Striptease

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For other uses of "Striptease", see Striptease (disambiguation).

Image:Striptease - Tuning World.jpg 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).

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.

1 Off-stage
2 History of striptease
3 See also
4 External links

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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).

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.

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History of striptease

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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.

In South India, the dance evolved through the Devadasi temple and court dancers.

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 commerical climate for this type of entertainment.

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.

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.

There is a notable difference in the style and the energy as well as the general culture of Black and/or "Urban" strippers (including Afro-American, Latina, and all strippers whom were raised in and work in innercity or innercity geared or oriented establishments, generally women of color) and the rest of the American stripper world. There is a higher level of sexuality exuded as well as raunch and this can be attributed to the noted natural "sexuality" or rather sensuality in the black female: the hip centric nature of African dance and the seemingly effortless yet powerful manner in which this region of the body is commanded (similarly in latinas). This also may be a result of the fact that this is a honed and somewhat perfected routinized art in these communities, in which stripping for some women has provided a lucrative form of employment, and possibly the only somewhat reliable employment, due to lack of resources and opportunity, as well as education. This experience is visualised/illustrated in the rap artist Juvenile's new music video "Rodeo". This difference also adds variety to what may be viewed as a homogenous world of non-pornographic adult entertainment, and provides another capacity in which to view the cultural dichotomy of America along lines of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. (VSquality.)

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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.

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."

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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Stripping at home

In addition to night club entertainment, people are now daring to strip for their partner at home now for an ocasion like his birthday or valentines day. Parteners have to decide various things before the event like whether they want it to be surprise to one of them or anticpated night, the fantasywear, the music, the place, the color of rooms and lights, and little dance moments that suits the generally less place available at home.

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How to strip for her

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How to strip for him

This is an example fantasy using businessman costume(good because it has several layers of clothing) and as a surprise to her on one day.

Enter the house with happiness and starts the music system and bring her to sofa and make her sit on it. Plan for two or three your favourite sensual songs to which you can dance.
Start dancing rythamically but gently and sensually. Come near to her and go away few times.
Undo the tie and move near to her while still dancing and tie her hands with tie.
Remove the buttons of the shirt and remove the belt buckle.
Remove the zipper of belt, but do not she any cloths.
After some seductive dancing, slowly remove the shirt and vest.
Do dancing with upperbody movements and pelvic thrusting movements. During this time, also remove the tie knotted to her in the begining.
Remove pants, socks and shoes all together.
Preferably you should have wore small underwear like bikini or a thong. Now you have to dance and preferably spin around few times so that she can see complet body.
While showing her your back, remove the underwear and wear it back few times as a way of teasing.
Remove the underwear and keep your hands before groin and make few more dance moments.
Pick a towel and dance while using it to hide your parts. It shopuld not be tied early enough.
As a last dance, go near her wearing towel and do little dancing and shed or open it suddenly.
Bow before her and say her wishes for birthday or something.

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External links

Watch Mademoiselle Striptease Watch Brigitte Bardot Movie Mademoiselle Striptease
StripperWeb: an exotic dancer community that provides advice, support, and free services for strippers.
Exotic Dancer Forums: another exotic dancer online community, focused on the professional and business side of the industry.
Comedy Strip Shows:
Bare the Book is the website for Elisabeth Eaves book about strippers. It includes an excerpt.
History of Burlesque and Burlesque Dancers ca:Striptease