This is a very interesting review by Germaine Greer of Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley. The book (published by Yale University Press) is an exploration of nude dancing.

Here's Greer on the "power" excercised by a tripper over her patrons:

What is demonstrated in Bentley's case, as in the cases of the wives and girlfriends, is certainly power, but it is the power of delusion. No woman who dances naked in public is in control of the situation; she is merely an attraction on the bill, an alternative to the strongman and the conjurer. Male desire, her standing ovation, as it were, is all in her imagination. Men are titillated as much by the presence of other men as by the spectacle itself, but they will lose the respect of their male companions if they give evidence of actual arousal.