Posted on 05/10/2012 8:11:16 PM PDT by SmithL
The Lusty Lady has been serving the nude dancer and peep show needs of North Beach for nearly 30 years. But now that it is facing financial problems, San Franciscans should remember the club's place in the city's colorful history.
A case can be made that the Lady is the most pro-feminist strip club in the city - and maybe in history.
In 1996, the dancers at the Lusty Lady created a national sensation when they became the first nude club to create an "exotic dancers union." Seven years later, they had another landmark moment when the dancers banded together to form a workers' cooperative and buy the club from the original owners.
The board of directors also made a point to employ diverse body types and ethnically diverse dancers. So they are exotic, erotic and politically correct. How much more San Francisco can you get?
But now the Lusty Lady's business model is failing them.
On Wednesday a few of the girls...called on the city to recognize and support this civic jewel.
Granted, once you walk over the tattered and stained rug in the back room, "jewel" is not the first word to come to mind. And it is hard to imagine San Francisco's power brokers banding together to save a venue where the business model is to insert a $1 bill (no more quarters) in a slot so customers can watch live, nude dancers through a window.
Yet the ladies argue they are one of only two privately owned venues left in the city - the rest have gone corporate with strippers that look like Barbie dolls. They don't serve alcohol (which also allows them to put on a totally nude show). And they made "talk to a live, nude girl" a local catch phrase.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Its someone from the constituency of Peel or a descendent of Sir Robert Peel. Really, you have never heard that? Peel a orange? Peel off those clothes?....remove the outer layer?
At one time a “Peeler” was a London cop. Call that after Sir Robert Peel the head of London’s police force. Later they were referred to as “Bobbies”. What it means in queer land, I do not and probably not want to know.
I don't think Lusty Lady's policy of "ethnic and body-type diversity" helps.
I've seen the inside of a strip joint. You know who makes money stripping? Attractive white girls, preferably blonde, 18-23 in age with athletic figures. It's depressing to watch the tables empty when a black girl steps on stage but that's exactly what happens.
My old skipper called those places "peel clubs" and while I had never heard the term before, it wasn't hard to figure out what he meant.
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