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oppressor, contribute to her

A voice from the slushpit

of primeval libidinousness

ALL I am doing is revealing
my inherent prudishness by
admitting this, but { don’ t go
into strip bars. at least not in
the Toronto area, any more.

Not that | ever went all thit
often, you understand, But being out
on the road, travelling usually with
young bachelor males, I'd get
dragged along from time to time to
strange places with names like
Airstrip 59.

This is one of the ways us hel-
eros demonstraté our mantiness to
each other without actually going
out and killing anything.

[tis also (or was) the sort of
place where, even though you're
never supposed to admit it in print,
you can get a kind of primeval ner-
vous system buzz, It's 8 voyeurism,
sure.’But then, what isn’t. entertain-

* ment-wise?

Pve always thought, at feast it
employs young women, Don’ t they
even have a union?

~My Zen rationalization on it: if
an exhibitionist takes her clothes off
and nobody watches, does she

__. weep? Only if somebody's watching
_’ ean she get her thrill. So, i's my
humanitarian duty...

OK. sophomoric stuff aside...

Sure, as it,turns out. the only rea-
_ son any of them are there is because ’
‘they need the money, most — or at
least a good percentage — being
. Single mothers. © «+...

So, that’s pretty clear. By watch-

exploitation. —. . .
Of course, the question can be

~ asked: so if she doesn't make the

money this way, what will she do,
or have to do?’ ;
Apart from the rare student up’.
there working her way through =>
engineering school, it’s a recession-,
racked jungle out there. ‘
Some,.a cruel few. will no doubt
“demonstrate their bad manners by
suggesting that it is, after all, easier

' work than washing dishes.

The bottom line, the way | figure
it is, it’s a legitimate business, she’s

‘getting paid, and [’m only making a

fool of myself in public by staring ...

“at the not-unpleasant sight (to my

warped mind) of a nubile female
body becemiag unveiled. to the
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Onaseale of crimes against
humanily, where can this really
rank? Yet | daresay most guys who

slip into a strip joint for an hour,
away from the pressures of the job.
don’t routinely report it to their

- wives: girlfriends ar mothers.

{ve always had mixed feelings
about such places (naturally!), on
the one hand seeing them as
demeaning to women, and on the
other, well, sever mind. The male

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now. |
.’ve wandered into some awful

ones in my travels about the world. }

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We had crossed the ling, { real-
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And] felt embarrassed for my
fellow mates, cheering as though
this was some major human
achievement. .

But then 1 feel embarrassed for
my lellow human mates over many
things, so this might not nece! sarily

“mean much,

Apart from the risk of seeing
somebody taking her clothes off
who really ought to be in another
line of work. it seemed harmless
enough.

As for the table dancers, well, all
you had to do was shake your head
and they’d move on.

Some drinking buddies “bought’
me a table dancer one evening in
Montreal. it would have been
uncool to say no.

Hound itawkward in the
extrem to be staring froma few
inches away at the various body
parts of somebody E hadnt been
introduced to except as Cherl. while
other guys watched me to make sure

I was having a terrific time. o

| might have been, too, if there
hadn’t been all these people around.
Sorry, Fm too shy. Public sex has
never been my thing.

' But t should have known then
that the walls were tumbling down,
By the time the dancer is close
enough to rub against you, the line
between voyeurism and foreplay has
been crossed. *

Suddenly — very weird, if you
ask me — a judge in Toronto has
ordained that kissing, licking and
sucking a naked woman’s breasts,
while wanking off.and even per-
forming oral sex on dancers is OK.

“Innocuous,” the judge decided.

[ have no intention of ever going

back inside one of those places.
Voyeurism it may have been all .
along, but I like to think I’m selec-
tive about what f go anywhere to
See,

H you're going to have live sex
acts, or public prostitution, Pll sup-
port your right. But that’s a different
ball game, if you’ll excuse the -
expression, from erotic dancing. [
-want it to be what it’s advertised as |
being.

“Lap dancing.” Give me a break.
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