Thrusting their crotches before a construction site backdrop, four male-model types hoist hammers up to their gym-perfected torsos, smiling as if there is no other place they’d rather be than the stage of the Rio Hotel & Casino in the Las Vegas Chippendales show. Women of all ages gawk and scream as the men rip off their white tank tops and toss them into the audience, strip off their pants, swivel, and display their tanned butt cheeks. It’s one of the few places in the world where women are ogling and men are being ogled.
The Chippendales—what the performers themselves are called—come from a range of ethnic and educational backgrounds, are straight and gay, married and single, but they have a few things in common. According to dancers, as recently as 2019, organizational rules dictate that they’re at least six feet tall, have a six-pack, and have no more than a quarter inch of body hair.
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