Barenaked Laddies

According to you, most women aren't interested in seeing pictures of naked men. To quote you, most would "run past a naked man to get to shoes." So, how do you explain all the women who go to clubs to see male strippers? Looks like somebody has to admit she's wrong!

--Gotcha!

Men and women go to strip clubs for different reasons. But, don't just take it from me. Let the Wiggle Willy Head Bopper do the talking. It's a headband with two glitter-flecked plastic penis antennae sprouting out of pink marabou feathers that women wear to strip club bachelorette parties. Just wondering...when's the last time you saw a man enter a strip club with a big plastic vagina strapped to his head? A man's goal in going to a strip club is getting turned on and maybe having strippers grind in his lap -- not having all his friends laughing in his face. If women were wired like men and could get physically aroused just by looking at the opposite sex, you'd see something you never do, the lone woman at a male strip joint on her lunch hour, nursing a whiskey and clutching a wad of ones. According to researcher Beth Montemurro, who watches women watch men strip, women show up in giggling herds because they mainly go to bond with their girlfriends. The bonding comes through shared embarrassment, and if the ladies start breathing heavy, it's probably because they're hyperventilating from laughing so hard. For women, Montemurro found that the stripper is less a sex object than a source of humor. Yes, it's just like in all those pornos for guys where they replace the moaning and screaming with the laugh track from "Two and a Half Men." While a guy will spend the week's grocery money trying to get a stripper to ride him like a pony, Montemurro observed women gingerly touching a male stripper's butt, then pulling their hands back as if burned. Some women find the strippers hot, but most describe them and the experience with words like "disgusting," "mortifying" and "humiliating," writes Montemurro in "Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties." One woman she interviewed had root canal-like enthusiasm for seeing a stripper, deeming it "something you should probably do once and then you don't have to do it again." Don't tell me -- that's exactly the sort of dread men feel at the prospect of watching naked girls gyrating around a greased pole. Beyond the research, just look to the marketplace. There are eleventy bajillion strip clubs for men and the occasional one for women. Women often feel compelled to go to these places on their girls' night out -- as a rite of passage, a hazing for a bride-to-be, or a way to get even with a fiance for having a bachelor party. But, the neon signs across North America most effective at separating women and their dollar bills are the ones that say "Nails, Nails, Nails!" not "Live Nude Males." Sure, some women love to finish their girls' night out with a lap dance, but probably loads more would rather finish with a coat of clear polish.