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Detroit City Council Trying To Ban Lap Dances

Amelia McDonell-ParrySeptember 30, 2009 //

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the Detroit City Council meeting yesterday. DJs, strippers, and club owners descended on the council, begging to be left alone. See, Detroit’s city government is trying to put regulations on the adult entertainment industry and has proposed that dancers stay at least six feet away from patrons onstage and 18 inches away when they’re on the floor—meaning that there can be no intentional physical contact. So long, lap dances! I’m not a guy, but what’s the appeal of paying to be six feet from a naked woman when there’s free internet porn? There are 33 strip clubs in Detroit and many of the dancers are parents putting themselves through school or people who just have limited job choices. One single mother and dancer said, “All of us are young. There’s nothing else out there. There’s no jobs.” The executive director of the Association of Club Executives in Michigan and California says the clubs bring in over $3 million a year to Detroit. Religious figures from Perfecting Church and Second Ebenezer Church (how evil villain-core are those names?!) came to support the city, and the government hired a Tennessee attorney who’s apparently the master at closing strip clubs to consult for a mere $75,000. [Freep] Keep reading »

Stripper With A Taser Gun Is On the Run!

Jessica GoldbergSeptember 29, 2009 //


For those fascinated with stripper-on-stripper violence, have we got a story for you. Well, technically, it’s stripper-on-cocktail waitress violence. Anyway, at Cabaret North, a topless club in Fort Worth, Texas, exotic dancer Kathleen Bennett got in an argument with waitress Jennifer McReynolds. As they exchanged words, a manager fired Bennett. A few minutes later, Bennett was caught on tape tasering McReynolds. McReynolds apparently followed her as she fled the club, so Bennett tasered her again. Police are still looking for Bennett. Note to self: the next time I feel the urge to fight a woman with weapon-length nails—just let her win. A taser to the face evidently causes a black eye. [DListed] Keep reading »

The Story Of The One-Boobed Stripper

Susannah BreslinAugust 25, 2009 //

Viva Las Vegas is a popular stripper based in Portland, Oregon. A preacher’s daughter, she was raised in the Midwest before she moved to the West, where she worked as a nude dancer for over a dozen years. Eventually, she wondered if it was time to retire. Last year, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After chemo made her hair fall out and a mastectomy left her with one breast, she wasn’t sure what to do. So, she wrote a book about her experiences: Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas. After the lump was removed, extra skin from a cadaver was used to cover the area, but she resisted having her breast rebuilt with an implant. And then, she went back to stripping … [The Daily Beast] Keep reading »

Do Men And Women Go To Strip Clubs For Different Reasons?

Jessica WakemanAugust 17, 2009 //

Do men and women go to strip clubs for different reasons? Tanya Gold, a Guardian scribe who went to London’s Spearmint Rhino strip club and a Chippendales show, thinks so. She said the difference in the audiences was stark. At the Chippendales show, groups of women screamed delightedly at the strippers, clapping like they were at a friggin’ Jonas Brothers concert, but the mood at the Spearmint Rhino was not in the least bit joyous and, in fact, was full of sad men sitting alone. Keep reading »

Even A Strip Club Manager Thinks Miley’s Pole Dance Was Uncomfortable

Jessica WakemanAugust 12, 2009 //

Okay, publicist for SCORES a “gentleman’s club” in New York City. You won. I took your opportunistic press release bait. I called up Ed Norwick, the general manager of SCORES, to ask him what he, as a sort of stripping aficionado, thought of Miley Cyrus’ pole dance number at the Teen Choice Awards. Our chat, after the jump: Keep reading »

Yeah, Baby: Channing Tatum, Male Stripper

Susannah BreslinAugust 12, 2009 //

You know it’s going to be a good day when you wake up to find a video of Channing Tatum stripping off his clothes. Of course, Channing Tatum stripping off his clothes in your bedroom would be better, but we take what we can in life, don’t we? Apparently, before he was famous and killing it at the box office by starring in “G.I. Joe,” Tatum was a member of a Chippendale’s-type male stripper revue called Male Encounter. Hot! After the jump, all the deets and part two (NSFW) of the video … Keep reading »

Rhode Island Lets Teenagers Be Strippers

Daniela GuernicaJuly 24, 2009 //

When I was sixteen, most of my friends were working retail jobs at the mall while I answered phones and sorted mail as a receptionist after school. Great spending money, but admittedly a snoozefest. But a loophole in Rhode Island law allows 16-year-old girls a different kind of job opportunity. “Lucky” ladies in RI under the age of 18 are free to strip—as long as they stay indoors and are home by 11:30pm. Come on, they still have algebra to do! [CNN] Keep reading »

Christina Aguilera To Put Big Boobs To Professional Use

Susannah BreslinMay 5, 2009 //

According to Variety, peroxided songstress Christina Aguilera will be starring in her own version of “Showgirls”: “Burlesque.” Watch out “Striptease”! Aguilera will play an “ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club that appears to be right out of Bob Fosse’s ‘Cabaret.’” That’s weird. That’s the story of my life. (Call my lawyer!) The script was written by Steve Antin, brother of Robin Antin, who created the Pussycat Dolls, and Jonathan Antin, who does famous people’s hair. Twenty bucks says Aguilera’s character will work at Forty Deuce, home of that LA neo-burlesque to which they are referring. Luckily, like Demi in “Striptease” before her, Aguilera’s got the knockers for this thong, pasties, and feathers role. Let’s just hope she don’t have a “Glitter” on her hands. [Dlisted] Keep reading »

Quickies!: Poor Little “Slumdog” Girl

Annika HarrisApril 21, 2009 //
  • The mother and stepmother of Rubina Ali from “Slumdog Millionaire” got into a very public fistfight after reports surfaced that Rubina’s father tried to sell her. [Pop Eater] — It’s safe to say this little girl needs a new set of parents. I hear Madonna is in the market for a little girl.
  • Susan Boyle doesn’t need a makeover because her appearance has nothing to do with her talent. [Shine]
  • Tired of all that spice-up-your-love-life mumbo jumbo that starts to sound the same after a while? Check out these nontraditional ways to get in the mood. [Your Tango]

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    From Jobless To Topless: Women Strip to Stimulate The Economy

    Deborah SteinMarch 23, 2009 //

    Turns out our turd economy is good for one thing: stripping. Applications to jobs in the adult entertainment industry have risen like adolescent boy schlongs in the last year. Today’s flashdancer could be a sad hottie simply downsized from her job at an imploding international investment bank…

    It’s better than an unemployment check. One night’s work at the gentleman’s club Sin City in NYC brings in an average of $1000. Dancers at Rick’s Caberet in Miami will fold up to 300,000 sweaty dollar bills into their g-strings this year. Recently, 200 women showed up for a job fair at the Foxy Lady in Providence, R.I. Keep reading »

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