Bare: The Naked Truth about Stripping

It began when she was a teenager with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women's bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with professional sex workers, leading to a plunge into their world. Bare follows the author and her fellow dancers through Seattle strip clubs and bachelor parties - exploring in riveting detail Eaves's own motivations and behavior, as well as those of her co-workers - as they make their way through the sometimes exhilarating, often disturbing world of stripping.
Bare demands that we take a closer look at the way sexuality is viewed in our culture: what, if anything, constitutes "normal" desire; the ethics of swapping money - or anything else - for sex; and how women and men navigate the perilous contradictions and double standards that make up today's socio-sexual conversation.