For some time, dancing naked for entertainment has been a preserve of female entertainers. But that, as it turns out, is not the case anymore. As Crazy Monday has discovered, male entertainers have jumped on the bandwagon and are now giving female strippers a run for their money.
Much as our investigations have revealed there exists no all-male strip clubs in Nairobi, the demand for services male strippers offer are on the rise.
Madness and debauchery at pre-wedding parties
And with the advent of male strippers in Nairobi, all-female parties have never been the same again. Take, for instance, what now happens at bachelorette parties. Besides the bonding, intimate pre-wedding advice to the bride-to-be, cooking tips and classes and drinking games, hen parties have now been turned into nights of debauchery, where male strippers, in some instances, feature not just as dancers but as naked butlers, chefs and caterers.
With all this male strippers' madness, very weird and hilarious things have been witnessed. Take, for example, drama and culture shock that a certain Pam* experienced at a long-lost friend's pre-wedding party this past May. Pam — who confesses that together with three friends she tagged along had never been to a hen party— says she had no clue what was in store for them.
"It was a night I will never forget. It all began like any other all-female party at a private up-market venue, until it was show time for male strippers who had been hired for the night," recalls Pam.
She says the half-naked male entertainers were welcomed in the room with wild cheers from the tipsy women, with each jostling for a piece of them. Immediately they popped on to the scene, they got down to business; dancing around, booty shaking and playfully dangling their male members, only covered with a sheath-like piece of cloth, in the faces of the cheering women.
Stripper who made nervous girl pee all over herself
"One of them reached where we were and began to seductively climb on my shy friend, throwing her in panic. After three or so minutes, the scared lady maneuvered herself and slithered out of his grip. The unrelenting stripper immediately jumped on the next girl who was so terrified and nervous that she peed on herself, scaring him away. It was crazy," laughs Pam.
Pam says the show went on as the strippers, some of them in thongs, went round, straddling the excited women and gave them lap dances. In moments of reckless abandon, some of the naughty women tried to playfully spank, grope and fully undress the strippers, eliciting wild cheers from other party-goers.
"Some of the party-goers lost their marbles, leading to unimaginable breach of what I suspect is 'stripping protocol'. The got too physical and began playing with the strippers' bodies, going all oral on them and demanding for more than lap dances," says Pam.
George*, another victim of this culture shock, only discovered months later the scandalous details, involving male strippers, of what happened at a pre-wedding party organised for his wife. It was his wife's sister, who had attended the party, who showed him the crazy pictures of what transpired there.
Reckless and daredevil stunts at hen parties
In the photos, George says, the strippers were at different stages of undressing. "Some could be seen getting all touchy with the strippers, simulating intimacy and engaging in all manner of crazy antics as the rest cheered them on," remembers George.
"I don't like the thought of what my wife might have done on that night. Considering the fact that bachelorette parties are held in honour of the bride-to-be, she gets subjected to most of the reckless and daredevil stunts," agonises George. He says that the bride's wedding line up, consisting of her sisters and her childhood girlfriends, teamed up with few female co-workers together with some of her female cousins to give her one last night of madness.
He was later told they hired a house in Kileleshwa for the night, enlisted the services of male strippers and engaged in all sorts of madness. Even though he also had a stag party, where, obviously, nastier things happened, he says he was shocked at the raunchiness at his wife's hen party especially that bit about male strippers. "Who knows, someone might have messed with my wife that night!" he moans.
Further investigations by Crazy Monday reveal that male stripping has increasingly become very common, not just in Nairobi but also at the coast, in Kisumu and Naivasha, among other places.
