Sex on Stage

Alison J. Carr is an artist, mentor, and scholar. She works visually and creates performances, examining bodies on display and the contexts they perform in. She is the author of Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl: How Do I Look? (2018), and of the novella The Night (2023).Lynn Sally is a scholar and performing artist. She is the author of Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation (2022). She produces and performs as Dr. Lucky.

• AcknowledgementsSetting the Stage: An IntroductionACT I: ESSAYSChapter 1: “Pole Dancing Academic: Decompartmentalising the Personal, Sexual and Professional while Blending Pole Dance and Research Careers” by Carolina AreChapter 2: “Consuming Asiatic Femininity through Foodlesque—Exploring East-Asian Exoticism through Calamity Chang’s Model Mi-Nori-ty Roll” by Julia MatiasChapter 3: “Selling Out: Art, Stripping, and Sexual Desire on the Public Stage” by Marissa VigneaultChapter 4: “‘The Audience is My Source of Hate’: Xandra Ibarra and Fucking Whiteness” by Erin Rachel KaplanChapter 5: “The Inheritance: Queer Sex in the Theatre of HIV/AIDS” by Ash Hudson-MyersChapter 6: “The Only Way Out is Through VIP: Discovering Genderqueer Identities through High Femme Strip Club Performances” by Ella-Gabriel MasonChapter 7: The Tar Baby Principle | Experiment 0.1 – A Trickster’s Silence” by Ra/Malika ImhotepIntermission I: “The ELSC Files” by Julie CookACT II: MONOLOGUESChapter 8: “Titillation: Radical Visibility or When I Found Out I had Cancer, I Watched Dirty Dancing Over and Over Again” by Emily Underwood-Lee Chapter 9: "The Becoming of Miss AuroraBoobRealis: From Fourteen-Year Old Club Kid to Co-Founder of Brown Girls Burlesque" by DawN CrandellChapter 10: “When in Doubt, Body Roll: Stories of Stripper Accidents” by Zahra StardustChapter 11: "Performing Intimate Experiences in a Black Queer Body" by Toussaint JeanlouisChapter 12: “Reading Nana, Théatre des Variétés” by Sharon KivlandChapter 13: “Stripping off Shame and Revealing Hot Joy” by Anna BrookeChapter 14: “Requiem for a Stripper’s Suitcase” by Stacey ClareIntermission II: “The Whoopee Club” by Lara Clifton and Tamara Tyrer with photos by Sarah AinslieACT III: DIALOGUESChapter 15: “What Pleasure Actually Means: An Interview with Intimacy Director Yarit Dor” by Alexander Millington with Yarit DorChapter 16: “Feeling Liberation: Queer Gestures Toward a World Without Rape in Jadelynn St Dre’s ‘Choreographies of Disclosure’” by Julia Havard and Jadelynn St DreChapter 17: “The Queen of Filth: Rose Wood Comes Clean with Joe E. Jeffreys” by Joe E. Jeffreys and Rose WoodNotes on Contributors

This is an engaging and wide-ranging collection, exploring several of the many facets of sex on stage. The work included here is sharp, insightful, and well-written, and the text as a whole is a pleasure to read.