In response to a request by Gypsy Rose Lee, what term for a striptease performer was coined by the H. L. Mencken after he channeled his inner Greek and thought of invertebrate molting?
"of World War II. When entrepreneur Shigeo Ozaki saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform, he started his own striptease revue in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood. During the 1950s, Japanese ""strip shows"" became more sexually explicit and less dance-oriented, until they were eventually simply live sex shows. Recently pole dancing has come to dominate the world of striptease. In the late 20th century, pole dancing was practised in exotic dance clubs in Canada. These clubs grew up to become a thriving sector of the economy. Canadian style pole dancing, table dancing and lap dancing, organized by multi-national corporations such as Spearmint Rhino, was"
"DVD called, ""Crazy Horse Paris"" featuring Dita Von Teese was released. ""Magic Mike"" (2012) features a male stripper Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) guiding a younger male stripper in his first steps into stripping in clubs. Notes Further reading Striptease A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a ""stripper"" or exotic dancer. In Western countries, the venues where stripteases are performed on a regular basis are now usually called strip clubs, though they"
"she achieved fame in her shows, which included groups of dancers and bodybuilders; Gypsy Rose Lee, immortalized in the famous autobiographical musical ""Gypsy"". Her innovations consisted of a casual style, against the spasmodic movements of other strippers (she emphasized the joke during the striptease) and brought a keen sense of humor to her performances. She was one of the main stars of the Minsky's Burlesque, with whom she worked four years. Working with the Minsky brothers was arrested several times. Another important figure of this time was Novita ""The Pixie of Burlesque"", one of the founders of the Exotic Dancers"
"Striptease A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a ""stripper"" or exotic dancer. In Western countries, the venues where stripteases are performed on a regular basis are now usually called strip clubs, though they may be performed in venues such as pubs (especially in the UK), theaters and music halls. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at a bachelor or bachelorette party. In addition to providing adult entertainment, stripping"
"the U.S., there are laws forbidding the exposure of female nipples, and thus dancers must cover their nipples with pasties to comply with those laws. Such clubs are known as ""pastie clubs"". A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sensual manner. while doing so, the performer will make sure that the client feel warm, listened to and forget his problems. The main job of a stripper is to entertain and keep the clients on dreaming while being a semi ""psychologist"".The person who performs a striptease"
"encircled the nude host and/or his friends in his swimming pool"", ""an African-style ritual"" performed for male spectators by ""20 naked young women"", or erotic entertainment hosted by a rich host involving pole dancing and competitive striptease by skimpy-costumed ""women in nurses' outfits and police uniforms"" – but topless women, the prize being prostitution for the host. An alternative explanation for its origins was proposed by actress Sabina Began, who claimed that it was a nickname based on her surname and that she had organized the parties. The lexicographer Jonathon Green does not expect the term to make much headway,"
"a performer with credits such as contest titles or appearances in adult films or magazines. The decades-old practice continued through the late 2000s (decade) to the present day with high-profile adult film performers such as Jenna Haze and Teagan Presley scheduling feature shows through the USA. In December 2006, a Norwegian court ruled that striptease is an art form and made strip clubs exempt from value added tax. In the latter 1990s, a number of solo performers and dance groups emerged to create Neo-burlesque, a revival of the classic American burlesque striptease of the early half of the 20th century."
