What makes Exotic dance clubs so popular in America? Exotic dance club or Gentelman’s clubs are very popular in American due to multiple reasons. For instance, they all aim for different types of people due to the area they are located in. In the article Doing gender, Doing class: The Performance of Sexuality in Exotic Dance Clubs by Mary Nell Trautner the theory about how gender and class are associated with strip clubs is researched. Trautner’s argument is that strip clubs make their business by making appropriate types of sexuality and femininity for certain audience, and they do this by shaping the exotic dancer into the ideal “dream girl” for that specific audience. In exotic clubs woman are expected to act as feminine as possible. They exhibit feminine dress code and behave in a feminine way. Every club also displays gender and sexuality differently. Trautner aims to find evidence that shows this because of class and race and explores her hypothesis by looking at four strip clubs in Southwestern United States. Trautner was able to directly observe and see the behavior in these clubs to find …show more content…
For instance middle-class clubs seemed to be classified as “classier” with slow sensual dancing where as working-class clubs were rowdier and more laid back. I thought the article proved a point great of Exotic dance clubs. It was interesting and solid because the author went there herself and observed the atmospheres. Critiques of the method I would say would be gender. Being at a strip club a woman might not get the same insight as a man would of, and its get to get both point of views. An aspect I would like to research next is “Are strip clubs safe”? I wonder because after reading the article and seeing what goes on especially in working-class clubs it made me think about
The first article, “The Best Night $500,000 Can Buy,” portrays the perfect night out in Las Vegas. Devin chronologically takes the reader through a night in one of the famous clubs in Las Vegas, Marquee. He describes the fundamental marketing techniques that promoters use to lure women into the venue, the prices that high-rollers pay to get a VIP access and tables, and the “shitshow” atmosphere where people are dancing as if they are on Ecstasy (some people are actually on drugs). From personal experience, Las Vegas is definitely the Disney World for adults because people can openly consume alcoholic beverages on Fremont Street while enjoying their time at the arcades, night and day clubs, pools, gambling rooms, theme park rides, shopping centers, restaurants, strip clubs, and wedding chapels. Which ultimately le...
...ong with being a stripper is not a family oriented job position. The clients are out seeking attention from another female that is not their life long partner so to think that legalized brothels are the blame for men having affairs is absurd. If a person is determined to cheat then they are destined to find a way, even if that means gaining a secret lover. The women are people just as everyone else; they just need the necessary tools to prove that. Many of the women were educated at least with a high school diploma, some came from broken homes with absent fathers, while others grew up in two-parent homes, and fewer than half reported having experienced childhood sexual abuse (pg. 67). The underlining issues presented here are the goals that society presents and the means or ability to achieve them.
In modern day society, popular culture has gained equal status to world issues and politics. Music, movies, and literature have started cultural revolutions and challenged the straight-forward thinking many individuals have accepted in the past. But while popular culture can advance new ideas and create movements, it also has the ability to challenge advancements society has made. Imani Perry’s essay, The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto, focuses on hip hop and its negative impact on women and body image.
New venues for leisure where men and women could meet and engage in unrestricted social interaction, brought a shift in the average American’s experience of courting and sexuali...
Over the course of instruction, I have gathered an understanding that Burlesque differs from other kinds of strip-tease in it’s humor and current commentary, sometimes specifically on social or political situations. The theoretical portion of the performance was the most entertaining part--the performance portion was a bit more difficult for me. As a sexual assault survivor, on-stage vulnerability (particularly involving the removal of clothing) will always been a challenge for me, but incorporating my feelings about those kinds of situations made the exercise more plausible. While any commentary on physical sexual assault is a long way off for me, other components (specifically verbal) are still a source of tension among society at large.
... Melendy’s discussion are lightly touched on in the excerpt. The article does explain how some patrons abused alcohol and would “revel in drunkenness and shame,” (Melendy, pg. 76) and even how the saloon wrecked their life. It also expresses the fact that some saloons would display nudeness and play on human lust in order to boost liquor sales. Finally, Melendy in his last sentence of the excerpt states “the youths are here [the saloon] corrupted is too well known…” (Melendy, pg. 79).
For years men and women alike have wondered the same question, that is, “Why do girls become strippers?” Well, there are three main reasons. The first reason being the opportunity for monetary gain to better their future. In Ganttageep's article, “Exotic Dancing: Illusion and Fantasy, An Exotic Dancers Path to Power”, he shows this desire for money in this following quote, “When asked why they got into the world of exotic dancing many women state that money is the main reason,” (Ganttageep.) In addition, there own personal desires play a huge role in their life changing decision. Finally, previous experiences in life and their skills and attributes greatly affect girls in their decision to become strippers.
