Editing Table dance (section)

==Sex work==
In [[strip club]]s, a table dance is a semi-private sexual performance that takes place near or on a customer's table.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIuEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA637|first1=Terry|last1=Victor|first2=Tom|last2=Dalzell|publisher=Routledge|date=2007|isbn=9781134615346|page=637}}</ref> In some jurisdictions, a table dance may be an alternative to a [[lap dance]], due to laws preventing [[exotic dancer]]s from making contact with customers. For example, in [[Waterloo, Ontario]], a table dance is performed on a small portable platform the dancer takes around to patrons’ tables.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/307974 |title = Table dancing here to stay | first =Terry | last = Pender | date=February 12, 2008 | work =[[The Record (Waterloo Region)]] | accessdate = 2008-02-24 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090303063745/http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/307974 |archive-date=3 March 2009}}</ref> The [[Windmill Theatre]] in [[Soho]], London operated as a [[strip club]] from the 1990s until 2018. The club's licensing conditions included a "no touching" rule and the club had a licence for [[striptease]], [[pole-dancing]] and table dancing.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sheppard|first1=Owen|last2=Prynn|first2=Jonathan|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/historic-soho-lapdancing-club-the-windmill-theatre-faces-closure-after-sting-finds-performers-flout-a3736546.html|title=Historic Soho lap-dancing club The Windmill Theatre faces closure after performers flout 'no touching' rules|work=London Evening Standard|date=10 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=David|url=https://www.thetimes.com/edition/news/celebrated-soho-strip-club-loses-its-licence-trxrmkvsh|title=Historic Soho strip club The Windmill Theatre loses its licence|work=[[The Times]]|date=11 January 2018|access-date=11 January 2018}} {{subscription required}}</ref> In many clubs, dancers earn most of their money from tips for table dancing.<ref>{{cite book|title=Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ttReqxO4a7YC&pg=PA68|editor1-first=Calvin|editor1-last=Morrill|editor2-first=David A.|editor2-last=Snow|editor3-first=Cindy|editor3-last=White|publisher=University of California Press|date=2005|isbn=9780520245235|page=68}}</ref>