Volgens Merriam Webster werd de term “striptease” voor het eerst gebruikt in 1931. Helaas vermeldt ze er niet bij bij welke gelegenheid dit dan wel was. Aangezien ik aanneem dat ze zich baseert op Britse bronnen, gok ik erop dat het iets te maken had met Laura Henderson, who began presenting nude shows at the Windmill Theatre, London (foto Wikipedia), on June 15, 1931. The British law prohibited naked girls from moving. To get around the prohibition the models appeared in stationary tableaux vivants. The Windmill girls also toured other London and provincial theatres, sometimes using ingenious devices such as rotating ropes to move their bodies round, though strictly speaking, staying within the letter of the law by not moving of their own volition. Another example of the way the shows stayed within the law was the fan dance, in which a naked dancer’s body was concealed by her fans and those of her attendants, until the end of her act in when she posed nude for a brief interval whilst standing still. Over the Windmill girls werd een mooie film gedraaid door Stephen Fears in 2005. De titel? “Mrs.Henderson presents”…