One of the reasons many people still don't know what to say when their sister or co-worker or mom says she's taking an exotic dance or pole fitness class is because many of us only associate what they're saying with one thing: strip clubs – low or highbrow, they are the places where women dance for men who pay them. But exotic dance has a long history, much of it grounded in religious fertility rites (Egypt) or entertainment (Vaudeville and Burlesque).
According to striptease historians Rache
