This fall, the Internet was gripped and then convulsed by Zola and her harrowing Twitter tale of a stripping trip to Florida gone very wrong. Now, in a development we’re still working through emotionally, James Franco will direct a movie based on Rolling Stone’s story about Zola’s tweets.
San Francisco celebrity and legendary stripper Carol Doda has died from complications of kidney failure at the age of 78. Doda was one of the first dancers in San Francisco to dance topless, sparking a trend that would ultimately change the city.
Anyone who even has a cursory interest in Southern hip-hop culture knows that for decades, Atlanta’s Magic City “Adult Entertainment Nightclub” has been its fulcrum—so important in breaking and predicting hit records that superstars would rather service their tracks to its DJs than anyone at radio.
The second full-length trailer for the second-full length film about Channing Tatum’s crotch is here, and it’s got everything a horny aunt could want: waxed chests, convenience store thrusting, and Andie MacDowell, the worst actress in the world.
One day too late for Throwback Thursday, below you’ll find a photo of Marco Rubio dressed as a Chippendale’s Dancer for a high school talent show, with a full head of hair and one visible nipple. You’re welcome and I’m very, very sorry.
After Tokyo’s bubble economy burst, the Roppongi district—once an upmarket quarter with exclusive nightlife—became known for its massage parlors and sex clubs, largely staffed by foreigners. It was here that I found myself, one steamy August night, sitting in a darkened strip joint while the police knocked on the door.
It's your birthday, hurray! You're going to a strip club with a bunch of your lesbian friends, fun! You're bringing LIKE SIXTY GODDAMN PEOPLE and you want them all to act right, so you send out a long letter filled with well-intended but frequently wrong advice and thoughts on how strip-club-going squares with your…
Former NFL star/current morning show host Michael Strahan will be among the dudes who strip in the Magic Mike sequel. "It's kind of a thong thing," Strahan says of his on-screen costume. He adds: "I don't think I'm hairy on the back end, but maybe I do need to be waxed… I've never done anything like that."
I expected to be criticized for my work — I'm a porn performer — from my classmates at Duke. But from my fellow strippers, denigration for "sitting on a dick for a living" stung, if no other reason than that I didn't see it coming.
A unionized strip club run by its own crew of dancers garbed a little more alternatively than your average stripper might sound like a dream, but until this weekend, it was alive in San Francisco and it was called The Lusty Lady.
Liquid Lapdance undergarments are "special pants" — "the best strip club invention since the pole" — that make lap dances feel "exactly like sex" for men. The founders are so confident that dudes will be satisfied with/in their product that they offer refunds to those who don't orgasm in their Liquid Lapdance lap…
Performing at Madison Square Garden, the sinewy singer asked fans to throw cash at her for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Everyone is using this as an opportunity to make fun of Madge getting naked for naked's sake, but screw it. Shake your money maker for the people, you fabulous fat-free maniac!
A fitness studio in British Columbia called Twisted Grip Dance and Fitness is offering some non-sexy pole dancing classes for children, which has caused less of a stir than you might imagine if only because studio owner Kristy Craig made an admirable effort to convince parents that in no way was she trying to recruit…
Hoping to capitalize on conservative men's possibly-lingering collective crush, a Tampa Bay strip club has hired a Sarah Palin lookalike to headline during the Republican National Convention in an attempt to draw in business. But this Faux-Palin just any exotic dancer — she's adult film star Lisa Ann, who played Sarah…
For awhile, Houston Chronicle society writer Sarah Tressler was leading a double life. A mild-mannered, buttoned up writer on rich useless people's activities by day, by night she took her clothes off for money and blogged about it under the pseudonym "The Angry Stripper." She was a little like Clark Kent and…
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…
A new campaign to help Vladimir Putin recapture the Russian presidency is asking young women to strip on camera to prove that Putin has the support of "beautiful, young and smart girls." Ladies who take it off for their candidate could win an iPad2, or internet fame — says the campaign's website, "Every girl will be…
Strip clubs in Texas are supposed to pay a special tax to help fund sexual assault prevention programs. But some allege the tax violates clubs' First Amendment rights — and lots of clubs simply aren't paying.
One day after photos of Danielle Staub working as a stripper at Scores hit the internet, the former Real Housewives of New Jersey star says she has backed out of her three-year deal with the gentlemen's club and is seeking treatment for psychological problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse—from Dr. Drew. Staub…
