Some consider stripping a taboo behavior. It has been around since the beginning of the 1900’s as we know it, and centuries before in one way or another, belly dancing as an example of another form of public dancing.
Men are very visual by nature and especially ones that do not have wives or girlfriends, going to a strip club is the only way they will be seeing a live woman in the nude. Live is always better than porn. They can certainly see lots of porn for free online, but a real, live nude moving woman, they may have to go see a dancer at a strip club to have a good look at one.
Most people at that time preached modesty, and it was considered scandalous for ones to be taking their clothes off in public for the sexual entertainment of usually drunk men. Most stripping was done in bars. Burlesque began in music halls, but the nude dancing we know and think of today began in bars, and really began to flourish during the first world war with he randy soldiers that wanted a good time that were far from home.
During the time of the sexual revolution, the stripping became more and more sexual, evolving from mainly topless, to full nude and the invention of the stripper pole took things to a whole new and acrobatic level. Many burlesque dancers were not thin or toned like dancers of today. They were womanly and voluptuous, and would never be able to heft themselves around like the dancers of today do.
Lap dancing is another off shoot that stripping has provided. Private dances and backroom shenanigans have always existed and many strippers do a lot more than strip if the price is right. It’s mainly a cash business and has a lot of shady individuals involved in it, including many times involvement with drugs and organized crime. Many porn stars are also involved as traveling strippers to help build fanbases.
