for Work and Pensions posted a stripper ad on its national Web site and at a walk-in job center in Cardiff, South Wales, The Daily Mail reported Saturday.

The Department said a High Court ruling in 2003 mandates the job centers must carry ads for legal work in the "sex and personal-services industries," the Mail reported.

The ad, published by a company called Cybtrader, says the $16-an-hour job involves "explicit sexual dialogue" and "performing for clients" for 15 to 40 hours a week. The job does not offer a pension, the Mail reported.

Elsa Hill, a manager at Eaves, a charity that cares for women trafficked into prostitution, said appearing on an Internet Web camera on a sex site is indistinguishable from prostitution. "It is abusive, degrading and humiliating," she said.