Abuse survivor Sammy Woodhouse: "Lap dancing and page 3 pin-ups degrade women"

Sammy (32, pictured), who is now a public speaker and campaigner, also called for an end to lap dancing clubs — an industry in which she worked for nine years.

She said: “From my experience and with the support of a lot of other women, I believe they should be prohibited, as it’s degrading towards women. 

“It is important that we send the right messages to the next generation and currently we are not.”

Sammy, who released a book, Just A Child, last month about her teenage grooming experiences, has written to business minister Andrew Griffiths, calling for a meeting about the depiction of women in some publications.

She said: “Newspapers such as the Daily Star, Daily Sport, The Sun, are showing indecent images of exposed women.

“Currently, these papers are available and advertising these images on newsstands in shops all over the UK. 

“I find it greatly concerning that images of naked women, posing sexually, are so readily available for a child of any age to see.

“As a previous ex-glamour model, I myself have featured in some of those newspapers when I was just 18 years old. 

“I feel I understand, more than most, how a young person can turn to work such as glamour modelling in their most vulnerable times and how they can be exploited in these situations.”