Editing Striptease (section)

===American tradition===
[[File:Trapeze Disrobing Act (1901).webm|thumb|upright=1.25|thumbtime=1|left|[[Charmion]] in her disrobing act, 1901]]
In the United States, striptease started in [[traveling carnival]]s and [[American burlesque|burlesque]] theatres, and featured famous strippers such as [[Gypsy Rose Lee]] and [[Sally Rand]]. The 1893 "[[World's Columbian Exposition]]" in Chicago, Illinois would result in Sal Bloom making large sums of money off of "hoochie-coochie" exotic dance shows which bore resemblance to striptease acts.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKzbHAAACAAJ | title=Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show | isbn=978-0-19-530076-5 | last1=Shteir | first1=Rachel | date=2004 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/the-origins-of-the-striptease-and-burlesque/ | title=The origins of the striptease and burlesque | date=10 May 2012 }}</ref> The [[vaudeville]] [[trapeze artist]] [[Charmion]] performed a "disrobing" act onstage as early as 1896, which was captured in the 1901 [[Thomas Edison|Edison]] film ''Trapeze Disrobing Act''.  Another milestone for modern American striptease is the possibly legendary show at [[Minsky's Burlesque]] in April 1925 that inspired the novel and film ''[[The Night They Raided Minsky's]]''. Another performer, [[Hinda Wassau]], claimed to have inadvertently invented the striptease in 1928 when her costume was shaken loose during a [[shimmy]] dance. Burlesque theatres in New York were prohibited from staging striptease performances in a legal ruling of 1937, leading to the decline of these "[[grindhouse]]s" (named after the bump 'n grind entertainment on offer).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newvictory.org/newvicMain.m |title=The New Victory Cinema |publisher=Newvictory.org |date=1995-12-11 |access-date=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722001058/http://www.newvictory.org/newvicMain.m |archive-date=2012-07-22 }}</ref> However many striptease stars were able to work in other cities and, eventually, nightclubs.

The 1960s saw a revival of striptease in the form of topless [[go-go dancing]]. This eventually merged with the older tradition of burlesque dancing. [[Carol Doda]] of the [[Condor Club|Condor Night Club]] in the [[North Beach, San Francisco, California|North Beach]] section of San Francisco is given the credit of being the first [[Toplessness|topless]] go-go dancer.<ref name=club>"Nudity, Noise Pay Off in Bay Area Night Clubs", ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', February 14, 1965, p. G5.</ref> The club opened in 1964 and Doda's première topless dance occurred on the evening of June 19 of that year.<ref name="hole">''California Solons May Bring End To Go-Go-Girl Shows In State'', ''[[Panama City News]]'', September 15, 1969, p. 12A.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url= http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22039191_ITM|title=Naked Profits.|access-date=2007-07-30|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]| date=July 12, 2004}}</ref> The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of her with red lights on her [[breasts]]. The club went "bottomless" on September 3, 1969 and began the trend of explicit "[[full nudity]]" in American striptease dancing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/1964?cat=technology |title=1964 |website=[[Answers.com]] |access-date=2007-07-30 }}</ref> which was picked up by other establishments such as [[Apartment A Go Go]].<ref>''Arguments Heard On Nude Dancing'', [[Los Angeles Times]], April 16, 1969, p. C1.</ref> San Francisco is also the location of the notorious [[Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre]]. Originally an [[X-rated]] movie theater this striptease club pioneered [[lap dancing]] in 1980, and was a major force in popularizing it in [[strip clubs]] on a nationwide and eventually worldwide basis.<ref name="sfweekly">[http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2004-09-08/news/feature.html Lap Victory. How a DA's decision to drop prostitution charges against lap dancers will change the sexual culture of S.F. -- and, perhaps, the country.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406021322/http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2004-09-08/news/feature.html |date=2009-04-06 }} ''[[SF Weekly]]'', 8 September 2004</ref>