We have grown accustomed to corporate influence in retail outlets; restaurants; and even higher education-but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing world of striptease; tracing its path from the unruly underground to brightly lit; branded gentlemens clubs. Drawing on her own experience as an exotic dancer; Jessica Berson examines the ways that striptease embodies conflicting notions of race; class; and female sexuality; and how the exotic dance industry deploys these differences to codify and commodify our erotic imagination. Chain clubs; fitness programs; and music videos are moving exotic dance into the mainstream; stripping its historical potential to embody and express subversive desires-erotic and otherwise-and generate resistant modes of female erotic subjectivity. Through case studies including Bostons Combat Zone in the 1970s-80s; the development of lap dancing in London in the 1990s; and the triumph of corporate striptease in post-Giuliani New York City in the last decade;The Naked Result reveals an industry that increasingly eradicates individuality and agency in order to increase profits. Ultimately; The Naked Result argues that corporatization has cheerfully smothered the diversity of desire and expression for both dancers and customers; repackaging the most mysterious human emotions into easily branded experiences no more personal or powerful than those to be found in any themed restaurant or coffee mega-chain.
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