Strip clubs are venues where strippers provide adult entertainment, russian dating norms in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances. In 2002, the size of the U. The strip club as an outlet for salacious entertainment is a recurrent theme in popular culture. 1720 depiction of a striptease event from La Guerre D’Espagne.

The term “striptease” was first recorded in 1938, though “stripping”, in the sense of women removing clothing to sexually excite men, seems to go back at least 400 years. Be sure they be lewd, drunken, stripping whores”. Its combination with music seems to be as old. Other possible influences on modern stripping were the dances of the Ghawazee “discovered” and seized upon by French colonists in 19th century North Africa and Egypt. In France during the late 19th century, Parisian shows such as the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère were featuring attractive, scantily clad, dancing women and tableaux vivants. In 1905, Dutch dancer Mata Hari, later shot as a spy by the French authorities during World War I, was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musée Guimet.