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...What prompts the estimated 7,000 stripteasers in the U.S. to bare all-or at least nearly all-to a theater full of several hundred men? Seeking to answer that question, two Case Western Reserve University sociologists have reached some tentative conclusions. Writing in Social Problems magazine, James K. Skipper Jr. and Charles H. McCaghy report that the girls disrobe in public out of an unrequited need for parental-especially fatherly-love...
...strippers. Some of their discoveries are on the obvious side. Given the right physical endowment, the initiate stripper finds the job professionally undemanding and very lucrative. All she is expected to do is to remove her garments serially until she reaches the locally permissible state of public nudity. Skipper's and McCaghy's subjects make from $200 to more than $1,500 a week at their work. Yet only one of them, they report, "had the talent, training or education to make more money at any other legal occupation...
...children. Behavioral science has long recognized the special stresses imposed on the first-born by parents who lack experience in child rearing. Confronted with stern and demanding disciplinarians, for example, the child frequently responds by feeling inadequate-and as a consequence unloved. In a young woman suitably well endowed, Skipper and McCaghy suggest, this sense of inadequacy can inspire her to purvey the only commodity whose value she is sure of: her body...
...windward and help it perform better in lighter winds. The bow and stern remain the same, but the afterbody has been made fuller with the addition of plastic molding. Intrepid's center steering wheel has been replaced by two wheels on either side of the cockpit, allowing the skipper to vary his vantage point. In addition to the two-wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called carbon-fiber. HERITAGE is the first 12-meter designed, constructed, sponsored and skippered by one man. He is Charles Morgan...
Doyle and Charlie Koch, alternating at skipper in Division A, placed third overall, while Reeve was second in his division...