I’ve seen old movies, or movies set in the early-to-mid 20th Century, where a stripper is an actual stripper – that is, she starts out fully clothed and her act consists of removing items of clothing one at a time, slowly and teasingly. Tampa is world-famous for its “strip” clubs and I’ve never seen that here. The dancer might start her act in a top and shorts and, in the segue between one song and the next, briskly and unceremoniously remove them, revealing bra and thong; but it’s not the same. Her act really consists of erotic dancing and crawling and swinging on the pole, etc. Is there anyplace where they still do old-style strip-tease acts?
Several women are doing sexy strip dancing you described right now.
In my head.
There’s a burlesque scene, in New York at least. Coney Island, for example, in the summer has burlesque shows with themes. Girls come out fully clothed, with music and some kind of act, they strip down all their layers to pasties and underwear.
I vaguely remember an article in ROLLING STONE awhile back about a club called 40Deuce that features the dancers you’re talking about. I think they have a club in Vegas and in NYC.
If you EVER can catch a show with Dita Von Tease, do so. I’m a straight woman and after seeing a video of her act, I was howling at the moon. Holy CRAP, that woman would make a saint kick a hole in a stained glass window. I think daHubby was going to lie down and die at one point.
Once, at an alternative cinema, I saw a compilation of humorous sex-themed shorts. One was a live-action strip tease combined with an animated audience – really hilarious, the guys turning into werewolves and everything. One climbed up the dancer’s leg and she swatted him off like a bug (he was the size of a bug, relative to her).
While we’re at it, since we recently deconstructed the “Entrance of the Gladiators” . . . what’s the name and origin of that stereotypical stripper music?
I’ll bet you’re thinking of David Rose’s “The Stripper.”
You mean the one the brass band played in The Full Monty?
Someone might come around later to verify, but I believe the official title is actually “The Stripper,” though I’m not sure who composed it. You can listen to (or buy) it here. I find it highly amusing that on this CD it’s only two tracks removed from “Amazing Grace”.
Amazing Grace the stripper?
How sweet the sound! 
From what I’ve seen of the Suicide Girl DVD, their stripteases do involve a lot more teasing than your typical strip club.
If you want to buy strip music, you want this album
Take It Off! Striptease Classics (Rhino Records) The first track is “The Stripper - David Rose & His Orchestra”. I have the album at home, it’s fun to play at parties.
Aren’t ‘no touch’ lap dances the ultimate tease?
There’s always the World Famous BOB.
Marc
A few months, I attended a three-night burlesque festival at a big Brooklyn club that had old-fashioned stripping exactly as you described.
Why, yes! I love my city, thank you!
Warrant - Cherry Pie?
Surely you don’t mean, “Bob”? (“Bob” doing a strip-tease act . . . now there’s a brainmelter of a thought . . .)
Whoa. I’d never heard of this…“religion” before. Do people take this seriously, or is it one of those “ironic” things?
Gee, that’s disappointing that the song is actually called “The Stripper”. I’d had a notion it was written for something different and gotten co-opted as the “stripper song”.
I see that it was written in 1958–not as old as I’d thought. God, I remember those Noczema commercials from my childhood–they soldered that song into my mind forever.
It falls under the heading of, “Ha, ha, only serious!”