Previously i had posted some of Our/our thoughts concerning Female strippers and the male audience experience. Goddess pointed out that i had promised to write a second part concerning male strippers but never actually did it. For that of course i apologize.i think that the reason i had dragged my feet on this is that i just could not assemble a fully coherent thesis regarding this topic, the attitudes and experiences of the Female audience and the differences between the Female and male versions of this performance art form.
As You/you may have gathered from the last post i have received a comprehensive first hand crash course in male erotic dancing thanks to Goddess and Her newest business partner, the amazing Mistress Denise.
One of the things that made understanding the phenomena of male strip shows difficult is that they are a relatively recent development. From what i can tell having done some research on the topic they really didn’t become a common occurrence until the 1970’s along side the rise of Playgirl magazine and the mainstream Feminist movement.
Traditionally, under the patriarchy, male sexuality and sexual arousal were treated as taboo subjects. It was socially unacceptable to portray male sexual arousal. Even flipping through Playgirl magazines from the 1970’s and 80’s will reveal model after model sporting a thoroughly flaccid cock. male strip shows of the same era such as the Chippendale’s limited the ‘stripping’ to the men’s g-strings and no further, though the bulging contents of the dancers fabric pouches left little to the imagination. Even today there are many male reviews that limit the dancers to stripping down to the g-string and no further. In my research it seemed to me that while Women appreciated the men’s physique and performance in these shows there was often a palpable sense of disappointment at not being able to appreciate all the of the strippers 'assets'. Today however this is less of an issue with numerous opportunities for Women to fully appreciate male anatomy at a strip show.
Even today in the mainstream media such as movies it continues to be routine that Women are expected to show Their naked bodies while male sexuality is covered or not shown. Though thankfully this is changing.
i have always found it ridiculous that the same males who proclaim themselves dominant or superior are afraid that simply revealing their sexual bits will somehow lead to the fall of civilization. Perhaps what they really mean is the fall of patriarchy and male privilege.
What really seems to be at play here is fear. The fear of males revealing their greatest weakness, the one that exposes all their macho attitudes for the nonsense that it actually is. For while a Women’s sexuality remains hidden and mysterious even when She is nude, a males sexuality is fully revealed to the world the moment the last bit of fabric is pulled away. The males fully visible arousal is an undeniable and uncontrollable testimony to Women’s sexual power over males. How can a male deny a Woman’s innate ability to so thoroughly dominate his mind when the evidence of that power is standing erect for All/all to see? There is really no equivalent overt state the male can elicit in the Female, which massively tilts the balance of sexual power in Her favor.
Add to that the exposed male ball sac, hanging there, a vulnerable, swinging target for any Female who wishes to assert Her authority. One slap of the sac of even the most hulking male by the most petite Female will send said male crumpling to the ground in agony. MotherNature may have endowed the male with a size and strength advantage but She also saw fit to make him extremely vulnerable. To the Female She endowed unspeakable beauty that males can’t resist, superior intelligence and the socialization skills needed to build a society plus the very source of life itself within Her powerful sexuality. It has always seemed obvious to me that Women have been endowed with all the qualities of social leadership and are fully equipped to exploit the only advantages endowed to men, physical strength, for the greater good.
Now this may seem like a bit of a detour from the topic at hand but it does explain the patriarchal resistance to public displays of male sexual arousal, now thankfully crumbling along with the patriarchy. It also I think it helps explain what I have witnessed of the Female experience of viewing male strip shows.
It’s a very social activity.
Women attend the shows in groups and enjoy the performances collectively. One/one doesn’t often see a solitary Woman transfixed on the male dancer. Instead there is a cacophony of Feminine voices, laughter and commentary directed not just at the male displaying himself but towards each other. The Girls share comments and opinions about the males. They encourage each other to engage in risque behavior towards the boys. This is about having fun, Female bonding and expressing Themselves as Women at men's expense.
There is also an obvious element of the joy that comes from sexually objectifying males. Today's Alpha-Girls have few inhibitions with what They regard as Their right to treat men as sexual playthings. These Women are used to controlling Their own lives and sexuality and don’t feel They have to be ’nice’. i think many male dancers are quite shocked at first at the aggressiveness of many of the Female audience members towards them. i know i was quite surprised at first but soon got over it and learned to enjoy it. i have been subject to and have witnessed a range of behaviors from raunchy ‘catcalls’ about my man parts, being slapped on the ass, having my ass-cheeks grabbed and pinched and my nipples tweaked. On occasion i’ve even had my ball sac grabbed at and my cock grabbed or pumped a couple of times. Management frowns upon hand-jobs so we are expected to extricate ourselves from those types of situations when they develop no matter how much we might enjoy just standing there and being pleasured.
