Tereza Corragio: I interview VN Alexander on her book, The Girlie Playhouse, about the changing dynamic of a stripper club that becomes more transaction and less expression. It tells the story of one dancer through the voice of another, who narrates with insight and complexity. Tori and I explore anthropology, sexuality, jealousy, shyness, possession, power and beta males. The reader is left creatively disturbed, with questions raised and left unanswered. Beyond well written and nuanced story-telling from the point of view of an introspective nude dancer, this book is an important allegory for our age–the loss of spontaneity and joy, the theft of naked innocence.