This fieldwork aims to sociologically analyze gender roles and expectations within the movie White Chicks. In this film brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, play the role of two black FBI agents looking to get back into good graces with their superior after they accidentally ruined a drug bust. They are assigned to escort two rich white females, Brittney and Tiffany Wilson, to the Hamptons for Labor Day festivities. While traveling they experience a minor car accident, leaving the girls with a single scratch each on their face. Because of their socialite status, the sisters no longer wish to continue their trip in fear of humiliation. The agents fear losing their chance of redemption, so they decide to disguise
...ve begins generating rumors for male peers who do not qualify as a stereotypical male. For instance, Olive pretends to have sex with a male peer during a popular house party (Gluck, 2010). This imaginary hook-up benefits the male peer’s bullying dilemma. Again, gender policing occurs between men when masculinity is questioned (Kimmel, 2008). “One survey found that most Americans boys would be rather be punched in the face than called gay” (Kimmel, 2000, p.77). The gender police govern Olive’s and the male peer’s status in social standings. America’s obsession with sex disregards if a girl truly sleeps around.
The most trending music genre gets a lot of listeners because of its the discrimination. As the songs and advertisements gain followers, it starts to become realized by the citizens. Pop culture artists sing about drugs, alcohol and women. The portrayal of women by these composers is dreadful because it degrades the significance and importance of their existence. Pop culture has always been a home for gender domination and discrimination. It is becoming increasingly “pornified.” As Valenti quotes, “After all, while billboards and magazines ads may feature a ripped guy from time to time, it’s mostly women who make up what sexy is supposed to be. And it’s not just sexy-it’s straight-up sex” (Valenti, 44). The pornography has been a part of the culture and has been accepted by younger women. Feminists have argued that this has increased the inculcation of “raunch culture” in the lives of younger women who fall into it as they feel it empowers them. However, it is a kind of faux empowerment. This illustrates that the media is promoting and utilizing pop culture to change the social norms in an attempt to instruct women on their role in the society. In essence, pop culture with its propaganda desires to change women’s view on nudity until it can become inherent in American culture, and thus eliminating opposition to benefit pop culture in the long run. Valenti persuades her readers by saying, “ the ‘show’ is everywhere. In magazines like Maxim and Playboy. And in the insanity of Girls Gone Wild, with teens putting on fake lesbian make-out sessions so guys will think they’re hot.” Levy also mentions a character, influenced by raunch culture and a reader of Playboy magazines, named Erin who is piqued her curiosity and provided her with inspiration because of this culture. Erin says, “There’s countless times in my life where I know I’ve turned people on just by showing off (by putting on a
Sexualization and objectification involves taking something and making it out to be an object rather than a living thing, and making it seem like it is a sexual thing when it really isn’t. Everyday, people frown upon women for breastfeeding in public because their breasts are supposedly too “sexual” to show any part of in public. There are also chain restaurants, or “breastaurants” that require waitresses to wear revealing outfits to show off their bodies. However, in other types of establishments, such as bars, strip clubs, or burlesque bars, women are degraded and frowned upon for showing off their bodies. Honestly, the sexualization and objectification of women’s bodies is a problem and needs to stop.
“Sex and the Social Dance” was a streaming video which examined the sexuality of social dances around the world. Regardless of geographical location or decade of popularity, dance conveyed social values. In particular, the sexuality was expressed through physical contact or lack thereof, in the gender roles of the dance, and in the purpose of the dance.
Gentlemen Quarterly, like many other magazines, implements the gender binary onto its readers through its advertisements and articles. They market solely toward male and female people, dividing into “...suits and dresses” and “action movies and chick flicks” (Wade, p. 5) and dictating specifically what is feminine and what is masculine. Men’s fashion trends are centralized on suits and hair grooming, all of which fall under the masculine category. On the other hand, the female section doesn’t seem to dictate fashion but rather advice and celebrity news, which contrasts it’s sole purpose as a clothing magazine. In this sense, GQ obeys the “gender rules” of what it means to “appear and behave as a man or a woman” (Wade, p. 61) but there are few
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The subversion culture of hip-hop However, hip-hop culture also have the correlation with developing crime culture. In the study of Clubbing masculinities and crime: A qualitative study of Philadelphia nightclub scenes, it examines the relationship between masculinities and crime within the hip-hop music nightclub scenes in Philadelphia. The study observes 33 club events and interviews with 24 male clubbers. The result shows three common situation from these men, which are men with consistently high masculinities reported the most frequent involvement in nightclub crime, men with consistently low masculinities scores reported the least involvement, and men with variable masculinity scores put on more hyper-masculine identity while clubbing which lead them to engage in nightclub crime. The people with high possibility of engaging with nightclub crime may be associated with other sexuality problem because they contain the behavior of competitiveness, aggressiveness, dominance, and independence. In the other words, these males has established the link of trait with crime. Also, the hip-hop music nightclub scenes provide males alcohol as an activator which led them to be less rational than they normally act in life. As the result comments on the type of male with high masculinities, they should the higher crime rate with raping. Therefore, the culture of hip-hop has been