'Oh, What A Night...'
Picture It... The Mediterranean, 2001
Ladies Night, the disco on the cruise ship Aida
FH viewers know I love taking a look back, especially when the view is of male strippers. I love spotlighting strippers, especially from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. For some reason, the strippers seemed more real back then, more raw. Although I know there are still great male strip clubs, some of the most famous have become so sanitized and tame. Instead of being hot and naked, they're more G-rated Christian kink for the puritanical crowd.
Stripping means to strip, as in strip off all coverings. The phrase dance around for ten minutes and keep your boxers tightly on is not in the official definition. A few week ago, when I saw that photographer Ian from macpics had posted a few of these adorable strippers on his Instagram, I had to ask him about them. The first two shots were taken in the dressing room of the on-board theatre of the Cruise ship Aida. At the time, Ian was in the cast, and every two weeks, they'd have a ladies night.
'The Ladies' Night itself was held in the ship's disco and really was for ladies only, well unless a guy was prepared to wear drag, so in order to see what the show was like and take shots, that's what I did. All the guys in the show were either barmen or members of the fitness team. As you can see, as good as their bodies were, the whole gym culture wasn't as advanced as it is today, so they aren't quite as shapely as they would be now, but who's complaining? '
So, you're out at sea, you're lonely and there's a group of hot guys getting naked in the ship disco. What's a guy to do? Well, if you're Ian, as well as many others, you pull a Mrs. Doubtfire and go in drag If you can't beat them, join them. Check out the last image below and see if you can spot which lovely queen is Ian. Hint, he's the trashiest one!
'On the Atlantic crossing at the beginning of the season we had a Miss Transe-aAlantik contest, meaning Miss Trans-Atlantic in English, and male crew members could get up in drag and compete.I wasn't able to take shots myself, but I have a group photo of the contestants.'
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