What do gay stripoers do

The Chippendales describe their work as "half show, half party" - a male revue that in their words "reveals what do gay stripoers do little more". I sat through the first half an hour of the Las Vegas show and saw bare backsides, simulated sex and a game too strange to describe using a banana as a prop.

Predominantly, though, it is a dance show - athletic, graceful male figures there to make the audience feel they have the power. During the course of the evening - encompassing around 15 dance routines and changes of costume that play to a stereotypical female fantasy builders, firemen, and men on motorbikes - women are able to participate as little or as much as they like.

Some volunteer to go on stage, some shout from the sidelines, all are encouraged to reach out and touch the men when they do their infamous "crowd run". Unfazed, he says: "Probably somewhere in the 40 to 50 range. Our house [theatre] holds a maximum of so even on a relatively full night we try and move around so everyone gets the maximum Chippendales experience.

You walk away, they giggle with their friends. It's more the joy that is created from it rather than the sensation itself. Let me pause here for a second to explain how on earth I got to this point. He was railing against the double standards of the MeToo movement, the banning of the grid girls - "the new Puritanism".

I can see a big issue down the line with men just getting very resentful and feeling: 'Why is it only about male behaviour? It struck a chord and made me curious enough to drop the Chippendales' agent a line while on holiday in Las Vegas. He agreed I could interview one of his clients to ask if male strip dancers felt the same level of objectification as women did.

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All my preconceptions of the "brains in the bicep'' stud are thrown out the window when I meet Ryan. I tell him I have heard tales of women so enthusiastic they have been known to leave bite marks in the Chippendales' legs, draw blood with their nails down the spine.

I understand that even though that's not really in our rules, that is in the scope of possibility. If you feel someone start to do it again, you instruct them: 'You can touch, but don't do that. This is important because nobody can feel like they are buying the dancers, singling them out, asking for attention, or favours or, ultimately, sex.

He continues: "You can't influence us. We wanted to avoid any situation like that so we like [equality] throughout the room. It is a reminder how central financial power is to this whole debate. The MeToo movement has raised awareness of the way women have been abused or objectified.

Does the same question need to be asked about men in these kind of roles? He has nothing but praise for the movement - he feels he understands his own female friends so much better now. You're not getting forced into a corner with your back - theoretical what do gay stripoers do literal - against the wall trying to escape.

I am wondering how he feels about recent workplace developments: Formula 1's banning of the "grid girls". Or the darts "walk on girls". What about boxing's "ring girls" in Vegas? It is thoughtful, it is considerate, and from what I see, it is genuinely felt. Skip to content.