Luckily, striptease itself is a universal language...so whatever this show is actually about, we can definitely find a way to enjoy it.

· Pom Klementieff in "Pigalle, La Nuit" (deepatseavideos.blogspot.com)

Sure, American television is nice and all (especially the shows on premium cable), but, pound for pound, the French just do it better.

So why not get into the holiday spirit, and feel extra thankful for this scene of Armelle Deutsch stripping?

· Armelle Deutsch in "Pigalle, la nuit" (deepatseavideos.blogspot.com)

But if you didn't have time to watch the whole thirty minutes of goodness, well, we've got a highlights reel for you right here. Consider it the episode's abridged version (all the nakedness in just under three minutes!).

· "Californication" (sho.com)

Though it may not have lived up to "Dexter"'s exploration of the female orgasm, "Californication" still performed nicely with another trip to the strip club...and even a foray into group sex!

· "Californication" (sho.com)

It should also come as no surprise to hear that—at least from what we can tell—"Stan Helsing" doesn't look particularly interesting (Ms. Eglington's rack being a notable exception to that statement). Perhaps the team behind the film would have been better off if they'd honed on the story of the Brides of Dracula and the men who pay them for lap dances...sure, it probably wouldn't have been much better, plotwise, but at least we'd have gotten a lot more toplessness.

· "Stan Helsing" (stanhelsingthemovie.com)
· Clip via Upcoming Nude Scenes (upcomingnudescenes.net)

We've got women from all walks of life coming together to do what they love. Remember: anyone can dance, and there's no need to be pole-ite!

Previously: Top Ten Video Archive

Sexy Pole Dance Girls in NYC Subway (youtube.com)

Pole dance clips in Ibiza (youtube.com)

Leigh Ann Pole Dance "Ready or Not" (youtube.com)

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Em sexy pole dancing "Scandalous" (youtube.com)

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The following clip comes from episode "A ses pieds" ("At his feet"), and features Fanny Krich as a stripper of some sort. We're sure there's a very complex and intellectually stimulating plot to the episode—but for now, we're just going to sit back and enjoy the sexy.

· Video Clip of Fanny Krich from X Femmes (upcomingnudescenes.net)

"Black Light" is the tale of two girls in rural New England who fall in love (and, we hear, have a lot of hot sex). Bella plays one of the girls, and, well, we'll just let you watch the trailer and see for yourself.

· Photo by Autumn Forever

What makes this movie special is its choice of cast. Faye Reagan, Sochee Mala, Ryder Skye, Jada Fire, and the exquisite Sunny Leone all grind on and off a privately-installed stripper pole for ten minutes or so and then uncoil themselves—still perfectly made up and coiffed—to fuck some Porn Valley stand-in of you.

As we are currently in the slow season of porn production, you can take further delight in the fact that this movie was made one year ago this weekend, so it will be like you're drooling into a veritable time capsule.

So much has happened to these five women in the past twelve months! Some are fucking other men! Some are retired! But at least one is still Jada Fire, thank God.

And does Faye Reagan still follow the instructions on her panties? All we can do is hope.

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A series of stripper-on-stripper interviews (a refreshing change from the more common reporter-on-stripper interviews), Recession Strippers examines the relationship between strippers and stripping, offering perspective on what brings women into the business, what keeps them there, and, of course, how they're effected by changes in the economy. Up first: Laura Jackson, a girl whose been paid thousands of dollars to quit, but just can't give up the dancer's life.

· Recession Strippers 1: The Laura Jackson Experience (therumpus.net)
· Photo by Romy Suskin (romysuskin.com)

We'll just admit it: we're kinda jealous. (Aren't you?)

· Star boasted of dope shame as he medalled with my bongs (newsoftheworld.co.uk)
· Michael Phelps Loves Chewing Tobacco, Loves Threesomes With Strippers (Deadspin)

With all the airbrushed, straight-toothed, couples'-friendly porn out there, it is nice every once in a while - or even thrice in a while - to reach back and remember when porn was raunchy and fun and unsettling.

Well that world still exists, my friends, and it is the City of Tampa.

"Theater Sluts" features Hillsborough County's tannest and most feathered beauties venturing into old-school porno theatres where they meet just the sort of people who frequent porno theatres.

What follows is a spot-lit and vaguely orange grope in the dark with only one woman (19-year-old vixen Jasmine) looking at all porny (though Tampa, according to the Journal of Invented Statistics, has more strippers per square mile than anywhere else in the world) and the rest at the very least looking game.

And the men involved, including host and narrator Dirty D, are neither apologetic nor abashed the way many of their Porn Valley gangbang counterparts are. Their fishbelly white, flabby stomachs are a mark of pride and status, undulating hypnotically as they bounce atop the asses of Floridian strippers.