This aggressive behavior is typically encouraged by social pressure among the Women. There’s clearly an element of pushing boundaries and the thrill of humiliating males. Today’s Alpha-Girl’s aren’t in the least bit intimidated by males despite their size and strength advantage. They routinely outclass males in education and the workplace. These Women know they have all the Goddess given tools to manipulate and control just about any male. males when confronted by an aggressive Alpha-Female naturally yield or are intimidated. It’s really our natural state to yield to and obey Women, especially confident and assertive Women. There have even been studies done showing that males in relationships with high-earning Alpha-Females see their testosterone levels drop. The male ego has always been a crude defense mechanism against Feminine power, one however whose manifested juvenile behaviors are increasingly not tolerated by the Superior Sex.One thing a male stripper learns quickly, i think, is to banish any latent male ego from his personality. It’s virtually impossible to maintain any pretense of a male ego while engaging in an activity that is fundamentally, lets face it, rather humiliating and degrading. It’s rather difficult to hold patriarchal values on the one hand while holding your hard cock in the other hand so a room full of screaming Female lawyers, stockbrokers, doctors and collage students can take your picture with Their smart-phones and try to grab at you. In essence They’ve bought the dancers male sexuality and put it on display for their own amusement so the men are expected to behave accordingly.
Strangely male dancers often do develop a kind of machismo which is subtly different than male ego. It’s not about thinking themselves better than Women but instead being a kind of Adonis, irresistible to Females. One/one can usually see this manifested in dancers who swing and thrust their cocks at the customers. Typically however their assessment of their attractiveness is greatly exaggerated. It’s usually just met with howls of derisive laughter from the Women who are more embarrassed for him then anything else.
The aggressive behavior of the Women towards the strippers is actually encouraged by the combination of the group social dynamic among the Females as well as the atmosphere in the clubs. In some male strip clubs the dancers are actually expected by management to encourage the customers to touch and feel them. Often dancers will bring Women from the audience on stage and allow Them to handle the goods even if only momentarily. Table dances are routine and here the dancers not only grind against the customer but allow them to cop a feel. Personally when giving a table dance one of my favorite moves is to bend over a bit and present my ass which almost without fail the customer will take the opportunity to run Her hands across. The tingling sensation always makes my cock twitch and never fails to catch the attention of one of the Girls in the group who screams, pointing out my excited manhood to Her friends who demand a look, provoking howls of laughter and giggling. Its super humiliating and i absolutely love it!
None of this sort of aggressive interaction would ever be tolerated at a Women’s strip club where the men are expected to always keep their hands to themselves, no matter how tormenting the Girls are, or else be tossed out the door. i assume since the male dancers are not really physically threatened by the Women this behavior is deemed OK. This of coarse doesn’t happen at all clubs.
One phenomena that does happen at the clubs is the dancers hooking up with the customers. Our/our clientele tends to be mostly professional Women or students on similar career paths. These are Women who are not accustomed to being told ‘no’. So if They see something They like They aren’t shy about going after it. i’ve seen Women use a Sharpie to write their phone number on a dancers butt-cheek , slip them a note or wait outside the club for some guy to come out. These are more often then not laser-focused career Women who are just looking for some fun and/or sex with a hot guy, not something long term. Most of the guys who work at the club are really working class. Most work jobs like construction where the work comes and goes so stripping part time affords them a nice supplemental income not to mention engaging in an activity they enjoy that lets them meet beautiful successful Women who would otherwise be off limits.
my fellow dancer and friend robert often talks to me about his hook ups. robert told me about Hannah, a stunning corporate lawyer who one night pulled him aside as he was serving drinks in the club (here many dancers fulfill different roles on different nights). There was nothing shy about Hannah. Instead of ordering a drink like robert expected She grabbed the front of his g-string, pulling it open and dropping Her business card inside before releasing him and letting the fabric snap closed. robert winced as the card scrapped against his balls. Being busy he had to spend the next hour with Her card shuffling around in his tight covering.
They did indeed hookup the next night he was off and They/they had fantastic, hot sex. They kept hooking up one or two times a week after that. But that’s all it was. Hannah had made it clear She was only really interested in him as Her boy-toy and not in anything serious or long term. rob was actually ok with that, as he put it,
“where else is a guy like me ever going to hook up with a Women like Hannah”
Recently the sex has become less frequent but rob has undertaken a new role in Hannah’s life. A couple of days per week he takes care of the garden, cleans Her pool, vacuums and tidy’s up Her house, washes Her BMW and does whatever other household chores Her busy schedule doesn’t allow.
“i started out as Her boy-toy and became Her houseboy. It’s ok though She pays me well”
robs experience shows how the wider economic shifts in society are showing up in the club. The Women who come in here are full of cash, have advanced degrees and high powered jobs. Any one of them probably makes 5-10x or more in income compared with what any of the guys working here makes.
Its like there are two worlds that merge in the the club on a busy night.
