Finally a nice story about strippers in the mainstream press.
My only concern….she wrote this book after going to eight strip clubs?
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=407037
Every day we come face-to-fanny with the stripper-ization of pop culture, from Barbie dolls in lingerie, to pole-dancing classes, to soaring thong sales. Catherine Roach, an associate professor at the University of Alabama, who holds a PhD in religious studies from Harvard University, laid bare the origin of the phenomenon by visiting strip joints across the continent as part of the research for her new book, Stripping, Sex and Popular Culture (Berg, $32.95). We spoke with Roach to unpeel the layers and reveal the naked truth.
Strippers in the Mainstream MSN News
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Sex sells, but less than before
The downturn has been hard on smut vendors and strippers.
Playboy, that iconic purveyor of bunnies, hasn’t flashed its fourth-quarter results yet, but the writing is on the wall. Last week, Hugh Hefner’s company announced job cuts. More ominously, it is writing down at least $100 million in assets.
This is troubling because under accounting rules, companies must take assets off the books when they are deemed worthless because they won’t produce revenue. So Playboy is “telling you what financial performance will look like for the next year,” and it is saying it’s going to be bad, says one analyst who follows the company. Read more... (373 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
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