Devenish Finaghy videos of male strippers: UK Pleasure Boys XXL - Belfast City Council investigates naked male strippers with women on stage

The bar advised patrons it was a Valentine's Weekend Special and to "Expect plenty [of] thrills and dancing.... Perfect for a girls night out."

Videos claiming to be from the event circulated on social media over the weekend. The videos showed perhaps a dozen women on stage – apparently patrons – performing actions with naked men along to music.

Belfast City Council told the News Letter that it was investigating the event.

A council spokeswoman said: “Council is currently investigating the event at the Devenish Bar over the weekend. As this is subject to an ongoing investigation, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.”

A PSNI spokeswoman said they have received one report regarding an event at licensed premises on Finaghy Road North, Belfast on Saturday, 17 February.

"Officers are currently reviewing the circumstances. As enquiries are ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.”

Police added that the granting and enforcement of entertainment licences is controlled by local councils under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.

The Facebook advert for the Finaghy event itself prompted almost 900 reactions. The following comments were posted by a range of women.

"I didn't see anyone get up to leave, they musta enjoyed it," said one.

"Next one be a sell out Next one be a sell out," said another.

Others asked where they could see videos of the event, and were told that social media providers were deleting the videos.

But others were not impressed.

One said: "Why was this not stopped? It is disgusting. The manager should have stopped this."

Another added: "Think your room needs deep cleaned, after seeing videos."

Yet another said:: "To bring an act like that to a family venue is a disgrace........".

The owner and director of Pleasure Boys, John Woodward, rejected claims from the BBC’s Stephen Nolan that the show was degrading.

"Absolutely not,” he told the Nolan Show. “You're just giving somebody a bit of release, a bit of entertainment, something they generally don't get anywhere else.

"It's a special event, it's not something you'll see just walking down the street. You pay for a ticket for one of our shows and there's dancing, fire, acrobatics, and then obviously the nudity, which is the ending."

Mr Nolan asked if men leaning their crotches over the faces of women was acrobatics?

Mr Woodward replied: “The video that you have actually seen is the ending where the girls had stormed the stage. This wasn't planned, this was something that just happened at the end of the evening.”

Mr Nolan put it to him that the dancers’ genitalia was touching the women at this point.

Mr Woodward replied: “They were fully nude at the stage when the stage got stormed, so obviously they carried on… it did get a bit out of hand.”

"This was the finale when the boys came out and took a bow and the girls stormed the stage, then they carried on dancing with the girls. They weren't just going to walk off the stage at that point."

He added: “Everything we do, it's crowd participation and everything is simulated, there's absolutely no sort of sexual acts going on during the show."

John said UK venues can apply for a special events license which covers such a performance, with venues able to apply for 12 of these licenses a year.

The News Letter contacted local councillors and MLAs from Alliance, DUP, Sinn Fein and SDLP for reaction, however none has been offered.

The Devenish Bar was also contacted for comment.