Strippers As Sex Symbols

April 19, 2005

Strippers As Sex Symbols

How this came about?
When and where did it started?

We need not look at a long time ago. Striptease, the combustible mixture of sexual display, cool eros and irreverent humor was born less than a century ago, as we know it today. From its nineteenth century vaudeville roots, through its controversial career to its decline during the flower power of the 60's, nothing describes better american popular entertainment.

It had its golden age, between the Jazz time and the sexual revolution period, when strippers would perform around the country in burlesque theaters, nightclubs, vaudeville houses and even privately.

Flamboyant impresarios, tight-laced political pundits, shimmy girls, cootch dancers and would-be showgirls, all this universe had this one undressing fervor in common. They were all lured into this profession by big-city aspirations and dreams of fame and fortune. We hope to recreate this once seductive art form in the following pages and raise consciousness about the life of nude dancers, male strippers and exotic showgirls.

Enjoy!