Editing Striptease (section)

===British tradition===
[[Image:Windmill-Theatre.jpg|thumb|The [[Windmill Theatre]] in 2009]]

In Britain in the 1930s, when [[Laura Henderson]] began presenting nude shows at the [[Windmill Theatre]], London, censorship regulations prohibited naked girls from moving while appearing on-stage. To get around the prohibition, the models appeared in stationary ''tableaux vivants''.<ref>Vivien Goldsmith, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3648187/Windmill-always-nude-but-never-rude.html "Windmill: always nude but never rude"], ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 24 November 2005</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://islingtontribune.com/article/windmill-girls-meet-for-reunion-and-remember-dancing-days-in-old-soho|title=Windmill Girls meet for reunion and remember dancing days in old Soho|website=Islington Tribune}}</ref>  The Windmill girls also toured other London and provincial theatres, sometimes using ingenious devices such as rotating ropes to move their bodies round, though strictly speaking, staying within the letter of the law by not moving of their own volition. Another example of the way the shows stayed within the law was the [[fan dance]], in which a naked dancer's body was concealed by her fans and those of her attendants, until the end of her act in when she posed nude for a brief interval whilst standing still.

In 1942, [[Phyllis Dixey]] formed her own company of girls and rented the [[Whitehall Theatre]] in London to put on a review called The Whitehall Follies.

By the 1950s, touring striptease acts were used to attract audiences to the dying music halls. Arthur Fox started his touring shows in 1948 and Paul Raymond started his in 1951. Paul Raymond later leased the Doric Ballroom in [[Soho]] and opened his private members club, the Raymond Revuebar, in 1958. This was one of the first of the private striptease members clubs in Britain.

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In the 1960s, changes in the law brought about a boom of strip clubs in Soho with "fully nude" dancing and audience participation.<ref name="Murray Goldstein 2005">{{cite book|first=Murray|last=Goldstein|year=2005|title=Naked Jungle: Soho Stripped Bare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ToqAAAACAAJ|publisher=Silverback Press|isbn=9780954944407}}</ref> Pubs were also used as a venue, most particularly in the [[East End]] with a concentration of such venues in the district of [[Shoreditch]]. This pub striptease seems in the main to have evolved from topless go-go dancing.<ref name="It Started With Theresa">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jivMPoquDfAC&q=Bill+Martland |title=It Started With Theresa |date= March 2006|access-date=2012-08-01|isbn=9781411651784 |last1=Martland |first1=Bill |publisher=Lulu Enterprises Incorporated }}</ref> Though often a target of local authority harassment, some of these pubs survive to the present day. An interesting custom in these pubs is that the strippers walk round and collect money from the customers in a beer jug before each individual performance. This custom appears to have originated in the late 1970s when topless go-go dancers first started collecting money from the audience as the fee for going "fully nude".<ref name="It Started With Theresa"/> Private dances of a more raunchy nature are sometimes available in a separate area of the pub.<ref name=Clifton/>