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When the pandemic hit, a group of dancers from the East Hollywood strip club Jumbo’s Clown Room realized no one was coming to save them.

So, they got creative💃💃💃:
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They created a twice-weekly, three-hour virtual strip show called Cyber Clown Girls.

Like an in-person strip club, viewers are encouraged throughout the night to tip through Venmo or Cash App.

But these are not traditional strip performances: latimes.com/entertainment-…

Mixed in with the stripping is a level of zaniness, edge and political commentary. Some dancers use portable poles, and others make creative use of bathtubs, windowsills, or cars.

Yes, we have photos:
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“Strippers in general are often insanely creative people,” said a performer named Reagan. With online shows, “we are our own creative directors, we’re our own art directors, we’re our own cinematographers, lighting designers, set designers.”
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Performers struggling to make it in the pandemic are especially frustrated by celebrities like Bella Thorne turn to sex worker culture and the stripper aesthetic to enhance their image latimes.com/entertainment-…

The pandemic is devastating the global economy, and it has not spared sex workers latimes.com/california/sto…

Is it normal for the pandemic to kill your sex drive?

Is it okay to be watching so much porn?

All your pandemic sex questions answered latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…