Fargo, ND (from www.wday.com) – The recent sex scandal in Valley City, involving a pastor and an exotic dancer www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=35974 is raising questions about the exotic dancing industry.

WDAY 6 Reporter Todd Kurtz spoke with a woman who owns a business that provides exotic dancers; he joins us live with the story.

Ashlynn Rose says the industry is not dirty. She says, just like any job, there will always be people who don’t follow the rules. The rest, she says, just do their job and make a lot of money.

“I don’t think you can escape the downfall of things happening in any company.”

Ashlynn Rose runs Starlight Entertainment. Don’t bother looking up an address; her office is a cell phone. Rose today is defending her business. Some are comparing it to prostitution.

“I have nothing to hide and I’m all about letting everyone know what this business is about.”

She calls herself a referral agent, taking calls and sending women to private homes to entertain mostly males.

“It’s not prostitution, um you can go to Craigslist, there’s all kinds of ways that you can get a prostitute ya know but it’s not through companies.”

Rose says her business is legitimate, legal and yes very lucrative. Dancers can make a couple of hundred dollars in just 30-minutes. She doesn’t understand or like the reputation of adult entertainment.

“I think you can look at any company and say ya know what they’re destroying the world, I mean look at the big corporations that are polluting ya know you can’t just take one industry point your finger at it and say this is the reason why society is horrible.”

An industry that she says will always be in demand and will always be followed with controversy.

Rose says about 70-percent of the time, the girls will be asked or offered something for sexual favors. She says most clients are bachelor parties, people out after the bar and a lot of businessmen.