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Introduction
A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes his or her clothing for the purposes of sexually arousing the audience, usually performed in nightclubs. The "teasing" involves the slowness of undressing, while the audience is eager to see more nudity. Delay tactics include additional clothes under clothes being removed, putting clothes or hands in front of just undressed body parts, etc. Emphasis is on the act of undressing along with sexually suggestive movement, not on the state of being undressed: in some cases the performance is finished as soon as the undressing is finished. (Prior to the sexual revolution, striptease performance often ended with the performer wearing a g-string and pasties). This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ...
(See also List of types of clothing and Clothing terminology) Humans nearly universally wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, garments, attire, or apparel) on the body. ...
Sexual arousal is the process and state of an animal being ready for sexual intercourse. ...
A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
Teasing is the act of playfully disturbing another person, either with words or with actions. ...
Body of a woman - digital painting Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. ...
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See Thong for other meanings. ...
For the food, see Cornish pasty. ...
Along with physical attractiveness and appropriate clothing, the main asset and tool used by the exotic dancer in recent years is the stripper pole. Almost all exotic dancers are drawn to the profession by attractive salaries they can receive in the form of tips and commissions from lap/couch dances and champagne rooms. The terms exotic dancer and exotic dance can have different meanings in different parts of the world and depending on context. ...
A girl demonstrating a pole dance at a private party Pole dancing is a form of dancing/gymnastics that takes muscular endurance and coordination as well as sensuality. ...
A champagne room (also called a champagne lounge, or, in the UK, a champagne court) is a specialized service offered by gentlemans clubs where a customer can purchase time (usually in half-hour increments) with an exotic dancer in a private room on the premises. ...
Off-stage A variation on striptease is private dancing, which often involves lap dancing or contact dancing. Here the performers, in addition to stripping for tips, also offer "private dances" which involve more attention for individual audience members. Types of private dances include table dancing (performer dances on or by customer's table) and couch dancing (customer sits on a couch). A lap-dance is a specific type of erotic dance, in which the patron is seated, and the dancer is either in immediate contact with the patron, or within a very short distance. ...
A lap dance is a specific type of erotic dance, in which the patron is seated, and the dancer is either in immediate contact (contact dancing) with the patron, or within a very short distance. ...
A table dance is an erotic dance performed at the customers table, as opposed to up on stage. ...
A couch-dance is an erotic dance much like a lap-dance, except that the person upon which the dance is being performed is seated on a couch. ...
Sofas come in a variety of colors, patterns, and materials (two-seater model) Ancient Greek sofa A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, lounge or chesterfield is an item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. ...
For certain events, including bachelor / bachelorette parties, the stripper's job often involves holding games or contests with sexual themes. In addition, the main guest of the party can sometimes be eligible for 'special' couch dances involving sexual acts between two strippers.
The contact between a performer and a customer is regulated in ways that vary in response to local laws and club rules, ranging from "air dances" with minimal or no contact to "full-contact" lap dances which involve genital contact through clothing. In disreputable clubs, physical contact with the dancer may include sexual intercourse, at the dancer's discretion. It has been suggested that Sexual penetration be merged into this article or section. ...
History of striptease - Note: much is missing here, and needs to be written.
The ancient art of the strip tease traces its origins in the Sumerian tablets, on which were written the myth of the desecent of the goddess Innana into Hades to retrieve her lover Damouz. At each of the seven gates, she removed a veil and a jewel. As long as she remained in hell, the earth was barren. When she returned, fecundity abounded. Her dance lived on as the famous dance of the seven veils of Salome, who danced for King Herrod in the Old Testament. Many forms of the strip tease made their way throughout Sumeria, Mesopotamia, into Asia and west into the near east and southern europe, via Gypsies. Salome or Salomé, like Dismas, or the various names of the Three Magi, is a name given to a character in the Bible whose name is not given in the Bible itself. ...
Sumer (or Shumer, Sumeria, Shinar, native ki-en-gir) formed the southern part of Mesopotamia from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of Babylonia. ...
Mesopotamia (Greek: Μεσοποταμία, translated from Old Persian Miyanrudan between rivers; Aramaic name being Beth Nahrain house of rivers) is a region of Southwest Asia. ...
