This probably won’t be on the agenda at the next PTA meeting.
Nearly two dozen current and former dancers for Rick’s Cabaret — including moms of school-age children — filed court papers yesterday seeking to block lawyers from contacting them about a pending class-action employment suit against the Midtown jiggle joint.
The anonymous bump-and-grinders say they are “extremely alarmed” that their true identities outside the clubs could be exposed to judgmental employers, uptight neighbors, unknowing family members and creepy stalkers.
The Jane Does “include an aspiring lawyer (who utilized entertaining to fund her legal education), a real-estate broker, an independent business owner and a cosmetologist,” according to the Manhattan federal court filing.
“Several have school-age children and are members of the PTA. In their lives outside the nightclubs, they pursue normal, ordinary lives and become seamless members of the community,” the papers say.
“While they know that entertaining is a legal pursuit, they recognize and are sensitive to the stigmatization and negative stereotypes that often attach to this line of work. They are painfully aware that if their identities are revealed in connection with their work as entertainers their lives will be changed,” the papers state.