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Tim Lambrinos is the executive director of the
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(AEAC).


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Tim Lambrinos is the executive director of the
Adult Entertainment Association of Canada The Adult Entertainment Association of Canada (AEAC; also called the Adult Association of Canada) is a coalition of strip club owners and their agents that represents 53 of the 140 strip clubs in Ontario, Canada. Tim Lambrinos is the organization ...
(AEAC) and is a registered
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in
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. He is also a member of the Exotic Dancers Association of Canada and chairs the Arts and Heritage Committee of the Toronto
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. In his role with the AEAC, Lambrinos represents the interests of
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s to the public. In 2007, he made an accusation against the government, saying government officials were alleging "that exotic dancing is considered to be humiliating and degrading work," an assertion that Lambrinos called "most offensive." Starting in 2004,
stripper A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at private events. Modern forms of stripping m ...
s working at AEAC strip clubs began petitioning the AEAC for free locker storage space for their
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, and, in 2010, Lambrinos announced that the fight had resulted in "a victory for the girls." In 2011, the
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considered instituting a law requiring strippers in the
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to submit
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s so that the
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could keep better track of the strippers and make sure that they were not minors, and Lambrinos called the proposed law "absolutely outrageous, discriminatory and insulting." Also that year, Lambrinos complained that
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was giving a hard time to strippers crossing the
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, but Canadian officials responded that
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had been keeping the strippers' profession confidential, and had not been sharing this information with the
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. In 2012, he issued a complaint to the
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regarding
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s in the city, saying that "there's no laws that governs these clubs or the swingers inside."


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