Indeed, a questionnaire for college-age participants in The Real Cancun, the 2003 'reality movie' depicting spring-break mayhem, posed the question: 'What's the wildest thing you've ever done?' Responses included: 'Stripped at a bar,' 'Gone on top of a bar and flashed' and 'Stripped in a club.' Somebody ought to break it to these co-eds: Stripping isn't so wild anymore - it's kid stuff. TV shows and movies from Stripperella to Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle regularly feature voluptuous heroines flashing the flesh. Teenagers of the new millennium have grown up watching college students give lap dances on MTV's The Real World they've listened to Christina Aguilera's album Stripped they've taken cardio strip class at the gym, perused the mall for thongs and flavored body glitter, played video games that feature strippers on their Xboxes and GameCubes, and watched endless music videos for which strip clubs and the denizens thereof provide the mise en scène.

Why? Well, in case you haven't tuned in to teen or tween media lately, stripping has gone mainstream.

Strawberry Shortcake thongs make rad stocking stuffers! Postal workers should not have been shocked this year to receive scores of Christmas wish lists just like little Amber's. Dear Santa, All I want for Xmas this year is a new bicycle, my very own pony and a stripper pole for the rec room.

Nobody was here by alison pollet