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FEATURES. iM Sttfop sSUGMTJ Moilg J - jS EiOH S3Bliol ;ffl(8S rft i V f Dancing on tables and kisses for dollars part of strip show an gets glimpse of ladies' night out' By FRANK CLARKSON Photo Editor Monday night I found myself in a position most men would envy I was nearly the only man in a room filled with over 200 women. Yet I was so nervous I found myself looking into my drink to avoid the eyes of the unescorted females. They had crowded into Stephen's . . . after all to watch other men take their clothes off, and unbuttoning the second button of my shirt is about as much exposure as I general ly get I didn't know whether my presence at this "ladies only" event would provoke ridicule or wrath from these women waiting expectantly for the show to begin. Thinking that some food might settle my queasy stomach, I decided to order some thing but then I saw the menu. I couldn't ask for "something thick and creamy" (soup) "a little chopped cock" (chicken salad) or "a big stiff one" (a banana split) without blush ing and having my heterosexual ity seriously questioned. I decided on a roast beef sand wich, "some real hunky meat," and ordered another Scotch either to calm my nerves or to assert my masculinity. The bartender informed me that he was serving "lots of ladies' drinks, pina coladas and fruity stuff." ' As the show began, I busied myself taking pictures since that was the reason for my be ing there. I tried to hide in a corner and felt I was successful until one dancer came in my direction. With the spotlight in my eyes. I tried in vain to hide behind my camera. Luckily he was attracted by the woman next to me waving a dollar bill, and moved on after she deposited it in his g-string. The evening passed quickly and 1 was confident I has escaped virtually unnoticed, until a fellow reporter told me that a woman noticed my rugby injury and asked if I was on crutches because I got hurt dancing in the show. SPtefiaie 3cu October 1 982 1 i.. 1 r ) a02u.-rl Li w t s M u E&icztlsszl Center TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1131 For InfomutiMi About OtMr CMtm la Mora Than 105 Major US Cities A AerMi Outtidi NY State CAU TOU FREE: M-m-17U Call Day Eveninf s t Weekends 919-489-8720 489-2348 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd. Suite 112 Durham, N.C. 27707 n sy. wt yuuii hzjlt paiii J($) OF RAYBAN SUNGLASSES! f (vou must Dresent this ad SOFT CONTACT $feffi95 LENSES WZiJ (you must present this ad at time order is made) Get your eyes examiaed. Problem? Call us. In most cases we can arrange to have your eyes examined the same day. This offer expires August 16, 1SS2 PTICIAN Michael Costabile, Licensed Optician 235A Elliott Road 963-4776 Hours: 9-6 M-F ' We should be. more than happy to arrange an eye examination for you. .'llv-J"" By LYNNE THOMSON and MIMI PEEL Staff Writers You could hardly call it erotic the sex was so clean it squeaked but the 200 women who packed Stephen's ... after all Monday night seemed to enjoy their "ladies' night out" with the Peter Adonis male strip show. The dancers strutted on tables to cheers and loud disco music and the women gave them dollars for kisses, but the g-strings stayed firmly in place, and no one was forc ed to confront sexuality as more than the subject for entertainment and corny jokes. Though one woman who works in a phar macy at Duke said she was "definitely" get ting turned on, another woman who works at Duke said she thought women go to strip shows for completely different reasons than men. "Men go to be aroused; women just go to be amused," she said. Dean Welch, one of the dancers, said that some of the women he dances in front of aren't so detached. "I'm not there for them to grab me," he said. "I get propositioned lots of times, but I don't have to sell myself like that "I don't get excited when I'm out there," he said. "I'm not there to get turned on. . . thafs for them." Welch and the other dancers dressed in a kitchen hallway before the show, yielding to busboys emptying trash cans, but they main tained an air of professionalism. Welch explained that he purposely tan ned in a bathing suit, so the women could see tan lines. The women like it better, he said, if they get the idea that they are seeing something (his buttocks) that is not normally exposed, and that by implication, what is covered by the g-string, is never "shown in public. Yet some of the spectators weren't so ap preciative of that coyness. "We're bored, bored," one 30-year-old Chapel Hillian said. "We want them to take it all off. If I can't lick it I'm going to go home." But another spectator took a more philosophical view. . "It seems to me it's a bunch of hardened housewives out there. They've been with the same man for 10 years and they'll talk about this for the next 10. "This'll be the high point of 1982 . and thafs sad." ( ft J, s - C "X " V i rv ' " iif :m i,. & niniiiir n.iinTWInnimT mi i .1 ) Gelling rcsdy bsforo tha show . . . Welch dons g-string Photos by Frank OJarkson 1 rTi n r-T rsnnnnnnn J $2.00 Off Any Large Pizza B $ 1 .00 Off Any Medium Pizza ! I Bl 'V' ; $ S f y OHer xplres 81582 X SvAAAAVVwU LikJ Ui bami iui U kmJt ki U kaJ h-J II . - 11 3 I 1 t is . c I E 3 C 13 C I E 3 t 3 E 3 3 IS 3 t .3 C 3 I J L $3.00 Off Any Urge Pizza 3 S Off Any Medium Pizza 8 l4nnr in. i!Sllfc " ' Offer Expires 8152 V 3 iJ Ui imi tmS iJf kmi ImJ fmmi tJ t. Thursday, july 29, 1932 The Tar Heel 7
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