In South India, the dance evolved through the Devadasi temple and court dancers. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
In the nineteenth century, French colonists in North Africa and Egypt "discovered" and seized upon the dances of the Ghawazee, especially a courtesan dancer known as Kuchuk Hanem, and exoticized the image of the nonwestern woman as one who would disrobe as part of a dance performance. It is likely that the women performing these dances did not do so in an indigenous context, but rather, responded to the commercial climate for this type of entertainment. North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Azores, Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. ...
The Ghawazee (Ghawazi) are an ethnic group that have been exoticized in Western travel narratives of Egypt since the 18th century as a particularly sensual group and are probably the origin fo the contemporary notion of belly dance. ...
Famed beauty and Ghawazee dancer of Esna, mentioned in two unrelated nineteenth-century accounts of travel to Egypt, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert and the American adventurer George William Curtis. ...
Middle Eastern belly dance, also known as Oriental Dancing, was popularized in the US after its introduction on the Midway at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago by a dancer known as Little Egypt. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
Belly dance is a Western name coined for a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. ...
Midway is: An island in the Pacific Ocean: see Midway Atoll A battle in World War II fought on and around that island: see Battle of Midway A 1976 movie based on the events of this battle: see Midway (movie) A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier named after the battle...
One-third scale replica of The Republic, which once stood in the great basin at the exposition, Chicago, 2004 The Worlds Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
Little Egypt can mean: Little Egypt, a belly dancer. ...
American strip tease nurtured its roots in carnivals and Burlesque theatres. The art and business enjoyed prosperity as the United States economy grew out of the depression of the 1932 through the fifties. In the sixties and seventies, with changing cultural expressions of sexuality, it degraded into less profitable, more depressing status. In the eighties and technology boom of the nineties, those in the profession enjoyed more widespread aceptance and better working conditions.
Burlesque The People's Almanac credited the origin of striptease as we know it to an act in 1890s Paris in which a woman slowly removed her clothes in a vain search for a flea crawling on her body. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
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Striptease enjoyed a revival with the advent of burlesque theatre, with famous strippers such as Gypsy Rose Lee. In 1940, humorist H. L. Mencken coined the term ecdysiast as a euphemism for strippers; it derives from the Greek ekdusis meaning "to molt." Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of the upper classes. ...
The Screaming Mimi (1958) Gypsy Rose Lee (February 9, 1911 - April 26, 1970) was an American actress and burlesque entertainer. ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
A humorist is an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays. ...
H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth century journalist, satirist and social critic, a cynic and a freethinker, known as the Sage of Baltimore and the American Nietzsche. He is often regarded as one of the...
A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ...
Male strippers Until the 1970s, strippers were almost invariably female, performing to male audiences. Since then, male strippers, performing to female audiences, have also become common. Male and female strippers also perform for gay and lesbian audiences respectively, as well as for both sexes in pansexual contexts. Prior to the 1970s dancers of both genders appeared largely in underground clubs or as part of a theatre experience, but the practice eventually became common enough on its own. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
The mirror of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex. ...
Male symbol Male is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces sperm. ...
In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ...
Lesbian describes a homosexual woman. ...
The adjective pansexual refers to equal acceptance of all of the major human sexual orientations and identities, including heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, as well as transgender, transsexual and intersex people. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
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Visits by women to clubs featuring male exotic dancers, usually as a group for an activity such as a bachelorette party, have now become part of mainstream culture in Western countries. Unlike the enforced sedate atmosphere at clubs featuring female exotic dancers for male audiences, the female audience for male strippers is very vocal, rowdy, and even aggressive. Female patrons getting up on stage with the male exotic dancers and helping them strip or joining them stripping is commonplace. Cultural stereotypes would have it that this atmosphere is possible because the male exotic dancers do not view such women as a physical threat as female exotic dancers would if their male patrons were to do likewise—not only is the average man stronger than the average woman, but male strippers tend to be unusually muscular. Usually, the nightclub management and their bouncers do not try to restrain their female audiences. Female patrons tend to "push the envelope" to see how far they're allowed to go. Most commonly, it is the female patrons testing the boundaries who are the ones that start restraining themselves before the bouncers do. A hen party (or bachelorette party) is a party for women only, often held for a woman who is about to be married. ...
