REGARDING the lap-dancing club in Blackburn (LET, May 23), I agree wholeheartedly with your editorial comment.

The only people who would benefit from this slide into squalor are the money-grabbing exploiters of the pathetic men who are fixed on self-destruction, addicted to alcohol, and who don't care who they hurt in their decline.

Many of the major civilisations have been wiped out by moral collapse caused by hedonism -- self pleasure seeking -- and, guess what? we're going the same way.

For goodness sake, let's wake up.

MARTIN SMITH, Langham Road, Blackburn.