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Presumably tired of staid bake sales and well-behaved silent auctions, some frisky parents at a British school decided to raise funds for their kids' education by hosting a ladies' night complete with male strippers. Unsurprisingly, some parents didn't approve. More »
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Michelle Williams revealed that her daughter Matilda Ledger is as awesome as she is cute, telling Ellen DeGeneres she wants to give her new puppy a stripper name. Getting the spaniel cross for her 6th birthday, which is today — Happy Birthday, Matilda! — she thinks it deserves a moniker that will lend it a certain bedazzled elegance. "Her first ideas … sounded like stripper names! She wanted something like Crystal, Gem or Diamond," said Michelle. "I was like, 'We can't have a dog named [that].' But then I was like, 'You know what? Let her have it.'" Nomi Malone it is! [US] More »
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Last month, we reported on the court battle over a law in Texas that requires strip clubs to pay a so-called "pole tax" of $5 per patron. Club owners claimed that since nude dancing is a form of expression, the tax violated their right to free speech and were refusing to pay up. This week, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against the club owners. More »
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Tammy Chapman was a Penthouse Pet back in the early nineties; a few years later, while working as a stripper, she says she had this one asshole client who was obsessed with her and was constantly shoving her head in his crotch. Funny thing is, now he's about to run for governor of Missouri as a Tea Partying family values Republican. More »
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A strange new Utah law would make it a crime not just to explicitly offer sex for money, but also to "indicate, through lewd acts," that you're willing to do so. In addition to scaring ladies into hiking down their skirts, the legislation could allow cops to target legal businesses, like strip clubs. More »
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When one writer recalls her days as a stripper, it's not the sordid lows or the glam highs, but the sense of community. Or, as she terms it, "the sex industry's scarcest commodity: trust." More »
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A strip club owner would like to let the women of the world know that Super Bowl Sunday will require strippers. Lots and lots of strippers. More »
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Last year, a "strippermobile" full of exotic dancers sparked controversy in Vegas. But this year, the owners filled the vehicle with Santas who gave out gifts to kids. Says the AP, "There was no gyrating or pole dancing this time." More »
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Before last night's premiere of Bret Michael's family-based reality show, VH1 an update on the lives of his varied paramours from three seasons of Rock of Love. Where are they now? Well, for the most part, in strip clubs. More »
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In this week's abbreviated, holiday-weekend compilation of pop culture crap, strippers protest a church, Nancy Grace cracks nuts, and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler has an elaborate manicure. More »
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A study from the University of Leeds found that one in four strippers can boast a degree. Many are either aspiring actresses and models, but quite a few are unemployed new graduates, "mainly with arts degrees," they note. More »
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Though the majority of New Yorkers are opposed to Park51, the women who work at the nearby strip clubs generally feel that the whole "hollowed ground" argument is bullshit; "I don't know what the big deal is," said one local. More »
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• 28 flight attendants at Turkish Airlines have been asked to stay grounded for six months while they try and slim down. According to the airline, all of them had previously been received warnings about their weight.

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Girl, your man owes me 60 dollars. About your man: white, early 30s, balding, slightly chubby, suited, small dick rubbing into my ass. Your typical strip club patron. More »
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The UK government has banned companies offering jobs stripping or other sexual-stimulation work from advertising at tax-funded employment sites. The Minister of Employment said they don't want to put "vulnerable people" under pressure to work in the sex industry. More »
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We got our hands on a copy of Time Out New York's Sex Issue — from 1996. Let's take a look inside to see what sex was like when business was booming and "hookup culture" hadn't been invented yet. More »
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• In attempts to fight the Mancession-blues while keeping the bromance alive, some dudes are embarking on "mancations." Sometimes these all-male vacations even take them to "man caves," where they may or may not do a little manscaping. More »
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, stripper piñatas scandalize a Texas town, Hoda Kotb sings the IO Digital Cable jingle, and newscasters discuss Sarah Palin's breasts at length. More »
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I hate Sarah Palin as much as the next rational person, but you know what's even worse than Palin's politics? A "sexy" lookalike contest , with proceeds going to the Tea Party. Seems kind of backwards. [Mediaite] More »
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• A group of feral cats have been left homeless from the construction of the George W. Bush library. Volunteers are transporting the squatting felines to a new site, but it is difficult because "cats don't like to move." •  More »
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Today's Ellen came near and dear to our hearts for many reasons: Pies, Betty White, a well-waxed stripper... And regarding that stripper, do note the expression on Betty's face, frozen in a sort of horrified joy. And that's not all! More »
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•  A series of ads for Camel cigarettes launched in 2007 have proven themselves popular with an underage demographic: teen girls. Girls age 12-16 were twice as likely to list Camel as their favorite brand in 2008 than previous years. More »
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Manhattan prosecutors plan to call to the stand the supposed fiancé of one of two strippers charged with prostitution in order to refute any defense that involves lesbianism. Because you could never want to screw men and women, right? [UPI] More »