Stereotypes are considered to be a group concept, held by one social group about another. ...
Gay male strip clubs feature men who appear initially in skimpy undergarments (which are quickly removed if full nudity is allowed) and socks. Fondling the strippers is commonplace and considered fair game, even as it is often technically prohibited. In cities such as Washington, D.C. where full nudity is allowed, the male strippers at gay venues stand on the bar or stage and masturbate to maintain erection, allowing the customers to also masturbate them for tips. Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ...
Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ...
An erection of the penis occurs when engorgement of venous blood in two tubular structures at the bottom of the penis, the corpora cavernosa, results from a variety of stimuli. ...
A tip (also known as a gratuity) is that amount of payment to certain service sector professionals which is in addition to the advertised bill or fee. ...
Relationship to the erotic movie industry Many erotic actresses and actors in the US make their main living from their earnings from personal appearances as featured exotic dancers, in much the same way that many musicians make their main living from live performance, with their recordings serving as advertising. Many in the striptease industry appear in pornographic movies or magazines to be paid more for appearing at stripclubs as "feature dancers" because they are "porn stars", which clubs advertise to bring in a bigger paying audience. The more famous the "porn star", the more the exotic dancer will be paid by the stripclub to perform at their club. A pornographic actor or a porn star is somebody who appears in pornographic movies, live sex shows or peep shows. ...
Exotic dancers are those that possess a mastery in any form of dance that is rare in Europe, Australia, the USA and Canada. ...
Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. ...
Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. ...
Pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines or sex magazines are magazines that contain content of a sexual nature, typically regarded as pornography. ...
A pornographic actor or a porn star is somebody who appears in pornographic movies, live sex shows or peep shows. ...
Stripping at home In addition to night club entertainment, people are now daring to strip for their partner at home for an occasion like their birthday or Valentine's day. Partners have to decide various things before the event like whether they want it to be a surprise to one of them, or a long anticipated night, the fantasywear, the music, the place, the color of rooms and lights, and little dance moments that suit the generally less space available at home. Fantasywear is a style of clothing, usually including lingerie, that people wear in the boudoir usually for living out sexual fantasies. ...
Computer depictions Computer depictions of striptease, eg on screensavers have in the past proved a diversion in some tolerant office environments, but are now rare. Developments which produce comparatively small 'dancers', usually in one corner of the desktop are now available - but these are often viewed as inappropriately sexist, a misuse of computing resources, and a possible route for viruses and trojans. A screensaver is a computer program originally designed to conserve the image quality of computer displays by blanking the screen or filling them with moving images or patterns when the computers are not in use. ...
A desktop is the horizontal surface of a desk. ...
See also Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of the upper classes. ...
Calendar Girls is a British film of 2003, based on the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produce a nude calendar to raise money for charity, under the auspices of the Womens Institute. ...
In several areas of Western culture, the Dance of the Seven Veils (usually described as danced by Salomé) is one of the elaborations on the historical and biblical tale of the execution of John the Baptist. ...
The Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Hall of Fame is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm in Helendale, California. ...
A fan dance is a dance performed with one or more fans. ...
Erotic dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is the stimulation or arousal of erotic or sexual thoughts or actions. ...
Fantasywear is a style of clothing, usually including lingerie, that people wear in the boudoir usually for living out sexual fantasies. ...
This is a list of women known for modelling or performing in big-bust adult entertainment (also known as big-boob, big-breast, or big-tit porn). ...
Notable strippers Blaze Starr Carol Doda Dixie Evans Evelyn West Fanne Foxe Gypsy Rose Lee Mata Hari Sally Rand Lili St. ...
The Full Monty is a 1997 comedy film, a story of six unemployed British steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act. ...
The original poster for the show. ...
Jelena Jensen (born October 7, 1981) is an American erotic actress and model. ...
Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running theatrical revue, debuting off-Broadway in 1969, created by British critic Kenneth Tynan. ...
Showgirls is a film directed by Paul Verhoeven and released in 1995 by United Artists. ...
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