Male Strippers

I have come across a lot of viewpoints on female strippers and whether or not they are exploited etc.. but very little on male strippers and men in the sex industry in general.
I’m 20 years old and among my peers male strippers like Chippendales are dismissed as ‘gay’ and the women who go are apparently giggling more than salivating.

Now I’ve been to a male strip show in Vegas and I thought some of the guys were gorgeous , others were over-tanned and over-oiled but I enjoyed the night as did my friends and here we were thinking women weren’t visual.lol!. One of the things that interested me was that afterwards the guys came out to greet their ‘fans’ and hawk signed calenders. I can’t imagine female strippers mingling like this nor can I imagine any of my male friends wanting an autograph!

So male strip shows tend to be more ‘burlesque’ , even ‘concerty’ in nature than lapdancing clubs but they are still taking their clothes off and many male strippers work solo giving lapdances at parties.

I’m wondering why there isn’t more about male strippers being exploited/objectified.

Why don’t moralists protests outside a Chippendales show. I know
where I gre up they were frequently protesting outside gentlemen’s
clubs. Is it that there is an assumption that women don’t like sex and
it is something that they ‘give up’ for men and therefore female
strippers are victims whereas for men who are always ‘up for it’
stripping is a good way to earn cash and bed women? I’ve also noticed
that the rare few times when male strippers are in the media they
usually mention that they love their job and love entertaining the
ladies there seems to be pressure on female strippers to say they
dislike their job ot at best to say they are just doing it to support a
child or pay for college. In fact a google search of male strippers
will bring several questions posted on yahoo answers from young men who
want to be strippers and there are even more questions from those who
want to go into porn. I seems that these are ‘dream jobs’ for men.

In debates on pornography I’ve also noticed that the focus is nearly
always on the female performer and there is an assumption that she
hates her job, that she was abused as a child etc.. but there is also
an assumption that the male actor is just one lucky dude! In fact if
you click on any of the sites that offer free porn the clips are almost
always titled something like ‘Lucky guy bangs two filthy sluts’ (the
issues here deserve a post of their own!).
So my question for discussion really is how do people here view male strippers.
Do you think they are objectified/exploited? Why do you think female
sex works and treated differently than male sex workers. And of course
anything else you would like to add.

This is my first post so apologies if it isn’t too coherent!