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The Men Of ‘La Bare’ Reveal What’s Behind the ‘Magic Mike’ Fantasy

June 30, 2014 by Bobby Hankinson

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Although this Channing was originally attracted to dancing for the attention (and, he admits, a little for the partying), the reality of the job isn’t all fun and games.

“A lot of effort goes into this; a lot of the choreography is very difficult,” he said. “It’s also an investment — you need to spend money to make money — we have to buy our costumes, we have to pay our gym memberships, tanning memberships, dieting gets really expensive.”

LB_AxlThese are not just go-go boys rocking their hips in jockstaps. The men of La Bare are performing highly-choreographed routines. Some acts even incorporate more elaborate elements, like Axl’s aerial silks.

“It’s definitely something different,” Axl said. “I had to be devoted to spend the time learning it and making sure it was safe.”

But if folks’ assumptions about the work that goes into being a male stripper are off the mark, so are common beliefs about the kind of guys who go into the business. Axl, for example, studied physics, worked as an accountant and is an author.

“Some women come in there and treat you like you’re just a stripper,” Axl said. “The first time girls treated me in a demeaning matter, it surprised me because I’m an actual human being, first of all, and, second of all, I’m actually a decently intelligent human being.”

For the sizable gay audience that came out for Magic Mike, that film didn’t touch on the male visitors to the strip club. At La Bare, men need to be accompanied by a female, sit back at the bar and cannot tip the men directly.

“It’s not that any of the guys are homophobic or anything like that,” Channing said. “We just have a reputation we have to keep as a female fantasy.”

If you do find yourself at La Bare (escorted by a female, of course), Axl shared one small way to curry a dancer’s favor: Don’t fold your bills in half.

“I just have to unfold them,” he said. “It’s such a small thing, and I should just be grateful for the bills, but you get 20 of those and you just need to sit there unfolding them.”

 

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Film, interview, Interview, Joe Manganiello, Joe Manganiello

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