Striptease Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
For the book/movie Striptease see Striptease (book) and Striptease (movie)A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes their 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, not on the state of being undressed: in some cases the performance is finished as soon as the undressing is finished.
A strip club is a nightclub which specializes in striptease. Striptease performers are called, among other things, strippers or, the term preferred by those in the profession, exotic dancers.
A variation on striptease is lap dancing or contact dancing. Here the performers, in addition to stripteasing for tips, also offer "private dances" which involve more attention for individual audience members. The contact can vary from a simple up-close dance with no touching, to physical contact with the stripper to, in some clubs, sexual intercourse. Variations on this theme include table dancing (performer dances on or by customer's table) and couch dancing (customer sits on a couch), or sexual acts between two female strippers, like touching, kissing, fingering and cunnilingus.
Striptease is an ancient art: various accounts in the Bible describe the daughter of Herodias (often called Salomé) as dancing for king Herod, who offered her anything she wished as a reward. Modern interpretations of these stories presume that this dance was, at least in part, a striptease. The Biblical account goes on to relate that, prompted by her mother, she then asked for the head of saint John the Baptist on a platter.
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."
Until the 1970s, on an official level 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, however the practice eventually became common enough on its own.
Visits by women to clubs featuring male exotic dancers, usually as a group for an activity such as a hen party, have now become part of mainstream culture in Western countries. And 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 common place. 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. Because of this, the nightclub management and their bouncers do not try to restrain their female audiences and this is picked up by the female patrons and they push the envelope to just see how far they're allowed to go. Most commonly, it is the female patron that is testing the boundries that is the one that starts restraining themselves before the bouncers do. And women who experience this unrestrained atmosphere might wrongly think the same is allowed when their husbands or boyfriends go to their stripclubs and thus why they (the women) are still less inclined to allow their men to go to them.
Many erotic actresses and actors in the US make their main living from their earnings from personal appearances as featured strippers, in much the same way that many musicians make their main living from live performance, with their recordings serving as advertising. And many in the striptease industry appear in erotic media to be paid more for appearing at stripclubs as "feature dancer" due to being a "porn star", 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.
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History of striptease
Ancient striptease
Burlesque
Male strippers
Relationship to the erotic movie industry
Notable Late Strippers
Notable Modern Strippers
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