Editing Striptease (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
In Britain in the 1930s, when the [[Windmill Theatre]], London, began to present nude shows, British law prohibited performers moving whilst in a state of nudity.<ref>Martin Banham, "The Cambridge guide to theatre", [[Cambridge University Press]], 1995, {{ISBN|0-521-43437-8}}, page 803</ref>  To get around that rule, models appeared naked in stationary [[tableaux vivants]]. To keep within the law, sometimes devices were used which rotated the models without them moving themselves. [[Fan dance]]s were another device used to keep performances within the law. These allowed a naked dancer's body to be concealed by her fans or those of her attendants, until the end of an act, when she posed naked for a brief interval whilst standing stock still, and the lights went out or the curtain dropped to allow her to leave the stage. Changes in the law in the 1960s brought about a boom of strip clubs in Soho, with "fully nude" dancing and audience participation.<ref name="Murray Goldstein 2005"/> Following the introduction of the [[Policing and Crime Act 2009]], a local authority licence is required for venues in England and Wales (and later Scotland) where live nude entertainment takes place more than 11 times a year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimereduction057a.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100413151441/http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimereduction057a.pdf|archive-date=13 April 2010|title=Sexual Entertainment Venues: Guidance for England and Wales|date=March 2010|publisher=Home Office|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Echo NewLaws 2010">{{cite web | url = http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8212913.Tough_new_rules_on_strip_club_openings/ | title = Tough new rules on strip club openings | access-date = 2010-06-11 | work = Echo | date = 2008-06-11 | last1 = Orbach | first1 = Max}}</ref>