Hey, listener, this episode we're going back to 1990s San Francisco and a peep show called The Lusty Lady.

It's the story of some incredible dancers who stuck it to the man.

And along the way, there'll be some bad language.

It's nighttime in San Francisco, and Antonia Crane is dancing in a fish bowl.

Literally it was just visually like kind of a circle with glass, and on the corners of the fish

bowl were the one-way mirrors or the one-way glass where customers could see us but we couldn't

see them.

Antonia moves her body slowly to the music.

On either side of her are other dancers, twisting and grinding in stilettos.

Their silhouettes multiplying in the reflective glass.

I was hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder with like seven people next to me.

This is The Lusty Lady, a peep show and a San Francisco institution.

Clients come and pay a few quarters to sit behind the glass

and watch the new dancers inside the fishbowl.

But today, something is wrong.

One of the other dancers, Star, gets Antonia's attention.

She said, see that little red light blinking there?

Star points to one of the corner booths.

Your butthole is being filmed right now. Move over.

Oh my God.

Antonya moves downstage, away from the little red light.

And Star strides over to the corner booth and blocks the glass with her body.

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