In a large, black-walled room, well-built, shirtless men wearing dark pants and suspenders meander around an empty bar with drink trays in their hands. To the left, down a small set of stairs, are several small stages decked out with tiny-briefed hunks dancing around a large main stage. About 25 women are scattered throughout the room, and a bachelorette party of ten is seated in front of the stage.
Colby Katz
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The theme song to Pink Panther is playing as a six-foot-tall Latin man creeps around the stage in a suit. Then, Michael Bolton's "When a Man Loves a Woman" blasts through the club. The dancer puts his hand to his heart and serenades the bachelorette party.
Just as the ladies' lunch is about to come up, some bass kicks in and the suit jacket flies off. Shirtless and agile, the hunk starts grinding his nethers and rips off his clasped pants. He grabs a rope overhead and begins swinging himself around the stage. After a few seconds, two women from the front row stand with folded bills in hand, and he gets down on his knees in front of them. They rub his muscular torso and legs as they slip money into his black G-string. They aren't screaming like girlies, just dancing and touching the man as if with -- could it be? -- real desire.
When his set is over, a young, blond birthday girl steps onto the stage and sits in a chair. A tall, extremely handsome white man in a gray suit emerges from behind the black curtain at the back of the stage and leans on the wall with two pink roses in his mouth. He stares at her as he gyrates his hips. Then he walks over to her, shedding his suit, and kneels in front of her chair. He dips his head down toward her groin and slowly moves it up her body till he is looking her in the eyes. Then he puts his nose back down thurr and grips the back of her chair as he pulls her legs over his shoulders. He stands up with her legs wrapped around his neck and starts bouncing her up and down.
This is a taste of what I found last Saturday night when I grabbed three friends and trekked over to La Bare (2750 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). I hoped to discover whether female sexuality has the power to arouse or whether it is just more of the lame-o, cornhole-doodyfest version of male sexuality that Lifetime made-for-TV-movies feed women. My conclusion: Compared to the dough throwers at female revues, the clientele at Le Bare gets a lot of bang for its buck.
After the Pink Panther is done, a husky, bald black man takes the stage. He's Paul Bunyan-ed out in a pair of jeans and a flannel vest. He has a prop chainsaw in hand and is thrusting it from his groin like the assumedly frightening member concealed behind his fly. I turn my head away for a second, and his clothes melt away -- à la Erica Jong's "zipless fuck" -- and shazam!, there the hulk stands in a delicate, froufrou, pink G-string.
He drops into pushup position and dips his thighs toward the stage as if he were taking a woman to the point of no return again and again and then -- phew! -- a little further. He backs it up a bit toward one side of the stage and wags his ass at a table of two heavy-set women.
Solely in the interest of conveying first-hand experience to my reader, I fold two bucks the long way and excuse myself from my grinning companion. Up-close, the man's face is as rock-hard and flawless as every other visible portion of his body. He thrusts his ridiculous pink panties close to my face and pulls me out of a fit of giggles by grabbing my hands and placing them on his hard, cantaloupe-sized pecs.
"Where do you want to put it?" he asks.
Well, to be frank, this is the first time a man has ever asked me that question, and I get spacey for a second, gazing into the valley between his chest muscles before I realize he is referring to the tip money in my hand.
"Oh, I like that part of the body on a man right here," I say, stepping back and demonstrating on myself, "where the hip juts out as it meets the belly."
He just kind of looks at me and pulls out the string of his tutu at said location.
A voice over a loudspeaker says, "Be careful -- she's a virgin."
After his tip is securely in place, the stripper says "Not anymore" and grabs my hands and pulls them around his body to rest on his beefy buns.
More giggles erupt, and he leans over and kisses me on the cheek, personalizing the seduction aura with a gooey-sweet "Thank you, honey."
Along comes La Bare manager Milton, a tall, fast-talking Puerto Rican man in a beige suit jacket with a gold chain supporting a sizable boxing-glove charm. His other job, he says, is running a boxing gym, where many of his strippers train.
