Faced with changing attitudes, tightening regulations and a booming online pornography industry, strip clubs are closing across the US. Sex may still sell in magazines and movies, but are American strip clubs a dying institution, asks Jonathan Berr. These days, few executives would be willing to risk possibly losing their jobs and the resulting personal humiliation by seeking reimbursement from their employers for an outing at a strip club. But strip club operator Alan Markovitz said such calls were typical in the late s and s. Mr Markovitz, a Michigan entrepreneur who has strip club operations in four states, told the BBC he would routinely get notified that a powerful executive was arriving to make sure that they got good seats.

Showgirls is a erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Elizabeth Berkley , Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon , it centers on a "street-smart" drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl. In the United States, the film was rated NC for "nudity and erotic sexuality throughout, some graphic language, and sexual violence. This edited version runs 3 minutes shorter minutes and deletes some of the more graphic footage.

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