photographer - curator - designer - model - consultant - blogger - pervert - ninja - geek I like cats and porn and rock music and wearing too much eye makeup. Taking over the world since 2004. xox, Merrick Monroe
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Without the strip, it’s not burlesque, that’s for certain, and the greatest burlesque star that ever lived, Gypsy Rose Lee, called herself a stripper. You aren’t going to hear me tell you that there is a difference between burlesque and stripping. I think it’s awfully pretentious to go on and on about how burlesque isn’t really stripping. Burlesque-style striptease is where the modern pole-dancing-type strip originated from. Essentially, we’re all related.