Blog 4. Who attends strip clubs most?

When I first posted my poll, I though well for sure everyone would say straight men attend strip clubs, and the majority of the class did, but when I posted the question I was debating with myself on if straight men or gay men attended strip clubs more. According to my research the class was right straight men to attend strip clubs more, but straight women do as well. In many of my seaches I found headlines like "I want to go to a strip club with my boyfriend" and "Is it a good idea to take my girlfriend to a strip club?" The most interesting one I found was "Why strip clubs are good for your marriage." When I read this I was set back, and thought how could this ever be a good thing but as I read more I found that this was all about trust. "My wife knows she has nothing to worry about and neither so most woman. She knows that I would not blow her trust by paying a scantily clad woman $500 to take my pasty, fat married a**into some back room for an hour. No good can come of that."(Cleary, Mike) You can not expect all men to be this way. In that story the Mike Cleary says that he and his wife have been married 16 years and don't have a great realationship with each other. To make this work it all depends on the status of your realationship. Some women don't every wont their husband or boyfriend to go to a strip club ever in their lives. Others join their husbands and boyfriends and find going to the strip clubs gives a boost to their sex life. (about.com) I think that the fantasy of being with the other woman is intriguing, but the men know that they can't be with those woman so they realize what they already have is the best thing in the world. Im sure that the wife's and girlfriends feel self conches seeing this beautiful, skinny woman, but at the end of the night she is the one that is going home with a man who loves her. All of the research I did came to one conciliation, if you set rules as a couple and follow those rules a strip club is a harmless environment.

This is a clip form a movie that many people know that is showing a couple going to a strip club together. They are not there for pleaser but it is still funny

As a class the poll was very accurate but I also wanted to look into gay men, because you see it on TV and you heir about it all the time. It is a stereotype but is it a true stereotype? When I did research on gay men going to strip clubs I could not find statistics or a good cite that said anything about gay men attending strip clubs. The only thing that I found that led me to believe that the stereotype is true is I found many addresses to gay clubs. There are many cites that are "gay travel" cites that help gay and lesbians navigate through a city. I think if a gay man or a lesbian woman did attend a gay bar it would be more for the purpose of meeting other homosexuals, not to see the dancers. This also makes since to me because I think it would be hard to meet other homosexuals in a big city or really anywhere.

Over all straight men attend strip clubs most frequently. Straight woman will go with their boyfriend or husband. They will also get a male stripper for a bachelorette party. Gay men go to gay bars but not for the same reason. I did not find to much about lesbian women, but I did read that they will attend a normal strip club because it is attractive to them, which only makes since. As I was doing my research I was shocked at what I found about the couples going together, but I underused why a couple would. This made me think I hope it makes you think also.

Works Cited

Cleary, Mike. "Why Strip Clubs Are Good For Marriage | YourTango." Smart Talk About Love | YourTango. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://www.yourtango.com/200913788/strip-clubs-help-my-marriage/page/2>.

"Strip Clubs - Would You Let Your Husband Go to the Strip Club?" Newlyweds. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. <http://newlyweds.about.com/u/ua/lovesex/Strip-Clubs-Would-You-Let-Your-Husband-Go-To-The-Strip-Club.htm>.

I had a very hard time finding a good credible cite for the research I was finding. I thought that Newlyweds from about.com was a good credible cite because people now the cite and are familiar with it. The YourTango cite is kind of pushing it but I feel that this is also okay because it is a story that this man is telling and there is an author. This man was not ashamed of his story and not afraid to out his name on it so I think that is must be good.

Blog 3, Stripping today.

"While your up there I don't want you going to any strip clubs" " Honey it's Napa Valley, I don't even think there are strip clubs in wine country" "Well I'm sure if there is Phil will sniff one out, and just think the poor girl that is up there half naked and dry humping the F***ing stage thats somebody's daughter up there."- The Hangover

Stripping is viewed differently by people. Some people, like the lady in The Hangover, see strip clubs as dirty places and the girls are dirty woman that are putting sham on their families. Others see strip clubs as a fun place to go with your buddies for a bachelor party and just every once and a while. Some may go to a club on a regular basses to relive stress and watch beautiful woman. No matter witch way you look at a strip club or a stripper there are goods and bad's and some truths and some false to each opinion.

