Men don’t really ‘get’ why women strip. They’re appreciative, in an almost-not-creepy sort of way, but they’re generally incurious as to why that woman is on stage with that pole for their benefit. At best, I’ve found, they think they’re just lucky to have found a woman who has found her True Calling to passive, often undemanding men. Press these guys and they might admit it could be for the money — but that’s pretty much as far as the analysis goes, and it’s universal. Men in general do not care why a woman strips; they pretty much take it for granted. Their understanding doesn’t so much stop there as it never actually starts. And I find this sad.

Well, there are male strippers, some, for lack of a more suitable word, oriented toward straight female audiences and some oriented toward gay male audiences (I suppose that there are also female strippers for lesbian audiences, but that’s beside the point here). Since, frankly, men (of any orientation) are more likely than women (ditto) to spend time and money watching strippers to begin with (just like with pornography) and way more businesses (bars, clubs, whatever) are oriented toward straight male customers than toward gay male customers, I’d presume there aren’t nearly as *many* male strippers as female strippers, but there are some.