Editing Strip game (section)

==== History ====

While it has been suggested that strip poker originated in [[New Orleans]] brothels in the United States around the same time as original poker in the 19th century,<ref>{{cite web
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 | title        = Who Will Lose Their Undies Tonight? Strip Poker - History and Rules
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}}</ref> the term is only attested since the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web
 | url          = http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=strip
 | title        = Online Etymological Dictionary
 | access-date  = 2011-10-12
 | archive-date = 2022-11-01
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20221101040949/etymonline.com/word/strip
 | url-status   = live
}}</ref> Strip poker most likely began as a prank or [[hazing]] among college-age boys, and as late as the 1930s, the current mixed-gender version was called "mixed strip poker" in England to differentiate it from the all-male variety.<ref>See Chapter 1 of [[A Coffin for Dimitrios]] by [[Eric Ambler]]</ref>