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Police are trying to make it illegal “to be sexy” in Saskatoon, says a Saskatchewan woman who claims the city’s vice squad threatened to give her a ticket for dancing provocatively without an adult entertainer’s licence.

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Melody Sterner says she just wanted to enjoy a carefree night of dancing when she headed to Rock Bottom dressed in short-shorts, fishnet stockings and a T-shirt last April. Police found her outfit especially provocative and seemed convinced that she and a friend were paid strippers, she said.

“It’s about equal rights,” Sterner said. “That’s what gets me so upset.”

A vice squad officer recorded her personal information and warned her and a friend that they could get a ticket for performing without an adult entertainer’s licence, she said. The club pays Tiger Lily Cabaret dancers to perform partial stripteases, but she was just a customer, Sterner said.

“We kept saying, ‘We’re not getting paid,’ ” Sterner told The StarPhoenix. “We shouldn’t be told it’s against the law for us to be feminine, or to be sexy. We don’t want to be told by anybody … what we can and can’t wear.”