While nipples might not be what you want to be reading over your morning coffee, they seem to still be causing a little hassle on the Burlesque front.
Late last week, a news story caught my eye, a burlesque artist had caught in trouble for exposing a nipple in a dance routine. How, in 2009, can this cause a stir...when women expose everything in tabloids and while sex pretty much sells everything from shampoo to Kinder Bueno?
It seems this 'no nipple law' comes from an archaic law that bans the exposure of a naked nipple. Just think of the uproar caused by Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl - known now as 'Nippletapegate'? It resulted in a record $550,000 fine levied by the FCC and caused an immediate crackdown in the media in issues of common decency.
However, what differentiates burlesque from stripping is that it does not lend itself to vulgarity but rather enticement.
Belfast's answer to Dita Von Teese, Nik Fisher says: "It's not just taking all your clothes off, then it just becomes stripping, it is all about the art of tease." Burlesque as an artform is naughty, yes, teasing, yes but dirty? No.
Furthermore, Burlesque artists should not suffer sanctions for either wardrobe malfunctions whatever causes a nipple to become exposed...especially not in this era where sex is consumed for breakfast.
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