This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex roles, cultural positions, and performance practices of 'straight' strip shows during their second heyday in the early 1990s.
Katherine Liepe-Levinson's research took her to over seventy different strip bars, clubs, theatres and sex emporiums ranging from elaborate lap-dancing and couch-dancing 'gentlemen's' clubs in New York, Houston, and San Francisco; to Peoria's onetime duplex cabaret where women strip for men downstairs, and...

This text offers an account of a North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex roles, cultural positions, and performance practices of straight strip shows during their second heyday in the early 1990s. Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease. Her travels took her to over 70 different strip bars, clubs, theatres and sex emporiums ranging from elaborate lap-dancing and couch-dancing gentlemen's clubs in New York, Houston, and San Francisco; to Peoria's unisex cabaret...