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Seductive Striptease
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This article is about the type of dance. For the race horse "Exotic Dancer", see Exotic Dancer (horse) . For other uses, see Striptease (disambiguation) .

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A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. [1] The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a " stripper ", exotic dancer, or ecdysiast .

In Western countries, the venues where stripteases are performed on a regular basis are now usually called strip clubs , though they may be performed in venues such as pubs (especially in the UK), theaters and music halls . At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at a bachelor or bachelorette party . In addition to providing adult entertainment , stripping can be a form of sexual play between partners. This can be done as an impromptu event or – perhaps for a special occasion – with elaborate planning involving fantasy wear , music, special lighting, practiced dance moves, or unrehearsed dance moves.

Striptease involves a slow, sensuous undressing. The stripper may prolong the undressing with delaying tactics such as the wearing of additional clothes or putting clothes or hands in front of just undressed body parts such as the breasts or genitalia . The emphasis is on the act of undressing along with sexually suggestive movement, rather than the state of being undressed. In the past, the performance often finished as soon as the undressing was finished, though today's strippers usually continue dancing in the nude. [2] [3] The costume the stripper wears before disrobing can form part of the act. In some cases, audience interaction can form part of the act, with the audience urging the stripper to remove more clothing, or the stripper approaching the audience to interact with them.

Striptease and public nudity have been subject to legal and cultural prohibitions and other aesthetic considerations and taboos . Restrictions on venues may be through venue licensing requirements and constraints and a wide variety of national and local laws. These laws vary considerably around the world, and even between different parts of the same country.

H. L. Mencken is credited with coining the word ecdysiast – from " ecdysis ", meaning "to molt" – in response to a request from striptease artist Georgia Sothern , for a "more dignified" way to refer to her profession. Gypsy Rose Lee , one of the most famous striptease artists of all time, approved of the term. [4] [5] [6]

The origins of striptease as a performance art are disputed and various dates and occasions have been given from ancient Babylonia to 20th century America. The term "striptease" was first recorded in 1932. [8]

There is a stripping aspect in the ancient Sumerian myth of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the Underworld (or Kur). At each of the seven gates, she removed an article of clothing or a piece of jewelry. As long as she remained in hell, the earth was barren. When she returned, fecundity abounded. Some believe this myth was embodied in the dance of the seven veils of Salome , who danced for King Herod , as mentioned in the New Testament in Matthew 14:6 and Mark 6:21-22. However, although the Bible records Salome's dance, the first mention of her removing seven veils occurs in Oscar Wilde 's play of 'Salome' , in 1893.

In ancient Greece, the lawgiver Solon established several classes of prostitutes in the late 6th century BC. Among these classes of prostitutes were the auletrides : female dancers, acrobats, and musicians, noted for dancing naked in an alluring fashion in front of audiences of men. [9] [10] [11] In ancient Rome , dance featuring stripping was part of the entertainments ( ludi ) at the Floralia , an April festival in honor of the goddess Flora . [12] Empress Theodora , wife of 6th-century Byzantine emperor Justinian is reported by several ancient sources to have started in life as a courtesan and actress who performed in acts inspired from mythological themes and in which she disrobed "as far as the laws of the day allowed". She was famous for her striptease performance of " Leda and the Swan ". [13] From these accounts, it appears that the practice was hardly exceptional nor new. It was, however, actively opposed by the Christian Church , which succeeded in obtaining statutes banning it in the following century. The degree to which these statutes were subsequently enforced is, of course, opened to question. What is certain is that no practice of the sort is reported in texts of the European Middle Ages.

An early version of striptease became popular in England at the time of the Restoration . A striptease was incorporated into the Restoration comedy The Rover , written by Aphra Behn in 1677. The stripper is a man; an English country gentleman who sensually undresses and goes to bed in a love scene. (However, the scene is played for laughs; the prostitute he thinks is going to bed with him robs him, and he ends up having to crawl out of the sewer.) The concept of striptease was also widely known, as can be seen in the reference to it in Thomas Otway 's comedy The Soldier's Fortune (1681), where a character says: "Be sure they be lewd, drunken, stripping whores". [14]

Striptease became standard fare in the brothels of 18th century London , where the women, called 'posture girls', would strip naked on tables for popular entertainment. [15]

Striptease was also combined with music, as in the 1720 German translation of the French La Guerre D'Espagne (Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1707), where a galant party of high aristocrats and opera singers has resorted to a small château where they entertain themselves with hunting, play and music in a three-day turn:

The dancers, to please their lovers the more, dropped their clothes and danced totally naked the nicest entrées and ballets ; one of the princes directed the delightful music, and only the lovers were allowed to watch the performances. [16]
An Arabic custom, first noted by French colonialists and described by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert may have influenced the French striptease. The dances of the Ghawazee in North Africa and Egypt consisted of the erotic dance of the bee performed by a woman known as Kuchuk Hanem . In this dance the performer disrobes as she searches for an imaginary bee trapped within her garments. 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. [17] Middle Eastern belly dance , also known as oriental dancing, was popularized in the United States after its introduction on the Midway at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago by a dancer known as Little Egypt . [18]

Some claim the origin of the modern striptease lies in Oscar Wilde 's play of 'Salome' , in 1893. In the Dance of the Seven Veils the female protagonist dances for King Herod and slowly removes her veils until she lies naked. [19] After Wilde's play and Richard Strauss 's operatic version of the same , first performed in 1905, the erotic 'dance of the seven veils', became a standard routine for dancers in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque . A famous early practitioner was Maud Allan who in 1907 gave a private performance of the dance to King Edward VII .

