The Lusty Lady

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Summary: insiders view of a pay-booth strip club worker
Review: "the lusty lady" offers an interesting insight to the ongoings of daily life and relationships that form between coworkers at the lusty lady club. the photos are of good quality and erotic. the only downside to the book is that erika langley, both author and dancer, didn't reveal enough. you get the feeling that she knows the people too well and holds back information about her true feelings pertaining to her work and others working with her. the book offers a great overview of life at the lusty lady and how her life has changed but goes only skin deep to reveal them to the reader.......

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Summary: The first book review I ever wrote.
Review: ...Not really a review, but my need to respond.

This has been a totally unexpected reading. The book that opened my eyes. More than a documentary. More than spectacular photography. Poetry, prose, images, more than anything... It's the continuity. The continuity of human life and human experience. The friendship turning into sexuality. The friendship, the courage. The beauty. The animal instincts. Nothing is discrete in life and in nature. Nothing is absolute. Life is strange, harsh and sweet. Life is a discovery. We fool ourselves - we are sexual creatures - but usually do not understand or are afraid to understand the repressed meaning of sexuality... and the continuity thereof... This book is the most incredible, beautiful and true travel of self-discovery.

I cried when I finished reading this book. Why??? I don't know... but I think simply because of the sheer and intense beauty, I've been exposed to. The tears of ...

Thank you - Veronica. Your mind is beautiful. Thanks for doing what you have done.

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Summary: Enlightening perspective and wonderful photographs.
Review: As an ex-Lusty, I admit to having a bias while reading Langley's book. Through it, I re-lived the lusty sorority which took me through college and beyond, with a "wow, that's just what it was like," on every page. So I loved it because it was true to life. Take a look at this book if, as my fellow reviewers state, you want insight into the world of peep show life or a sense of how women can bond on a unique, intense level. The photos alone say it all. Unreachable female perfection isn't the point of the Lusty; instead, the attraction of the theatre is the psychological connection between customer and performer and between performers themselves. Langley's tour captures that perspective while vulnerably revealing her own lovely (and difficult) experience.

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Summary: wonderful
Review: Langley has done a wonderful job of capturing the world of exotic dancing, not only with her text but with her photography. She delved deeply into the subject and has brought a first-person experience to the telling that paints a vivid picture.

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Summary: If you were ever curious, READ THIS BOOK
Review: Ms. Langley's book is intreging and causes the reader to question: Is it female empowerment? Is it exploitation - men of foolish women or women of foolish men? Or is it a symbiotic relationship? Is it about power at all? There is also a underline question as to how we as Americans define ourselves in our sexual roles. Whatever your answers to these questions are, Ms. Langley allows you to be a fly on the wall in a business that must protect its subculture from the outside world.
In my opinion, this book does not exploit the women who it is written about...

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Summary: Couldn't put this down!
Review: This book has a very specific audience... I don't think that it is for everyone! ...but if you've come this far then it just might be for you. It was interesting to read Erika Langley's personal text about the diverse individuals that choose to work in the alternative world of exotic dancing. What was most engrossing was that Erika crossed the line that seperated herself from the dancers, becoming an exotic dancer and not simply documenting them. Regardless if you agree with her decision, it certainly draws attention to how an outsider might perceive a situation differently than an insider and how that perception affects choices in their photography. I am a local of Seattle and certainly enjoyed learning more about this historic place of buisness. My interests in photography and feminism also influenced my enjoyment of this book