The Worlds of;
Women vs men
Rich vs not rich
Upper Class vs lower class
Ambition vs ‘getting by’
Educated vs under-educated
Brain Work vs brawn work
This world in the male strip club is in fact a microcosm of the developing Female dominated society around us. It presents new challenges. How will Venus and mars ever get together if they are worlds apart? Can Venus ever accept a lower class mate in a serious relationship. Apart from physical sexual pleasure what can They/they offer to each other?
i believe that for the most part the emergent gap between Women and men is in fact a natural phenomenon. Once Women forced the patriarchy to allow them to be on equal footing with men the Girls simply used Their natural talents and abilities to run away with the game.
The momentum is on Their side and the gaps will only grow more pronounced.
How on earth will We/we bridge this increasing inequality?
Well i think we actually need to forget about this notion of equality between the sexes.
i think the preponderance of evidence supports the position that Women are clearly superior to the male of the species. Even more so at the kinds of skills and talents needed in the modern economy.
So many men today seem lost, they have fallen behind in skills and education, had their careers stall or completely broken down.
This is not the fault of Women. Women have fully earned Their success through natural talent and hard work. we should celebrate Their success.
So i propose another path;
Instead of being in competition with Women males should be of service to Women.
The fact that Women are so successful and busy creates countless opportunities for males to be of service.
I believe that men like robert and myself are actually the future. we have found ways to be of service to successful beautiful Women. we use our bodies to entertain Women, our strength to do all the tasks Their busy careers don’t allow time for and our companionship is highly valued.
males need to get over this idea that we have to out-compete Women. Face it, it’s not going to happen. For millennia males have used their physical strength and outright violence to repress Women.
Then the world began to change. Women rose up and demanded equality with men.
Perhaps little did They realize They could never be man’s equal.
They could only be his better.
Seriously men, think about this.
Have you ever looked, really looked, at a beautiful Women and asked yourself honestly,
‘How can i compete with that?’
you simply can’t and i think you know it. we all know it even if sometimes our fragile male ego resists the thought.
There are so many possibilities for us in this new world.
i have been lucky enough to have been accepted by a beautiful Superior Goddess to worship at Her boot, under Her whip in total abject service to Her. i am blissfully happy!
For robert he has found a fulfilling role taking care of Hannah’s house, pleasing Her sexually when She desires and otherwise entertaining Women at the club.
There is a world of possibilities.
males need to understand that it’s OK to;
-earn far less than a Women
-have a Female boss
-be a Women’s houseboy
-let Women use you just for sex
-be a kept man
-be a househusband
-let Her be the leader
-be a Mistresses slave
-choose a more traditionally Feminine career path
-sacrifice your career for Hers
The point is if you let go of male ego and pride then you open yourself up to a world of possibilities just by putting the Woman in your life first and supporting Women in general throughout society.
Embrace the new Female order for all it has to offer.
As more than one Women his related to me over the years;
“A man needs to be useful”
So be useful.
Ethan, Wonderful post, full of insights into the male ego. I love how you connect your individual development (getting past the male ego) with the larger societal statement you make about female superiority. If you don't mind me asking, how have you changed since your started stripping?
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LS, as always thank you for your kind words. I have another post recounting some of my personal experiences coming up very soon. I'll address your question there where i can expand on my thoughts in a more personal context. i felt i needed to get some of the more philosophical / social analysis done first independent of that. Plus i owed Everyone / everyone the second part of of the series on erotic dancing which was way overdue. Stay tuned! :-)
ReplyDeletethis was a very interesting article but i do have a disagreement at one portion when you list thing that are things men need to except some of those things really are not fair even though men do them to women if they stop neither side should do it like i can understand sacrificing a career to help your wife if she has a better job position and some men need to have her lead the house hold due to not being able to do it themselves but the whole need to except having a mistress part i disagree now i can understand why you put it because many men do act like they are the master but as i said earlier it would just be better if each side treated each-other as equals and it would make much easier for both parties. now if some men really do want a mistress etc. i can understand letting them have it but in a case where the man does not want to be a "slave" to the mistress it really is not that fair in general. and one other thing is that just using you for sex is not that fair in life easier sure you get some enjoyment but there is no real lasting bond between the two and the "union" in this scenario would fall apart over 1 disagreement unlike a actual love "union" it would be much harder to break it unlike the just sex "union" now believe me i am not criticizing your views but i feel that that specific example is a small bit to feminist for me. But all in all nice article.
ReplyDeleteI man-strip at several clubs. I never expected to see my sister at a club like that but I did. She talked me into some private strips for her girlfriends which went very well. They tipped great and liked to touch my unit. They went a little too far recently and I shot it for them. Now they want me to repeat it every time. They bought a jackoff sleeve for me which is just too good! Next they introduced me to a big cock dildo... the first time they stuck it in me I came instantly and they insisted I eat my cum. $1000 night. Now they want me to bring a fellow dancer for a duo show. All my dancer friends are gay and my sister says they'll pay extra for a gay exhibition. I asked my friend Alex if he'd join me and he jumped at the chance. Tonight I will find out just how far I can go.
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