(The laws in Canada are different, as alcohol is permitted to coexist with full nudity.) Current laws regulating this type of live performance are remarkably similar around the United States, the major commonality being that complete nudity and the sale of alcohol are not permitted in the same place at the same time, with Washington, D.C., strangely enough, the major exception. Today, male strippers seem to be everywhere-in big cities and small towns, in the ultra-hip bars of South Beach along with grungy neighborhood establishments in big cities and faceless venues along suburban strips. The first clubs to feature all-male strip shows were the Gaiety and the Show Palace in New York, as well as others in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. It was also the era of the early gay liberation movement, and the male body was becoming an object for erotic entertainment. It was then that the Sexual Revolution was washing over society, and the male body was being used to sell products in advertising just as women's bodies had been for decades. GO-GO dancers have been fixtures in gay bars and clubs for many years, but male stripping only began to develop in the 1970's.
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