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Revelations: Essays on Striptease and Sexuality

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the book is much like the published review here. dragu actually has little to say throughout the book, what she says usually doesn't have too much impact. the part with the cops is a rather scary portrait of the law and the best part of the book, in my opionion. the rest of the book doesn't really answer all the questions one might have about strippers and their work. it takes a view of society as a whole and makes wild statements about society's sexuality/repression of sexuality and how this all relates to stripping. none of the theories are original and not much new is said about them. it also took an overly sympathetic view of the stripper, to the point of condescending the poor little women in the middle of the moral storm. i did read the book quickly as it's short, but i can't say i agreed with the tone or the way it's information was presented. i had no revelations reading this book, it was a lot like someone's college thesis.

Don't waste your time or money on this one. The book attempts to portray essays on the lives of strippers. The stories are not only dry and boring, but they're repetitive and all the same. I was totally disappointed in this one.