Strip tease is a type of dance. Strip tease usually implies a quiet and sensuous undressing, with the people pressing the stripper to remove more garments. The performer may prolong the unclothing with delaying strategy such as the using unexpected clothes or placing apparel or arms in front of barely undressed body parts. The main accent is on the action of disrobing with sexually suggestive motion, rather than the condition of being undressed. The costume the strip dancer wears before undressing may constitute part of the performance.
Strip tease regrettably was subject to legal and ethical bans. Female entertainers performing strip tease is often rejected by many feminists, who argue that the activity humiliates women. Restrictions on venue may be by licensing demands and restraints and a wide variety of state and localized policies. These rules differ significantly across the world, and also even between different parts of the country.
Strip teases are generally performed in stripping clubs, though they can be also set in pubs, lounges and other venues.
The originations of strip tease as an art are disputed and different dates and occasions have been taking into consideration ranging from ancient Babylonia to twentieth century USA.
The name "strip tease" was first observed in 1938, but "stripping", in the meaning of girls taking off clothing to sexually arose men, seems to go back at least 400 years. Its successful accompaniment by music is as old.
A conclusive depiction and visualization can be discovered in the 1720 German translation of the French "La Guerre D'Espagne" (Cologne, 1707), where a party of eminent patricians and artists have resorted to a small palace to entertain themselves with hunting, music and play. The work of art demonstrates that one of the finest entertainment to disport the men and to agitate the mind was when the females, to please their lovers, undressed and danced totally nude.
In mythology, there is a stripping scene in the ancient Sumerian tale of the step-by-step immersion of the goddess Inanna into the Hades. Thus, at each of the 7 gates, she took off a piece of clothes or jewelry. As long as she remained in underground, the earth remained barren. When she came back, it became abounded.
In old Greek culture, the lawgiver Solon based a few types of ladies of pleasure in the late sixth century B. C. Among these classes of prostitutes were the auletrides: women dance performers, acrobats and musicians, renowned for dancing nude in a beguiling manner in front of male audiences. Queen Theodora, spouse of Byzantine king Justinian is informed by few ancient authors to have started her career as a courtesan and actress playing in acts arisen from mythical ideas and in which she sooner or later dropped her clothes. She was celebrated for her glorious strip tease presentation of "Leda and the Swan". From these histories, it is clear that the activity was neither uncommon nor unexampled. It was, however, actively opposed by the Church succeeding in getting statutes censoring it in the next century. The degree to which the obtained statutes were subsequently enforced is, surely, opened to question. What is clear is that no such practice is reported in chronicles of the European Middle Ages.
In US history, the music hall performer Charmion presented an undressing act onstage in 1896, which was filmed in the 1901 Edison movie "Trapeze Disrobing Act". Another milestone event for present-day US strip tease is the famous show at Minsky's Burlesque in early 1925. But the burlesque houses were banned from organizing strip tease performances in a legal bill of 1937 leading to the later decay of such houses into venues for exploitation motion pictures. The 60s saw a revival of strip tease as topless go-go dancing. This gradually merged with the old type of burlesque dance. In 1980 the notorious O'Farrell Theatre of San Francisco pioneered lap dance and was a major player in pushing it in strip venues on a statewide and finally world wide basis.
