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Public Nudity. They base their finding on interviews with 35 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...
More than the easy money attracts the stripper. The sociologists found that the girls share many traits that are almost prerequisites for the job: > Nearly all of them, for example, reached physical maturity early and recognized the market value of their assets. Said one girl: "Sure, after I bloomed I always dressed so people could see how big my breasts were. After all, a pair of 48s can make a girl feel like a real person. Everybody pays attention...
...this sense, stripteasing is a halfway station on the road to prostitution. Indeed, the authors report that some strippers moonlight as whores at $35 to $100 a trick to supplement their incomes. The high rate of lesbianism among strippers-which the girls estimated at 50% to 75%-is further evidence that the stripper still nurses the feeling of paternal rejection she experienced in childhood. "Strippers go gay," said one of Skipper's and McCaghy's subjects, "because they have little chance to meet nice guys...
...ordinary passage on growing old, and the market in neo-capitalist society, as well as some intense visuals suggestive of the work of Francis Bacon, animated collages of fashion models, a woman dressed in black leather whose dramatic relation (if indeed she has one) is never made clear, a stripper and a slaughter-house sequence more forceful than anything in Franju's Le Sang des Betes...
...Shock Corridor also criticizes American go- gutter ideals. Its hero, obsessed with making it, tramples on others including his girl friend- a stripper, a social outcast. Dreams of her calling to him help drive him insane. The asylum's other inmates are even more explicitly victims of social contradictions-anti-Communism and race hatred...