I pay my council tax so that I can get access to essential local services, not so that you can have a jolly to a ferkin lapdancing club under the excuse of a fact finding visit.
Cornwall Council has defended plans to send members on a "fact-finding visit" to a lap dancing club.
Under new laws, the venues are now classed as sex establishments, rather than as pubs or cafes, and require special licences from local councils.
The council's licensing committee said the trip to another county, probably to neighbouring Devon, would give it "a full understanding" for a new policy.
Club owners in the county have criticised the new legislation.
A spokesman for the council said it was "not unusual" for members to undertake fact-finding visits to ensure that they had the necessary information and understanding to make informed decisions.
The chairman of the council's miscellaneous licensing committee, Jim Flashman, said: "People make assumptions about these kinds of establishments and we want our deliberations to be based on facts.
"We need to have a look at one of these clubs and understand what goes on, how they're policed and what associated problems there might be.
"And it would be wrong for us to visit a place in Cornwall as we might have to consider it at a later stage in respect of licensing."
The visit is likely to be to a club in Plymouth or east Devon.
It has not been decided how many of the 12 members of the committee will go on the visit, but costs would be "kept to a minimum" and revealed afterwards, the council said.
Last month, the owner of a lap-dancing club in the county condemned the new powers given to councils to control the industry.
Alan Whitehead, of Divas in Newquay, said the new rules were "not logical" because such venues were not sex establishments.
He said: "They are dancers and that is all it has ever been and will be."
