May 19, 2005
Male Desire And Strippers
G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire.
Not to make it sound too serious but we found this book on amazon about why men keep hitting strip clubs.
As one reader pointed out "...while this is obviously adapted from academic material, Frank uses her experience as an exotic dancer to dig into the question of why men frequent strip clubs."
Did she answer the question? From reading the different editorials...
we suspect she hasn't.
Even a major review shows some reservations "...Her research is sound-she works in a variety of clubs to get a full picture of the experience-and she documents her research exhaustively, with 25 pages of footnotes and a 14-page bibliography, in addition to extensive verbatim quotes from her subjects. Unfortunately, this rigorous approach has robbed her thesis of its inherent bathos and humanity, resulting in a tedious, laborious read weighed down with academic jargon. She also includes some of her own fiction, which does not enhance the reading pleasure."
Her conclusions are not new. She ends the book with the clear vision that even though upsetting to wives and girlfriends men keep visiting titties bars. Nothing new here.
Some would have wished instead of a quest for the ultimate stripclub relevation, that she had included more bare pink...
The book can be purchased here
Good reading!
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