Evaluations of Female and Male Strippers and Strip Club Attendees
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Evaluations of Female and Male Strippers and Strip Club Attendees Yuliana Zaikman1 · Jassmine Sanchez2 Accepted: 16 September 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Female exotic dancers are often viewed negatively, while research on male exotic dancers is scarce. Given that exotic dance is often perceived as atypical, exotic dance club attendees may also face negative social reactions. Two experiments investigated evaluations of male and female strippers and exotic dance club patrons. In Experiment 1286 MTurk participants evaluated a fictitious target individual in order to examine whether target gender and target occupation (stripper or bartender) influenced evaluations of targets. Results illustrate that strippers were more negatively evaluated compared to bartenders; this pattern was particularly evident by those who possess negative exotic attitudes. No differences emerged between evaluations of male and female strippers. In Experiment 2, 302 MTurk participants evaluated a fictitious target individual in order to examine whether target gender and target attendance (whether the target attended an exotic dance club or a dance club) influenced evaluations of the target. Results illustrate that exotic dance club attendees were evaluated more negatively than dance club attendees; this pattern was particularly evident by those who possess negative exotic attitudes. Additionally, female exotic dance club attendees were evaluated more positively than male exotic dance club attendees. Overall, results suggest that a general negativity associated with exotic dance still exists, but there are some differences in evaluations of exotic dancers and exotic dance club patrons. Keywords Strippers · Exotic dancers · Female clients · Male clients · Sexual double standard
* Yuliana Zaikman [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology and Sociology, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412, USA
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Psychology Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
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Introduction Exotic dance refers to the performance of one’s nude or semi-nude body in an erotic and suggestive manner, without actual engagement in sex (Forsyth and Deshotels 1998; Reid et al. 1994). Exotic dancers have been and still are predominantly female (9:1 female to male ratio; Greenspan 2018). Despite empirical evidence regarding perceptions of female strippers1 illustrating some positive evaluations (e.g., Downs et al. 2006; Wosick-Correa and Joseph 2008; Pedersen et al. 2015), the majority of research describes negative stereotypes associated with the lives and personalities of female strippers (e.g., Schweitzer 2000; Forsyth and Deshotels 1998). Moreover, despite the publicity and positive feedback of recent cinematic portrayal of male strippers (i.e., Magic Mike), scientific research on evaluations of male strippers is scarce. The purpose of the current research is to examine whether there are differences
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