Woman seem to be more anti-strip club than men. They view them as dark places were perverted men go to gouache at naked woman. Many woman say that the girls the work at the club are "victims" and "being degraded by men."(Yahoo) Men objectify woman when they are in these venerable positions. Woman are not objects and the is why many woman sympathies with the girls that strip. It is not only the men that woman don't like about strip clubs they also don't like the woman that work at them. The main misconception about strippers is a girl who had a horrible child hood and has bad self-esteem and the only way she can feel good about herself is if she is reveling her to herself. Woman also hate the idea of their sugnifigent others going to these clubs. The idea of their husbends not getting there plesere form them is enough to make these woman crazy, and judge what they don't know anything about.(Yahoo)

The other side to the stripping against is the pro side. Many people see stripping as a form of great entertainment. A strip bar is a great place to go with friends to have some harmless fun for a birthday or a bachelor party. "These woman are making good money and are making the choice to work there" (Yahoo) There are many reasons for going to a Gentlemen's club but, the number one reason men go to strip clubs is because there's a 100% chance they will see a naked women. Men love women's bodies and no straight man would deny it.(AskMen) At cubs the more they see, the better. The don't need to ask, beg, or pay (except at the door and donations if they want). It helps take the stress off men to see these beautiful woman. Men often fantasize about women, at a Gentlemen's club they can see beautiful women and have secret affair with no strings attached. (AskMen) Just look, no touch. "Though most men accept the fact that they don't have a Barbie look-alike as a partner, they can still dream. By seeing women of equivalent beauty that are completely nude and seemingly vulnerable (even though most strippers are in complete control of what they do), going to a strip joint allows them to get closer to that fantasy."(AskMen) 

In general men are the mane attendance to strip clubs but women also will attend male strip clubs and get strippers for a party like a bachelorette party. All in all there are two sides to every story, you can decide what you think. 

Works Cited 

Laredo, Mike. "Why Are so Many Women against Strip Clubs? - Yahoo! Answers NZ." Yahoo! Answers - Ask Questions & Get Answers On Any Topic! Yahoo, 2010. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. <http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100810014046AAXylYz>. 

"Why Do Men Love Strip Clubs?" AskMen. Pythian Remite DBA, 1996. Web. 2011. <http://www.askmen.com/dating/vanessa/vanessa7.html>. 

Blog 2, The History of stripping

Stripping has been used as a form of entertainment for mostly male audeinses for years. Stripping is preformed all over the world in differnet forms. A strip club in the Middle East could be very different compared to a strip club in the United States. In general, strip clubs provide a relaxing atmospher where men can go to watch beautiful woman dance. They were created to a sanctuary were men can go to relax and have a safe envirement to get adalt X rated entertainment. Strip clubs offer men a distraction from the stressors of everyday life.
Stripping has always been looked down apon. People have always said that it is disgusting and that strip clubs were dirty. In fact They are not dirty at all, they are dark with bright lights so the audience can see the girls. They have many couches with large plush pillows and even have specialty V.I.P. rooms. But because of the bad talk and the negativity, stripping has struggled to stay legal since its earliest days. This is because stripping is often confused with and compared to prostitution. This is not at all true. Strippers are just dancers. They preform a dance commonly with a prop like a poll or a chair. The dancers very, very rarely have intercourse with the clients.
Two of the first strip clubs in England were the Moulin Rouge and the Windmill theater. In the early years to make stripping legal, at the Windmill Theater the woman were not allowed to move their bodies while they were nude. At this time many ladies used ropes to change there position, woman also used fans. Fan dancing is a form of dancing were the girls have all the control of how much skin they want to show. This is a very exciting form of entertainment for the men because it is that element of surprise and anticipation. The women who wanted to strip and the men that wanted strippers had to fight for the right to do what they want. These two clubs my have been the first two actual clubs in England but no one can really say where and when the first strip clubs were located, but forms of dancing for entertainment were used all through history.
People would say that America is the founding country of actual stripping. In 1916 the Minsky brothers, New York, were the first to come up with the word striptease. The idea of a lap dance is also a completely American concept. Although no one knows were the notion of the pole came from, erotic dancing has been around for centuries in the Eastern cultures. So did Stripping start in America or the Eastern countries? No one can really say because these clubs, customers, and girls have not spoken of their activities. No matter what people say good or bad, woman and men are still ashamed to say they go to or work at a strip club because it is socially frond upon, it is also not what daddy wants his baby girl to be doing.

Works Cited

Dando, Zoe. "A 'brief' History of Stripping." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Web.

Woodward, Anna. "Strip Clubs: The History of Stripping." National Tollfree Directory Artices. STR Business Media, 2011. Web.