# Does anyone do strip-tease acts any more? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702 "2007-09-27T17:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/1 "2007-09-27T17:06:27Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/2 "2007-09-27T17:07:52Z")
Several women are doing sexy strip dancing you described right now. In my head. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/3 "2007-09-27T17:10:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/4 "2007-09-27T17:13:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/5 "2007-09-27T17:22:52Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/6 "2007-09-27T18:33:17Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/7 "2007-09-27T18:41:24Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] 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? [/QUOTE] I’ll bet you’re thinking of David Rose’s “The Stripper.” ---
**Author:** ![zyzzyva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/8 "2007-09-27T18:45:21Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] 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? [/QUOTE] 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](http://www.amazon.com/Stripper-David-Rose-Orchestra/dp/B000006ZVI). I find it highly amusing that on this CD it’s only two tracks removed from “Amazing Grace”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/9 "2007-09-27T19:23:10Z")
Amazing Grace the stripper? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/10 "2007-09-27T19:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] Amazing Grace the stripper? [/QUOTE] How sweet the sound! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/11 "2007-09-27T19:54:26Z")
From what I’ve seen of the Suicide Girl DVD, their stripteases do involve a lot more teasing than your typical strip club. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/12 "2007-09-27T20:03:18Z")
[QUOTE=zyzzyva] 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](http://www.amazon.com/Stripper-David-Rose-Orchestra/dp/B000006ZVI). I find it highly amusing that on this CD it’s only two tracks removed from “Amazing Grace”. [/QUOTE] If you want to buy strip music, you want this album [Take It Off! Striptease Classics (Rhino Records)](http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=72724) The first track is “The Stripper - David Rose & His Orchestra”. I have the album at home, it’s fun to play at parties. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/13 "2007-09-27T20:08:18Z")
Aren’t ‘no touch’ lap dances the ultimate tease? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/14 "2007-09-27T20:33:53Z")
There’s always the World Famous BOB. Marc ---
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/15 "2007-09-27T20:47:51Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/16 "2007-09-27T21:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] 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? [/QUOTE] Warrant - Cherry Pie? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/17 "2007-09-27T22:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=MGibson] There’s always the World Famous BOB. Marc [/QUOTE] 😕 Surely you don’t mean, [“Bob”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs)? (“Bob” doing a strip-tease act . . . now **there’s** a brainmelter of a thought . . .) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/18 "2007-09-27T22:36:15Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] 😕 Surely you don’t mean, [“Bob”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs)? (“Bob” doing a strip-tease act . . . now **there’s** a brainmelter of a thought . . .) [/QUOTE] Whoa. I’d never heard of this…“religion” before. Do people take this seriously, or is it one of those “ironic” things? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/19 "2007-09-27T23:28:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702/20 "2007-09-27T23:37:47Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] Whoa. I’d never heard of this…“religion” before. Do people take this seriously, or is it one of those “ironic” things? [/QUOTE] It falls under the heading of, “Ha, ha, only serious!” [But judge for yourself.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius)[**OR KILL ME!!!**](http://www.subgenius.com/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-do-strip-tease-acts-any-more/420702.md?page=2)