So you thought that being inside the strip club was the one place you could get away from it all and avoid having to look at any advertising? Well, you were wrong.
It seems that a strip club in New York has found an innovative new way to bring in some funds: through advertising plastered on the dancers' bodies. The "opulent" and all nude gentleman's cabaret club Show Palace will be displaying the new ads, which they're calling SkinAds. You stay classy.
GQ report that the press release that accompanied the announcement detailed where you can hope to see the ads: "on strippers' backs, stomachs, legs and/or arms" and they "will be displayed in three-day intervals and priced at varying rates, depending on location, size and time of week". If you've got the cash, you can also get the "full body experience", which we're presuming is the equivalent of a giant billboard.
Mike Diaz, the manager of Show Palace, said that these ads were unique because "unlike billboards or newspaper advertisements, with the nature of placement - a naked women's body - this offering can almost guarantee that advertisements will be seen."
The first people to try this out will be Pornhub, who are obviously concerned that the people going to strip clubs might not know where to find pornography on the internet. Nothing says 'objectifying women' like making them advertising hoardings...
Via GQ. Main pic via Thomas Hawk/Flickr