Stripping is not just for professional strippers, in it’s true form it’s an art. It’s an opportunity for women and men to wake up their senses, appreciate their bodies, and bare it all. It can be one of the most beautiful things you’ll ever do or witness, especially in an intimate situation. Of course, it can just be a laugh and a jiggle.
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Though the term ‘striptease’ was first recorded in 1932, no one truly knows when the striptease as a performance art originated. Various dates and occasions have been established from ancient Babylonia to 20th Century America.
References to stripping have been detected in the ancient Sumerian myth of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the Underworld (Kur), who removed an article of clothing or a piece jewelry at each of the seven gates. The earth was barren so long as she remained in hell and, when she returned, fecundity abounded.
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Some believe that this myth was manifested in the dance of the seven veils of Salome, as mentioned in the New Testament. Yet, although the Bible documents this dance, Oscar Wilde’s play of ‘Salome’ (1893) is the first to mention her removing seven veils. This erotic dance was first performed in 1905, during Richard Strauss’ operatic version of Wilde’s ‘Salome’, and soon became a standard routine for dancers in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque.
By 18th Century London, ‘Posture Girls’ would strip naked on tables to music as for the purposes of popular entertainment in brothels. London’s striptease trend evolved in areas such as Soho and Shoreditch and the shows gradually developed into more explicit ones as the years progressed.
Regarding the French striptease, a woman named Kuchuk Hanem may have been the one to influence the striptease in France. French colonialists were the ones to report Hanem’s erotic dance of the bee back to France, an Arabic custom which originated from Ghawazee in North Africa and Egypt, in which the performer disrobes as she searches for the imaginary bee trapped within her garments. The Moulin Rouge, the Folies Bergères and the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris all had vital roles in popularizing the French striptease. The shows gradually progressed from tableaux vivants in the 1880s, to the ‘dance sauvage’ in the 1920s, and finally into fully nude shows in the 1960s.
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Middle Eastern Belly dance also found its way to the Unites States and was popularized by a dancer named Little Egypt at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Travelling carnivals and burlesque theatres, such as the Minsky Burlesque (New York) put on legendary shows throughout the 1920s and it wasn’t until 1937 that a legal ruling banned these performances and led to the decline of these ‘grindhouses’.
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In the 1960s, the striptease saw a revival in America, in the form of the topless go-go dancing and, in 1969, the club ‘bottomless’ in San Francisco began the trend of the fully nude striptease. The Mitchel Borthers O’Farrell Theatre (also in San Francisco) was the club that created the lap dance in 1980, which has a major role in popularizing strip clubs from a nationwide basis to a worldwide basis.
As for Japan, well, they took a more explicit and less dance-oriented approach to the strip shows. They were the first to turn a striptease into a live sex show.
Pole dancing, born in Canada in the 1920s, is the biggest trend in the world of the striptease today and is also considered as a great form of exercise and a fun alternative to hitting the gym.
For those of you who want to undress and dance in an alluring manner in the hopes of seducing your other halves, for those of you who are looking to get fit, or for those of you who simply wish to try out it, here’s a fun and spicy playlist for you.
Striptease Playlist
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