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'The safe word is unicorn': can you stomach Magic Mike Live?

Channing Tatum brings his strip show and self-help rally to London, offering consumerist feminism of the purest form

Magic Mike is a 2012 film about male strippers, based on the early life of its star Channing Tatum. It is a tale of loss, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and now, as if to entirely miss the point of itself, it is a live strip show in Las Vegas and London. There is nothing about loss here. I waited for it, but it didn’t come. Perhaps stripping, by itself, is the wrong form to describe loss of soul?

There is opportunity here for women and they know it. Groups of women, some old but mostly young, sit waiting with cocktails the size of cauldrons. Their screams are barely suppressed. Because it’s their turn now – this is a form of revenge. There is opportunity too for men, but of a different kind. Tickets are selling on resale websites for £675, but I don’t know what the dancers are paid. You’re worth what you can prise out of their purses, Tatum is told in the film by Matthew McConaughey.

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