"Honeysuckle Divine Honeysuckle Divine (born Betty Jane Allsup; January 21, 1938) is a retired American stripper, erotic performance artist, and sexual columnist. Her specialty was inserting and ejecting things from her vagina onstage; when she performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, she was described in the program as ""vaginiste"", a performer using the vagina. She was often arrested. According to Bruce David, editor of ""SCREW"" in the 1970s, then editor of ""Hustler,"" she was at one point the best-known stripper in the United States. She is particularly associated with ""SCREW"", for whom she was a sort of mascot. As Al"
"again when Rose Chan took over the centre-stage in the 1950s. Rose Chan Wai Cheng, who was China-born but locally raised, took up her striptease act when she was 27. She was known as the local ""Queen of Strip"" and took her acts around the three Worlds. She was famous for her python act; in which she cavorted with a large and sinuous python, coiling it provocatively round her bare body. Despite being labelled by conservatives as a 'rebel', she was kind hearted and gave money to charities and orphanages. She gave up her striptease career when she embarked on"
"became common enough on its own. One of the better-known troupes of male strippers are the Chippendales. Male strippers have become a popular option to have at a bachelorette party. A variation on striptease is private dancing, which often involves 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. Variations include private dances like table dancing where the performer dances on or by customer's table rather than the customer being seated in a couch. From ancient times to the present day, striptease was"
"Mermaiding Mermaiding (also referred to as artistic mermaiding, mermaidry, or artistic mermaid performance) is the practice of wearing, and often swimming in, a costume mermaid tail. It is difficult to determine exactly where the term mermaiding was coined; however, some of the first professional freelance mermaids appeared on the world scene around 2004, such as Hannah Mermaid, Mahina Mermaid, and Mermaid Linden, who were all playing with the term. A little later on, the term was brought to a wider use and community by Iona the Mermaid, co-founder of MerNetwork.com. In the beginning of the twentieth century mermaiding was sometimes"
"Stripper A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at a bachelor party or other private event. Modern Americanized forms of stripping minimize interaction by strippers with customers, reducing the importance of ""tease"" in the performance in favor of speed to undress (""strip""). Not every stripper will end a performance completely nude, though full nudity is common where not prohibited by law. The integration of the burlesque pole as a nearly ubiquitous prop has shifted"
"The term ""striptease"" was first recorded in 1932, though ""stripping"", in the sense of women removing clothing to sexually excite men, seems to go back to at least the late 19th century. There is a stripping aspect in the ancient Sumerian myth of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the Underworld (or Kur). At each of the seven gates, she removed an article of clothing or a piece of jewelry. As long as she remained in hell, the earth was barren. When she returned, fecundity abounded. Some believe this myth was embodied in the dance of the seven veils"
"ranging from tribal to sporting and ritual or religious events. In an episode of ""In Our Time"" broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means ""dog"" due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances. Western cultural theorists often trace performance art"
"predatory activities of prostitutes. The Latin verb ""prōstō"" meant ""to be up for sale"" and ""prōstituō"" meant ""to expose for public sale."" The poet Juvenal (6.120-3) describes how the disgraced Empress Messalina used to enjoy playing the part of a prostitute in a brothel: The man in charge of the brothel, who dismissed the girls at closing time, was the pimp or ""lēnō"" (Juvenal 6.127). The neuter word ""scortum"" could refer to either a male or female prostitute. This word may relate to Latin ""scorteus"", ""made of leather or hide"", much as English refers to the ""skin trade"". Lewis and"
"impersonator, publicly identified himself as a gay man. He is famous for his innovative Oriental dance in various performances. For example, he once played the role of harem master in the show ""The Girl in the Gilded Cage"", with his flexible body contorting in a series of peculiar postures. The sexualized and racialized performances caused the club to become a spot for sex tourism, attracting LGBT clients from all over the world. Another popular club for sex tourism and LGBT clients in Chinatown was Li Po, which, like Forbidden City, combined western entertainment with ""Oriental"" culture. It was advertised in"
