Concertgoers in Christchurch are outraged and demanding an apology after a lewd sex act was done live on stage.
Up to a hundred people turned out for the Pretty Ricky concert at The Bedford venue in Christchurch on Saturday night.
Only twenty minutes into the act, one of the American hip hop band members picked a female audience member and performed a sex act on her.
Dr Abby Suszko was in the front row and said their group immediately left when they saw what was happening.
"We were basically subjected to something that was quite pornographic and it just made me feel sick, and wrong."
Matiu Workman was also there, and said complaints will be laid with the promoter.
"We've left feeling pretty empty, pretty hollow, very disgusted and disappointed."
Mr Workman said that after the woman was picked out of the crowd, she was subsequently told by one of the Pretty Ricky band members "no matter what happens, do not close your legs."
He said it made his group feel extremely uncomfortable, and said "this behaviour is totally unacceptable and objectifies women whilst normalising graphic, sexual acts."
Dr Suszko said while the group she was with expected a certain level of behaviour given the sexual nature of the band's music, they went too far.
She would be sending a complaint to the concert promoter, she said.
Director of The Bedford at CPIT, where the gig was held, has apologised to fans after a woman was part of lewd sex act on stage.
Band members picked a woman out of the audience, and brought her on stage. They gave her a lap dance, before one picked her up and performed an oral sex act on her.
Bedford Director Wendy Alfeld told NewstalkZB that although she didn't see what happened, she wasn't happy by the tone of the show.
She felt offended as well, she said, and apologised to all fans for the show, which The Bedford doesn't condone.
The group won't be asked back after the actions and low tickets sales, she said.
The head of PATO Entertainment has denied any offence was caused by the American hip hop band.
The Tauranga-based company bought Pretty Ricky to New Zealand for four concerts - in Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington and Christchurch.
Pato Alvarez said all he saw that night was a girl being given a lap-dance on stage and nothing more.
He highly doubted the band would have gone so far as to cause so much offence, he told NewstalkZB.
Pretty Ricky is an American hip hop and R&B band, made up of brothers Baby Blue, Spectacular, Slick'em and Pleasure P. The four piece are from Miami, Florida.
The original line-up, including Pleasure P, played the band's New Zealand shows. It comes after Pleasure P, real name Marcus Cooper, left the band in 2007 to embark on a solo career.
He was replaced by 4Play and Lingerie, until he returned to the band earlier this year.
It's not the first time the band has hit the headlines for the wrong reasons.
In July 2010 a viral video showing Slick'em snorting Cocaine was released.
And in March 2012 one person was killed and four others injured when a fight broke out after a solo concert by Pleasure P in Wichita, Kansas.
In 2009 Pleasure P's attempts to make a solo name for himself were marred by child molestation accusations, after the daughter of a Florida lawyer claimed her father had been hired by the rapper to "cover it up''.
She claimed he was kicked out of the group because "he was hiding that he was a child molester", and hired her father to "keep it quiet so he could get a record deal", reported Clutch magazine at the time.
The group confirmed at the time that Pleasure P was kicked out, saying "he did not leave on his own free will''.
However, Pleasure P denied the accusations, describing them as maliciously fake, and saying they were "all lies", according to Vibe.com.
In 2014 he told Bossip.com the rumours were "not true''.
Comments on social media indicate the band did a similar 'lapdance' at its Auckland gig, at Stampede Bar in Papakura.
One girl said she and her sister both got lapdances from Pretty Ricky, and wanted to know if the bar had any footage of it so they could share it online.
"My sister and I had a fantastic time!!" she said on Facebook. "So did a lot of my friends that I saw there."
Another woman on the bar's Facebook page, Suzy Field, said she was jealous of the girls who got a lapdance from the band members.
"Dayum, who were the lucky b***ches that got a lap dance," she said.
However, one woman Teza Ariki, said she thought the act was "a bit rude".
- Newstalk
