are actually better than before the virus struck. of course, the big question with a coronavirus fuelled surfing scene is what happens when we go back to something along the lines of normal and people can travel again? will it kill the scene or will it survive? stephen mcdonell, bbc news, hainan island. what i would give to be on that beach right now. another place i want to be? i ll tell you. a listers are descending on new york s metropolitan museum of art for the return of one of the bigest events in fashion the met gala. the glamerous event reknowned for spectacular and flamboyant costumes was cancelled last year due to the pandemic. this year s theme is in america , giving guests a chance to showcase the best of the usa. the gala is smaller than usual, with manadatory vaccination and mask wearing.
for that matter. but in the suburbs of milwaukee i m about to meet another young woman that strip with the full support of her family. who do you want to be? this guy. what does he look like? i ll show you. 25-year-old sarah has a son and a fiancee. get them. oh, no. i m getting you. two years ago she left a job as a health care worker to try something different something taboo. now several nights a week she lives another night as a stripper named clara seducing men she doesn t know. i m really proud of who i am. my theory is if you re ashamed of it you shouldn t do it but i don t feel ashamed of anything i do. sarah s fiancee is fully aware of her unusual career. at what point did you find out that sarah was a dancer? i knew from the get go.
and instructor. hopefully i ll just be ridiculously happy and teaching. for now though stripping is still paying the bills. do you feel like a lot of dancers get trapped in the world? absolutely. every stripper i know has gone into stripping with the idea of i m going to do this for six months and quit and then they re there ten years later. it s the one industry in which women make more than men hourly and it s largely untaxed. we just stack dough. it s a hard job to leave. it s hard to do something else. my road trip with strippers has come to an end. i m heading home today and some of the women i spent time with are also going home. some are also headed to their next destination. i learned a lot about this world. even though this is the one industry where women overwhelmingly make more money than men it is not a glamerous
at the doll house, eman is taking a client to the vip room. as an independent contractor she sets her own rates. for a 30 minute lap dance she tries to get at least $400. around 10% goes to the club. the rest is hers. oh, you re very pretty. how did you know? how did you know? i can see. you re from lebanon, huh? who are we to judge? we re on polls selling our bodies. selling our fantasy. we re not doing the most respectable job either. we let random guys touch our boobs and slap our butts and stuff. do you get nervous to talk to guys? no. you have to let down a lot of walls and let your guard down. i m like we re going to have fun. and it s like wow you re a bunch of energy.
hot. do you feel any sense of arousal at all when you re doing this? of course i am a human body and not a robot. if there good at it it can be arousing. if i m tired and not into it it feels like a job. on the other side of this intimate encounter what are the men thinking. few patrons are willing to speak to me on camera and then i find norm. i ve been going here about ten years so a lot of the girls i know on a personal basis. they all come up and say hi and i asked them how they re doing and it s kind of like remember the old show cheers when norm would walk in and everybody would say hey norm. you re norm? i m norm. what do you get out of it? excitement. it s a fantasy obviously that