In the 1880s and 1890s, Parisian shows such as the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère were featuring attractive scantily clad women dancing and tableaux vivants . In this environment, an act in the 1890s featured a woman who slowly removed her clothes in a vain search for a flea crawling on her body. The People's Almanac credits the act as the origin of modern striptease.

In 1905, the notorious and tragic Dutch dancer Mata Hari , later shot as a spy by the French authorities during World War I, was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet . [20] The most celebrated segment of her act was her progressive shedding of clothing until she wore just a jeweled bra and some ornaments over her arms and head. [21] Another landmark performance was the appearance at the Moulin Rouge in 1907 of an actress called Germaine Aymos, who entered dressed only in three very small shells. In the 1920s and 1930s the famous Josephine Baker danced topless in the danse sauvage at the Folies and other such performances were provided at the Tabarin . These shows were notable for their sophisticated choreography and often dressing the girls in glitzy sequins and feathers. In his 1957 book Mythologies , semiotician Roland Barthes interpreted this Parisian striptease as a "mystifying spectacle", a "reassuring ritual" where "evil is advertised the better to impede and exorcise it". [22] By the 1960s "fully nude" shows were provided at such places as Le Crazy Horse Saloon . [23]

In the United States, striptease started in traveling carnivals and burlesque theatres, and featured famous strippers such as Gypsy Rose Lee and Sally Rand . The vaudeville trapeze artist , Charmion , performed a "disrobing" act onstage as early as 1896, which was captured in the 1901 Edison film, Trapeze Disrobing Act . Another milestone for modern American striptease is the possibly legendary show at Minsky's Burlesque in April 1925 that inspired the novel and film The Night They Raided Minsky's . Another performer, Hinda Wassau , claimed to have inadvertently invented the striptease in 1928 when her costume was shaken loose during a shimmy dance. Burlesque theatres in New York were prohibited from having striptease performances in a legal ruling of 1937, leading to the decline of these " grindhouses " (named after the bump 'n grind entertainment on offer). [24] However many striptease stars were able to work in other cities and, eventually, nightclubs.

The 1960s saw a revival of striptease in the form of topless go-go dancing . This eventually merged with the older tradition of burlesque dancing. Carol Doda of the Condor Night Club in the North Beach section of San Francisco is given the credit of being the first topless go-go dancer. [25] The club opened in 1964 and Doda's première topless dance occurred on the evening of June 19 of that year. [26] [27] The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of her with red lights on her breasts . The club went "bottomless" on September 3, 1969 and began the trend of explicit " full nudity " in American striptease dancing. [28] which was picked up by other establishments such as Apartment A Go Go . [29] San Francisco is also the location of the notorious Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre . Originally an X-rated movie theater this striptease club pioneered lap dancing in 1980, and was a major force in popularizing it in strip clubs on a nationwide and eventually worldwide basis. [30]

In Britain in the 1930s, when Laura Henderson began presenting nude shows at the Windmill Theatre , London, censorship regulations prohibited naked girls from moving while appearing on-stage. To get around the prohibition the models appeared in stationary tableaux vivants . [31] [32] The Windmill girls also toured other London and provincial theatres, sometimes using ingenious devices such as rotating ropes to move their bodies round, though strictly speaking, staying within the letter of the law by not moving of their own volition. Another example of the way the shows stayed within the law was the fan dance , in which a naked dancer's body was concealed by her fans and those of her attendants, until the end of her act in when she posed nude for a brief interval whilst standing still.

In 1942, Phyllis Dixey formed her own company of girls and rented the Whitehall Theatre in London to put on a review called The Whitehall Follies.

By the 1950s, touring striptease acts were used to attract audiences to the dying music halls. Arthur Fox started his touring shows in 1948 and Paul Raymond started his in 1951. Paul Raymond later leased the Doric Ballroom in Soho and opened his private members club, the Raymond Revuebar in 1958. This was one of the first of the private striptease members clubs in Britain.

In the 1960s, changes in the law brought about a boom of strip clubs in Soho with "fully nude" dancing and audience participation. [33] Pubs were also used as a venue, most particularly in the East End with a concentration of such venues in the district of Shoreditch . This pub striptease seems in the main to have evolved from topless go-go dancing. [34] Though often a target of local authority harassment, some of these pubs s
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