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• Did you know there was a such thing as a "Stripper-mobile?" Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. But some people are worried that driving around in a clear plastic truck while pole dancing may not be safe. More »
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Give It To Charity! Although, the point of this German ad for the children-aiding Heart's Desire Association seems to be that they end up in the same place anyway, right? More »
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Chetania Davis, 22, has been given a year of probation for stabbing her 52-year-old coworker with a stiletto heel. Davis reportedly attacked the new performer at the Ohio strip club because she didn't think they needed more dancers. [AP] More »
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• A Chinese bride may set a new record for saying "I do" while wearing the most insane gown. The groom purchased the dress, which is adorned with a record-breaking 9,999 silk flowers and a 1.2 mile train. • More »
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An Australian stripper has pleaded not guilty to raping the best man at a bachelor party with a sex toy. Her lawyer claims that any penetration that may have occurred was... accidental. [APP via The Daily What] More »
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This week's multimedia compilation of pop culture crap features a toddler who wants Botox, a toddler who has giant muscles, a toddler who acts like Anna Nicole Smith, and more. More »
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• Due to a legal loophole, teens are currently allowed to work as strippers in Rhode Island. The issue first came to light when a 16-year-old runaway was found working at Cheaters Gentlemen's Club in Providence. • More »
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Jessica here! In honor of the publication of the book collecting emails, texts and IMs from mothers I co-wrote with Doree Shafrir, Love, Mom, here are our own mothers' answers to your mom-related questions. More »
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As part of its never-ending quest to be both exploitative and irrelevant, PETA has hired professional strippers for their "I'd rather go naked" campaign, thus rendering the entire thing totally nonsensical. [AdFreak] More »
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A Wall Street Journal piece titled "Stripping Your Way To Success" begins: "Marisa Tomei hopes to join the host of actresses honored for playing strippers and prostitutes." Hopes to be part of that crew? Really? More »
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If you've wondered where strippers go once they're off the clock, Blackbook finds out. (Spoiler alert: all the same tacky, boring places you go. The difference is that they almost always get comped.) [BlackBook] More »
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Looking for a way to lose a few pounds and celebrate Women's Self Empowerment Week? Order your at-home exotic dancing workout DVD now and get a stripper pole for just a dollar! More »
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Today, Tyra featured an issue that I've thought a lot about and haven't heard many mainstream people discuss: How different women in different aspects of the sex industry view one another. It's always seemed odd that women in such a controversial line of work would even bother to be judgmental of what the next person does, but there's a silent hierarchy that exists within the sex industry, e.g., topless models look down on girls who go bottomless, girls who go bottomless look down on girls who strip, strippers look down on porn stars, porn stars look down on hookers, etc. During the episode, Tyra had the women rank one another in order from most respectable to least respectable, and obvs, hilarity ensued. Clip above. More »
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The economy's hitting Wall Street hard. And obviously one of the first areas to feel the pinch — or lack thereof — is the exotic dancing racket. With all the big spenders hitting the proverbial breadline — or at least cutting back on, um, luxuries — TMZ says, "we're told first-hand by the pole-gymnasts at joints like the Penthouse Executive Club in NYC" that the champagne room is dead and that the bills being thrust at them are now singles. The thing is: You can't tell until you look later, so you always have to give 100%. Right? [TMZ] More »
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• Amsterdam hosted a European pole dancing championship last Friday in hopes of showing that the activity is a physically-challenging sport for "regular" women. • Ugh: A study of 4-year-olds in Australia suggets that parents are unintentionally enforcing "body ideals" in their children along gender lines (e.g., girls need to exercise more to loose weight; boys need to eat more to gain muscle). • A study of college students reveals that celebrity-loving can boost people's self-esteem because they assign celebrity traits to themselves. • A 35-year-old woman had a stroke after sex due to a possible combination of birth control pills, a venous blood clot, sex, and a heart defect. • More »
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An American hiker in the Bavarian Alps who was stranded for 3 days was rescued after she attached her sports bra to a cable used by lumberjacks to get their attention. • A new study has found that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women. • Lesbians are barred from donating blood in China because they are semantically lumped in with gay males and therefore thought of as being "high-risk" for HIV. • How long until there is a mass squealing conservative outrage over this JC Penney "teen sex" ad? • Strippers are suing top strip joints in L.A. over unpaid wages and tips and making the strippers pay other workers in the clubs. • Oh, also, high gas prices are hurting legal brothels in Nevada that relied heavily on randy truckers with extra (probably company) cash. Hard times. • The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution to reclassify rape as a "weapon of war." It's about time. • Female college students in England have been warned about whistling at construction workers near their college. However, no complaints have been made and no women have come forward about the whistling. More »
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Necessity is the mother of invention, as these stripper shoes with a tip jar in the platform would illustrate. And at $47.99, they cost less than the price of a lap dance. [Funky Pair via Reverse Cowgirl] More »
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