Dancing at the Blue Iguana

The 1996 film *Striptease*, for all its purported boldness, remains a prime example of Hollywood’s insidious habit of glamourising and sanitising the inherently sordid realities of the American entertainment industry’s underbelly. Its glossy portrayal of the strip club milieu, replete with improbable glamour and narrative neatness, ultimately served only to sweeten a profession steeped in exploitation and vulnerabil…