The Guide to Getting It On by Paul Joannides Read Free Book Online Page A

Islands in the Pacific Ocean where nuclear weapons were tested. It was so daring that the only model who would originally wear it was a nude dancer. It did not become popular in the US until the early 1960s when Brian Hyland’s song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini hit the charts, and American women suddenly started gearing up—or down. (The Itsy Bitsy Bikini song sold nearly a million copies in its first two months, which was an obscene amount of records in those days.) No one back then would ever dream that bikini panties would become commonplace and seem conservative when compared to today’s popular G-strings and thongs. String bikinis have a strings on the sides that connect the front and back panels.
Granny Panties: These occupy the women’s underwear niche that’s between the bikini and Depends.
Visible Panty Line: No matter what a girl wears underneath, VPL or Visible Panty Line is one of the more serious of the female fashion felonies. The biggest cause is panties that are too tight. Some types of thongs and boy-shorts can help, but not if what you are wearing is extremely tight or transparent.)
    Stripping
    Getting naked for an audience is called stripping. Until the advent of Chippendales, stripping was something that only girls did, and it usually fell into one of two categories. The first was the playful, private stripping that a woman does for her significant other. Even evangelical marriage manuals nod and wink when a good Christian wife puts on a show to get her man’s baby-making gears going. The other kind of stripping is for pay in front of strangers. Society frowns on women who do this. If you doubt that, try telling your mom you are dating someone who strips at the Kitty-Kat Lounge.
    Contrary to what you might think, it’s the girls in the audience at the male strip shows who go wild and get aggressive, while men at girlie strip shows are expected to be more subdued, even when they pay for lap dances.
    The US News and World Report says that Americans spend more money at strip clubs than at the opera, ballet, Broadway and Off-Broadway theater, and classical-music performances combined.
    If the thought of stripping for your partner turns you on, a great book to consult is The Stripper’s Guide to Looking Great Naked by Jennifer Axen and Leigh Phillips, Chronicle Books. The authors interviewed strippers from all over the country for suggestions that could be helpful to girls who want to make an impression in front of their partners.
    According to The Stripper’s Guide, a cornerstone of a stripper’s appeal is how each stripper needs to adopt her own unique look. It does a woman no good to try looking like someone else. It’s all about attitude and having your own style rather than sporting the perfect body. Forget buying expensive products, going on strange diets, and spending hours at the gym.
    The Stripper’s Guide offers a number of tips based on general body types a woman might have. For instance, when it comes to trimming your pubic hair, women with a voluptuous or well-endowed body might try a landing strip. The vertical line balances the curves and draws the eyes downward. A woman with an I-shaped body might go for a more natural-looking pubic bush, which helps make her hips look more round and curvy. On the other hand, just having pubic hair might look too retro. (Maybe pubic hair will be in style again someday!)
    Playing Strip Poker
    A time-honored and frequently fun way of getting naked together or in groups is by playing strip poker. While you don’t need a book to tell you how to play strip poker, The Stripper’s Guide offers hilarious advice for a woman who unexpectedly finds herself in a game of strip poker but hasn’t trimmed her pubic hair in a month and is wearing a granny bra. The authors suggest that she head for the bathroom for her three minutes of ABT “allowable bathroom time.” She should stuff the granny bra into her purse or into a drawer (better to be