Striptease Dance
A strip club is a nightclub which specializes in striptease. Striptease performers are called, among other things, strippers or, the term preferred by those in the profession, exotic dancers.
There are two main types of dancer: feature dancers and house dancers. House dancers work for a particular strip club (or local group of clubs). Feature dancers tend to have their own reputation as a starlet, and travel from town to town, making “feature appearances”. Porn stars often earn much of their income as feature dancers.
A variation on striptease is lap dancing or contact dancing. Here the performers, in addition to stripping for tips, also offer “private dances” which involve more attention for individual audience members. The contact can vary from a simple up-close dance with no touching, to physical contact with the stripper to, in some clubs, sexual intercourse. Variations on this theme include table dancing (performer dances on or by customer’s table) and couch dancing (customer sits on a couch), or sexual acts between two female strippers, like touching, kissing, fingering and cunnilingus. Along with physical attractiveness and clothing, the main asset and toolhead used by the stripper in recent years is the stripper pole. Women are often allured into the profession due to the attractive salaries they can receive in the form of tips.
Striptease is an Ancient art: various accounts in the Bible describe the daughter of Herodias (often called Herod, who offered her anything she wished as a reward. Modern interpretations of these stories presume that this dance was, at least in part, a striptease. The Biblical account goes on to relate that, prompted by her mother, she then asked for the head of Saint John the Baptist on a platter.
Many erotic actresses and actors in the US make their main living from their earnings from personal appearances as featured strippers, in much the same way that many musicians make their main living from live performance, with their recordings serving as advertising. And Many in the striptease industry appear in erotic media to be paid more for appearing at strip clubs as “feature dancer” due to being a “porn star”, which clubs advertise to bring in a bigger paying audience. The more famous the “porn star”, the more the exotic dancer will be paid by the strip club to perform at their club.
