Alan Bennett

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.

English Dramatist

Bernard Katz

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

German Scientist

Joshua Foer

Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

American Journalist

Cynthia Payne

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

British Celebrity

Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Canadian Sociologist

Striptease is a form of adult entertainment, often seen in nightclubs or theatres.

Sensual Entertainment

Awareness of different cultural attitudes to striptease is important; it may be seen as taboo in some places.

Cultural Sensitivity

Striptease can be used to describe a humorous or playful act of undressing, not always in a professional context.

Colloquial Usage

 And one of the things that we were asked to do was give it a street identity, expand the lobbies and make it visually accessible. And this building, which is just naturally hermetic, we stripped. We basically did a striptease, architectural striptease,

Liz Diller: Architecture...

 firewalls to protect itself they hand me a contract that spells out the official policy I can be fired if I'm caught having sex so I I'm gonna defend a contractor I'm contracted to go out and perform nude striptease for