Professional strippers stage clothing-optional strike at Pa. park

Community members are angry after getting an eyeful during a stripper protest at Philadelphia’s Malcolm X Park earlier this week.

As 6ABC in Philly reports, the irate community members and the group Stilettos Inc. don’t see eye-to-eye on the worth of the flesh-exposing labor strike, aimed at covid-19 restrictions and better working conditions in the city’s gentleman’s clubs.

“This was not the place to hold it,” Kim Fuller, family life coordinator for Global Leadership Academy SW, told 6ABC. “The images that were sent to me were upsetting because they were so exposing, and my thought was, there are babies in that park. If you’re going to protest for better treatment at work or on the job, I think the place to protest is where you’re having an issue at.”

Stilettos Inc. rejects the criticism and says they plan to hold similar skin-exposing events at the park at 51st and Pine streets in West Philadelphia in the future, as 6ABC reports:

“What we were doing was fundraising, to raise funds for dancers who are not working during covid,” said Bamm Rose, founder of Stilettos Inc.

“Stripping is legal, regardless if we see said stripping poll dancing in the park, all that’s legal. We’re not here to talk about moralities, and we’re here to talk about legalities,” she said.

The broad-daylight Sunday event was held on the opposite end of the park to avoid the playground, 6ABC noted.

Still, a meeting between the strippers and some community members held at the park on Tuesday got heated, instead of finding common ground for stripper poles in the park, as this tweet from a 6ABC reporter shows:

Stilettos Inc says they held a “stripper strike” at Malcolm X Park on Saturday to raise awareness for better working conditions in gentlemen’s clubs, while fundraise for out of work dancers due to COVID. Residents say the park is NOT the place for the controversial event @6abc pic.twitter.com/E0ZQiGjx3a

— Christie Ileto (@Christie_Ileto) July 29, 2020