China Can’t Get People To Stop Hiring “Funeral Strippers”

The Chinese government doesn’t want any more strippers performing graveside.

The goal of hiring strippers for a funeral is not some religious tradition. Believer it or not, it’s meant to attract more mourners to the event. It was between yelling “live girls” or “free comedy show” at people walking near the funeral, and strippers seem to have won.

The Chinese government wants the practice to end since the dances are “obscene” but they are struggling to fight the popularity and how cheap it is to find funeral strippers. One group of dancers does 20 shows a month for only $322.

What better way to pass into the next world than by entertaining strangers with sex? It’s like a bachelor party except the guest of honour’s life is literally instead of figuratively over.

The custom of hiring strippers for funerals became prevalent in Taiwan in the 1980s. It has more recently waltzed its way into mainland China.

Marc L. Moskowitz, an anthropologist at the University of South Carolina, detailed the funeral rite in his documentary film “Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan.”

“It’s not at all common for urbanites, but in rural settings, most people have seen these performances. Actual full stripping has gone underground because there were laws enacted against full nudity in the mid-80s, so that isn’t as popular as it once was,” Moskowitz said.

by RevContent