"I bet you never seen bitches twerk on water. My bitches twerk on water," says Rihanna in the behind the scenes video for her new music video for "Pour It Up", which looks to be the latest presentation of the pop star's unabashed love of strippers.
I wanted to title this Idiotic BuzzFeed Article Makes You Scroll Through Sea of NSFW Photos and Also Gifs of Buzzfeed Contributors, All in Order to See Utterly Innocuous Conversation — but, ugh, that wouldn't fit.
Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill is a conservative Christian who one time likened abortion to "destroying an eagle egg" while reintroducing a bill that would ban abortion at all stages. Since then, apparently, he has been stalked by exotic dancers. Is that a fitting punishment? I'm not sure.
Feel better about your lack of Valentines and/or worse about humanity after reading this story from Allison, an exotic dancer who told us about a creepy customer who thought that because it was Valentine's Day — well, really, because Allison's a stripper — he had the right to repeatedly disrupt her workday. You see,…
Magic Mike is making the journey from the daiquiri-stained floors of a Tampa-area strip club to the hallowed boards of Broadway, but what does that mean for you? Well, apparently the show will involve audience participation, so you probably shouldn't take your mom.
We Are Dancers NYC is a new outreach project made by and for strippers in Manhattan. Their website has legal info, health and safety tips, financial advice, and other resources for exotic dancers, and they're trying to raise money to distribute even more helpful info in strip clubs across the city.
The New York Court of Appeals in Albany upheld a lower court ruling that lap dances are not entitled to tax exemption because they're not, "dramatic or musical arts performances." Not dramatic? Really? Because there isn't a difference between "highbrow dance and lowbrow dance," in New York state law, this case could…
Being a stripper means that other people will never run out of questions for you. "How much money do you make?" "Can they touch you?" "Do you do that thing on the pole?" "Who tips better, Democrats or Republicans?"
On Saturday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law that will force strip clubs to pay an additional tax, which will in turn be used to fund programs aimed at preventing sexual assault as well as counseling sexual assault victims. The new tax is expected to haul in about $1 million a year for rape prevention programs,…
I don't know why this guy is so flustered. We all know that magicians — or illusionists, rather — also make excellent strippers.
One day, as a kid, I was dancing around to music and my mom said, "You look like you're going to be a LaBare dancer." I didn't understand at the time that LaBare was a famous male strip club in Houston. I pictured a team mascot in a bear costume jumping around on a football field.
Magic Mike made a healthy $39.16 million this past weekend, a very tidy sum for a Soderbergh film with a production budget of only $7 million. Standing in line to enter a sold-out showing on Friday night, two things were overwhelmingly obvious: First, the audience was 99% female, and second, they were positively giddy…
Happening now in Houston: A new $5 "sin tax" on strip clubs — called a "pole tax" — is expected to generate over $1 million in revenue for the city, and the cash will be used to help the city process rape kits. According to ABC News, Houston has an estimated 4,000-6,000 rape kits that have remained untested because of…
This year's Republican National Committee Convention will be held in Tampa, Florida in August. And in case you didn't already fill in your Depressing Shit Bingo card: strip clubs — America's wang's undercarriage — are anticipating an influx of convention-related business, and are offering potential customers the…
In 2007, a now-infamous study was released, finding that dancers earned significantly more money when they were ovulating versus when they weren't, and that dancers who are on hormonal birth control (which suppresses ovulation) had no income peak. The point of the study was to see if whether or not estrus—the polite,…
Looking for a job? Why not apply to be a dancer at a Vegas strip club owned by washed-up Motley Crue front man Vince Neil? What? You're holding out for Joe Elliott's place instead? Whatever, girl. It's your career.
Leave it to Houston Press writer Richard Connelly, author of "The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List," to wring his hands upon learning that Houston Chronicle writer Sarah Tressler was also working at a strip club. Tressler — who just gave her first interview this morning on GMA — is just part of a rich…
Houston society journalist Sarah Tressler has given her first interview since being outed as a stripper by newspaper the Houston Press; since the story broke two days ago, Tressler has been fired from her reporting job at the Houston Chronicle for "not revealing her off-duty dancing." Despite that misfortune, she…
Residents of Houston, ready your pearls for the clutching: it turns out that one of the city's newspapers had in its employ a woman who, while spending her days writing about society goings-on, was spending her nights taking her clothes off for a living. And the writer's secret life as an "active stripper" was…
You know what happens when the government de-funds its space program and encourages private sector entrepreneurs to lead the way to the next frontier? People decide to build space station strip clubs, capable not only of orbiting the earth but also, according to Playboy writers A.J. Baime and Jason Harper, traveling…
