Most women working at X in the Merseyside city are working at the club for extra cash alongside another full-time job or to pay their way through university.

One has kept her job a secret from family and friends, having worked at the club for four years to fund her university degree.

Out of the 50 girls working at X in the City, around 30% are students stripping to pay their way through their studies.

She told Liverpool Echo: “The hours are hard work and I don’t get home until 4am, I don’t get to sleep until 5 and and then I’m in lectures at 8am.

“It’s the drunk fellas that are worst because I don’t drink.

"It’s when people are dead drunk and annoying – you can’t get a conversation out of them and it annoys me repeating myself."

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Another has been lap dancing for 10 years since moving to the UK from Eastern Europe on a university student exchange.

She’s a qualified teacher with a husband and kids, but chose to start lap dancing to help pay off her mortgage.

She added: “My husband said, because one of my friends used to do this, he said ‘why don’t you try it?’ and I was like ‘...you what?!’"

“I tried it and there’s nothing wrong with it. There’s no contact here and the club look after you.”

Strippers at X in the City are essentially self-employed.

They choose their own hours and pay a fee to the club for every night they want to come in and work – it's up to them to earn as much cash as possible in a night.

On Fridays the going rate is £90, which goes up to £120 on Saturdays when the club is busier.

But many have been known to make up to £500 in one night.

That's a huge jump on the average weekly wage for most workers in Liverpool.

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