"high school"" after moving with her mother to Los Angeles.) Coates is listed (as Gypsy Stell) among the alumni of Los Angeles City College. Originally billed as Gypsy Stell, Coates was allegedly discovered in 1943 by vaudeville comedian Ken Murray in a Hollywood and Vine restaurant from whom she learned comic timing. She subsequently appeared as a dancer and a comedienne in skits for ten months in ""Blackouts"", his ""racy"" (mildly risqué) variety show. Along with Murray and other comedians, the show included showgirls, tap dancers, bird acts and Marie Wilson as the stereotypical ""dumb blonde"". She later performed as"
"life as well as knowing numerous playwrights and acting alongside the famous actor David Garrick, who was also frequently painted by Reynolds and Gainsborough. Muse of Tragedy: Melpoméne is a character from Greek and Roman mythology, one of nine muses of the arts. She was originally the Muse of Song but then became the Muse of Tragedy. Singing was often utilized in Greek tragedies, which is how the transition from Melpoméne's identification with song shifted to tragedy. The name Melpoméne comes from the Greek word melpo or melpomai, which means """"to celebrate with dance and song. """"In many statues and"
"the sea in leather loincloths"". She then joined 'Generating Company', also known as 'Genco', a circus theatre group, appearing with them around Europe. In 2002, she performed at the Privilege night-club on the island of Ibiza, better known for its sex shows. In 2003, ""The Sunday Times"" reported on her work as a trapeze artist and acrobat, calling her ""one of Britain’s leading exponents... Nobody can question her hard work and bravery"" and noting that she was at the cutting edge of modern circus. She then had spiky pink hair, with a black badger streak, and a chin stud. In"
"continued, she had an epiphany one night and she says that on that night,"" as if from the goddess herself,"" the name “Annie Sprinkle” came to her. She thought the name appropriate because ""I was attracted by the sprinkles over ice cones (I am a bit of a sugaraholic!) and I love waterfalls, urine, vaginal fluids, sweat, anything wet. So the name 'Annie Sprinkle' seemed perfect."" Annie Sprinkle Annie M. Sprinkle PhD (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American certified sexologist, sex educator, former sex worker, feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor,"
"acting, vedettes often included groups of dancers, flashy and revealing costumes, magicians, comedians, jugglers, and even performing animals. Vedettes specializing in burlesque generally do striptease and may also perform nude on stage. In the 20th century, vedette shows were successful in the cabarets, theaters and nightclubs of countries such as Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico. Paris and Las Vegas were considered the main cradle of the vedettes. ""Vedette"" is a French word originally used to designate an artist of great fame and notoriety. The term underwent changes over the years. From the early twentieth century, it began to be used"
"Logan McCree Logan McCree (born Philipp Tanzer on December 31, 1977), also known as Kriegerbeatz or DJ Krieger, is the stage name of a German-born DJ who began working as an adult-film actor in gay pornography in 2007, exclusively signed to the Raging Stallion Studios, a US production company with a three-year contract. He is widely known for his unique and distinctive tattoos over most of his body, including his penis, buttocks and scalp. McCree came to prominence in 2004 as German Mr. Leather. He starred in and was the cover model for his 2007 debut film, ""Ink Storm"", which"
"of ""that form of travestie which is commonly described as 'classical'—which deals with the characteristics and adventures of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, of the Greek and Latin mythology and fable"", a genre of which he was later credited as originator. Planché used costume for comedic effect, not by the costumes being comic, but by the incongruity of realistic historical dress being juxtaposed with the actions of the actors. For example, ""Olympic Revels"" opens with the gods of Olympus in classical Greek dress playing whist. By 1836 these classical burlesques had become so popular that other writers were copying"
"uncertainty of self as each room becomes a microcosmic world. These photos were published in a book of the same name in 2002. This portrait series captures thirty beautiful exotic dancers from around the globe, brought to Tokyo to engage in a multicultural striptease. Captured using Lenticular technology – a technique that imparts the illusion of movement – the women seem to dance in front of our eyes, writhing and gyrating in an endless loop. While this fate could seem melancholy, the dancers have a certain lighthearted frivolity, epitomized by the woman who winks coyly at us while performing striptease."
