Which is why a strip club is the perfect place for a trip into the tabboo. Because, firstly men rarely walk into the club looking proud at the thought of being there and secondly because the only women are usually on the pole, it makes it tabboo to be a customer not a dancer as a female.
Why are strip clubs considered so tabboo? The women who dance considered to be of lower class simply because of their profession after all "Your average teen star could go right on a strip stage without changing clothes," writer Lily Burana states. Surely this is a women in the know as a former stripper herself.
American ways are changing, women can unwind in a strip club as the social tabboo's loosen but over here in the UK, we have yet to see a large change, with Ladies Nights being advertised but with drag queens as apposed to the entertainment male customers recieve (The Jubile Club, Sunbury - on - Thames). Which is why we should give it a try after all, it is tabboo and therefore all the more intriguing.
As a women i want to assert my right to step into a place that formerly belonged to the male generation, not for sexual gratification but for empowerment; after all what could be more confidence boosting than seeing women who are unafraid of their own form. Sure, i have been offered and expierenced "pole dancing lessons" with a group of my peers, all female of course. However i'd like to see it set in the actual enviroment, i'd like to see the confidence exerted by the women being paid to do it, most of all, i'd like to walk in, head high without feeling smutty or ashamed and celebrate the women on stage who are unafraid of the label they are given for what they do. After all, backstage i'm sure they revert to normality.
(Picture courtesy of "Soho Archives" features women backstage at a strip club)
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