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268 | A P P E N D I X 8 Exotic Dance Patrons Dimensions of sexuality: psychology, culture, society, politics, and economics Lonely or unhappy men • Seek “understanding,” nonjudgmental and emotionally supportive listener • Seek attention from attractive woman desired as a spouse or lover or as spouse once was • Seek refuge from real female involvement and pressure to perform sex • Escape workplace political correctness about sexual harassment • Hang out • Escape work stress • Avoid rejection and fantasize being liked and desired • Seek excitement to perform marital sex role • Recapture in imagination what’s no longer in one’s marriage Hostile men (asked to leave club) • Insult women verbally • Grope women • Hurl objects Bachelor party group • Celebrate • Arouse and educate groom for new bride Pleasure-seeking men (youth, workers, businessmen, and professionals) • Seek entertainment • Engage in adult play • Seek aesthetic satisfaction (beauty of body and dance) • Seek variety • Seek excitement and adventure of “transgressive” and “foreign” • Seek opportunity to relax • Seek pressure-free female presence • Observe what wife or girlfriend does not provide • Fantasize and create own sexual script (safe sex) • Have sensory experience • Satisfy curiosity about the female body | 269 Exotic Dance Patrons • Support women’s sexual liberation and empowerment • Seek assignation • Have safe sex (fantasy) Macho men • Seek male identity, bonding, and dominance through fantasy of phallic man • Display social privilege by spending money ostentatiously • Perform by spending money and dancing with entertainer • Feel superior to women by being clothed • Feel dominant by paying but without having to perform and risk failure • Control of women by offering payment for dances Victimized men • Pay for being teased with an unrequited “date” Female companions of men • Seek to please companion • Seek education • Seek entertainment • Seek aesthetic pleasure • Seek excitement of “transgressive” Bachelorette party group and young women • Seek entertainment • Arouse and educate bride for new groom • Seek ideas to arouse lover or spouse • Satisfy curiosity about the female body Lesbians • Seek attention from attractive women • Hang out • Seek entertainment • Seek aesthetic pleasure • Seek assignation ...

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