"going to bed with him robs him, and he ends up having to crawl out of the sewer.) The concept of strip-tease was also widely known, as can be seen in the reference to it in Thomas Otway's comedy ""The Soldier's Fortune"" (1681), where a character says: ""Be sure they be lewd, drunken, ""stripping"" whores"". Strip-tease became standard fare in the brothels of 18th century London, where the women, called 'posture girls', would strip naked on tables for popular entertainment. Strip-tease was also combined with music, as in the 1720 German translation of the French ""La Guerre D'Espagne"" (Cologne: Pierre"
"long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007. Sprinkle was born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Russian-Jewish mother and a Polish-Jewish father. She is known as the ""prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist."" Her best known theater and performance art piece is her ""Public Cervix Announcement,"" in which she invites the audience to ""celebrate the female body"" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight. She also performed ""The Legend of the Ancient Sacred Prostitute,"" in which she did a ""sex magic"" masturbation ritual on stage. She"
"Chippendales Chippendales is a touring dance troupe best known for its male striptease performances and for its dancers' distinctive upper body costume of a bow tie, collar, and shirt cuffs worn on an otherwise bare torso. Established in 1979, Chippendales was the first all-male stripping troupe to make a business performing for mostly female audiences. Through the quality of its staging and choreography, Chippendales also helped legitimize stripping as a form of popular entertainment. The company produces Broadway-style burlesque shows worldwide and licenses its intellectual property for select consumer products ranging from apparel and accessories to slot machines and video"
"Maria Kekkonen Maria Pauliina Kekkonen a.k.a. Mariah Sensuel (born 15 December 1976 in Helsinki) is a Finnish erotic actress. She worked as a stripper for about six months before becoming an erotic actress in 1996. Kekkonen has also worked as a reporter on the Finnish Aluetelevisio television channel's clone of Naked News concept. In November 2007 along with partner Olha Venäläinen, a former ballet dancer, Kekkonen introduced pole dancing to Helsinki at their studio ""Rock The Pole"". According to the University of Tampere article, various dance types, jazz, flamenco and ballet, are taught on the pole with students ranging from"
"following century. The degree to which these statutes were subsequently enforced is, of course, opened to question. What is certain is that no practice of the sort is reported in texts of the European Middle Ages. An early version of strip-tease became popular in England at the time of the Restoration. A strip tease was incorporated into the Restoration comedy ""The Rover"", written by Aphra Behn in 1677. The stripper is a man; an English country gentleman who sensually undresses and goes to bed in a love scene. (However, the scene is played for laughs; the prostitute he thinks is"
"portray feelings of intimacy and emotional connectedness for their customers, and most of the time they are overstated or false. Until the 1970s, strippers in Western cultures were almost invariably female, performing to male audiences. Male and female strippers also perform for gay and lesbian audiences respectively, as well as for both sexes in pansexual contexts. The modern male stripper show usually involves full nudity, although sometimes they may retain underwear, especially g-strings, bikini briefs or thongs throughout the show, or only remove all clothing for a brief time. Performances are usually fully choreographed, involve dance routines and a costume"
"the present day. An interesting custom in these pubs is that the strippers walk 'round and collect money from customers in a beer jug before each individual performance. This custom appears to have originated in the late 1970s when topless go-go dancers first started collecting money from the audience as the fee for going ""fully nude"". Private dances of a more raunchy nature are sometimes available in a separate area of the pub. In America, striptease started in traveling carnivals and burlesque theatres, and featured famous strippers such as Gypsy Rose Lee and Sally Rand. The vaudeville trapeze artist Charmion"
"Robot (dance) The robot (or mannequin) is an illusionary street dance style – often confused with popping – that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin. Roboting gained fame after Michael Jackson used the dance when he performed ""Dancing Machine"" with his brothers, and later performed the dance during his solo career in songs such as ""Smooth Criminal"". The robot was created in 1967; despite the dance's appearance in the 1960s, the robot goes back to the 20s, when it was used theatrically in miming. It is a dance in which the dancer moves their limbs in a way"
"States. After it ended, she appealed to her business manager Jimmie Murdock to help her become recognized as a great actress. Murdock dissuaded Menken from that goal, as he knew she had little acting talent. He offered her the ""breeches role"" (that of a man) of the noble Tartar in the melodrama ""Mazeppa,"" based on a poem by Lord Byron. At the climax of this hit, the Tartar was stripped of his clothing, tied to his horse, and sent off to his death. The audiences were thrilled with the scene, although the production used a dummy strapped to a horse,"