Strip Club

A Strip Club is an establishment where attractive people (usually female, although place with male strippers are not uncommon) disrobe on scene for the pleasure of the paying public, often while doing erotic dances and other sex-charged stunts. A staple of the Red Light District and the Wretched Hive.

The strip club is the usual workplace of the Single Mom Stripper and the Chippendales Dancers.

Do not confuse them with brothels (as the strippers in clubs rarely perform actual intercourse with their clients), nor with Hostess clubs (although some strip clubs force the strippers to double as hostesses), nor with go-go dance clubs (as go-go dancers never strip, even if they sometimes perform topless).

Strip clubs are barely portrayed accurately in US broadcast media, because of the usual nudity taboos; see Bikini Bar for how this place is portrayed in media rated PG-13 and below.

Compare Burlesque.

Comic Books

 * In Sin City, the scenes in strip clubs are depicted in all their naked, graphic glory. The film version was way more modest.
 * Brian Azzarello's Joker has one run by a former Joker associate, and Harley Quinn even briefly acts as a stripper at one point.

Film

 * In Deadpool, Vanessa works as a stripper and her workplace is shown, complete with her coworkers prancing topless.
 * In the movie My Best Friend's Girl, Tank (Dane Cook) takes a girl to the trashiest strip club he could find all to make the girl want to go back to her previous boyfriend. The strippers are naked from the top up and give Tank graphic lap dances.

Live-Action TV

 * The Bada Bing in The Sopranos changed from a strip club to a Bikini Bar when the show was Edited for Syndication.
 * On Parks and Recreation, the strippers in the Glitter Factory, the strip club/bar favored by Tom Haverford, do take off their tops - Pixellation makes the episodes with Glitter Factory scenes safe for broadcast. Also a kind of Fridge Brilliance, as the show is a Mockumentary.