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Anderson Cooper talks about the time he went to a Tampa strip club with a bunch of straight friends
I can really relate to a story Anderson Cooper told on his daytime talk show today about going to a strip club with straight guy friends and being bored out of his mind.
‘I had to go to one once for a bachelor party when I was in college and I literally was like talking to the ladies about their shoes,’ Cooper told guest co-host Lisa Rinna.
‘I was so not into it,’ he added. ‘I was like, “I’m not even going to fake this one.”‘
After Rinna admitted that talk of the strip club was making her ‘almost hot,’ Cooper said wryly: ‘Whatever floats your boat.’
It reminded me of the late 80s when I went to a strip club with two of my college pals. We went to a place in San Diego called Pacers. I was not out to them yet and was trying to pretend to seem interested in what was going on on that stage.
When one of the women, who was not that attractive even to the straights, thrusted her bottom near my face, I turned to my friend Dave and said, ‘I just went limp!’
Little did he know then that I was limp all along.
But he eventually found out and told the story at my 40th birthday.
Anyway, enough about me! Here is the Anderson Live! clip:
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Lexxvs says:
Keeping on with tradition: what did that beautiful woman to her upper lip? I mean, I know what may have done, but it wasn’t and improvement.
I like this candid Anderson too.
Daniel says:
I think every closeted twenty something can relate. My strip club story involves a bachelor party in Vegas at a place called Lil’ Darlins. The ladies figured me out within moments of walking in. The ladies had fun giving me extra attention, much to the chagrin of my straight friends who even accused me of paying the ladies more! I had to laugh when this one woman wrapped her legs around my neck and proceeded to pull my face towards her hoo-ha. Repeatedly. I rather would have been anywhere but there at that moment, but had to laugh knowing what the ladies were up to. Good times… 🙂
Annemarie says:
On the flip side, it reminds me of a bachelorette party I went to at a male strip club where all of the patrons and dancers were gay men. You could tell they didn’t want women there, in the odd hunting-lodge-animal-heads-on-the-wall decor… I totally felt like I was intruding in this obviously gay men’s strip club where men were standing on the bar in nothing more than tube socks pulling on their puds. The head of our evening’s festivities obviously didn’t do her homework! I think it’s funny now, and even though I’m straight, I had absolutely no interest in being there either. So I can relate. Well, sorta 😉
I love Anderson and I love Greg Hernandez. We just passed the same-sex marriage state law here in Maryland. Being such a Republican state, I was proud of MD for doing the right thing. So you go on with your bad selves and hopefully the next generation of LBGT youth won’t have to suffer through what Harvey Levin, Anderson and so many others had to go through.