bare naked truth stripping

this is perhaps a hair premature, as i still have 15 or so pages of red badge yet to read, but i'm thinking of reading this here book bare next. a friend and i have been talking over the past several days about the concept of strip clubs, about voyeurism and men and women, looking, being looked at, and these are issues i've long had something of an obsession with. i have been reliving, in a sense, the chapter in my life in which i visited such places regularly - that chapter opened wide in april 1995. i've been rereading my journal from that period, and it was a heady time. i'm not altogether proud of the feelings thrust forth but neither am i thoroughly ashamed. they're real and i can't help that. for a number of years, while living in the dc area and then while living in north carolina, and even in seattle, i went to such places with some regularity. strippers have long populated my stories; and i think an element of that life is what version 3 of story 2 needs. (okay, so the writing's not going so well yet, but i'm still on it!) anyway. i haven't been to a strip club in maybe 6 or 7 years, and sometimes i still get the hankering to visit one again, though i'm not desperate or anything. maybe we'll at least go to the lusty lady in seattle sometime relatively soon. i know there are places in tacoma and the immediate environs, but i've been to none of them. (apparently right here in tacoma there are drive-through cafes where the baristas wear naught but lingerie, and that's certainly curious, and of course there's hooters, but hooters is, to me, far more disturbing than a strip club, as it purports to be a family restaurant; parents take their kids there and i do think there's something wrong with that.) bare has been on my shelf for a good while now, and i have been thinking it's time for me to read some nonfiction. i'd been thinking about picking up the recent carl sagan, but at present, given my recent train of thought, i'm leaning toward the stripper. so! when i finish the war novel today, i'll then read the first pages of bare and see where i am. any questions?