But lest you think "Theater Sluts" is unredeemably prurient, along comes Cedra who, in the final scene, evokes "The Wizard of Oz."

"Is there anyone here who didn't come on you?" Dirty D asks.

"Nope!" she says, looking around the dim room. "He came on me, he came on me, and he definitely came on me."

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Indeed, if David Levy's right about all of us eventually shacking up with our robot friends, then this video could, in fact, be a preview of the future of strip clubs. Personally, we prefer exotic dancers of the flesh and blood type, but these robot performers do have their charms.

·http://www.gileswalker.org/gileswalker.org/ROBOTS/Pages/pole_dancers.html#0">Pole Dancers (gileswalker.org, via fluffylychees.blogspot.com)

While your waiting for your copy—or for the footage to wind up on Fleshbot—check out this Access Hollywood video of Jessica practicing her stripper routine. It takes a lot of work to move that sexy, people. And Jessica, we're grateful for each and every hour of practice you put in on our behalf.

· Jessica Biel Nude Scene Confirmed!!! Plus: Stripper Practice Video (egotastic.com)

We can only assume that that was (more or less) the idea behind "Ask A Stripper Anything?", a web video series produced by Rick's Cabaret. The series, which has been going strong(ish) since mid-August, features Heather—the stripper in question—asking, and answering, questions about anything (though mostly about sex).

Well, if the adult industry wants to survive, it has to embrace new technology, right?

(And no, we don't know why the title ends in a question mark, either.)

· Ask A Stripper Videos (ricks.com)
· Rick's Cabaret (ricks.com)

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Though they don't really advertise their product as such, Seattle-based Tastie Pastie consistently makes pasties that are rather large. So if you've got big aerolas or feel a little shy about revealing the boobage in general, they're a good source. Their designs, like the pictured hula girl pasties, tend to the whismical and seem to largely be inspired by sales at craft stores. Not that that's a bad thing.

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Booby Bling: Pasties for A Heavy Metal Festival (boobybling.com)
Most pasties make boobies a little more glamorous and a little more mysterious: Are those nipples puffy? Are they big and dark? But somehow Booby Bling's pasties don't foster that same sense of wonderment. Instead, they conjure up images of drunk groupies vying for attention of long haired guitar players. This is not good. Also, they kind of look like they're really supposed to be patches that belong on stonewashed denim jackets and not boobs; we're not sure this is such a good thing either.

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No pastie roundup would be complete without some tried and true designs ... and Gothfox delivers these classic-style pasties pretty damn well. Most of their pasties are small and circular; many have tassles, and the fabrics are shiny and pretty. Plenty girly and perfect for pretty much any aspiring burlesque star!

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Sabina's Boobs Glitter for Titmore & Asspley (myspace.com/crystaltassels)
The cleverly (?) named Titmore & Asspley specializes in pasties with crystals; although they use crystals for other accessories in their line too, like high heels and lingerie, bejeweled boobies are their specialty. At the moment T&A only has a MySpace page insted of a full-fledged website, but it's still got some pastie-sporting models of note including Sabina (pictured) and longtime Fleshbot fave Maisumi Max. There's also some pretty aggressive language about their designs being copyrighted, which made us wonder how many ways you can design a pastie ... and how many people out there make a habit of stealing pastie designs. But what do we know? We're not the experts.

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Confessions of a Pastie Maker is a look inside the process of pasty making from someone who knows. And How to Make Your Own Pasties is, as the name suggests, a great tutorial (with pictures!) of how to make your own. So what are you waiting for?

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· "The World's Worst Stripper" (break.com)
· Sandy Kane on MySpace (myspace.com)
· Sandy Kane on the street (Flickr)

It's a trend story! Except "some women" is really just one woman and she doesn't really blame it on gas prices, so much as the fact that she has a young child, is in school herself, and stuff costs money. Still, isn't it awful that our economy is so bad, that women are forced to take their clothes off to pay the bills? This poor woman is almost like ... every other woman who has ever been a stripper. Because we all have bills to pay and stripping is just a job like any other—except unlike some jobs you can actually make a living doing it. That's not news.

Exotic dancing can be a way to survive. So can being a television reporter. Unless you don't have a twin sister to help you film ridiculous split screen shots like this one. Then it gets a little tricky.

· Women turn to pole dancing due to rising gas & food prices, other expenses (wafb.com, via newsbusters.org)

· Stripper to appear at Edinburgh Fringe (timesonline.co.uk, via nerve.com)
· Stripper, 80, still taking her clothes off (cnn.com — thanks B)

· Cherise Isis' "American Stripper" (on view 'til 6/14 @ Peer Gallery, NYC; see online photo exhibition here)

· YouStrip (youstrip.com)