{"product_id":"9781416579861","title":"All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.","description":"A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SELF. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI felt that I'd made a transformation as surely as Superman slipping out of a phone booth or Wonder Woman doing a sunburst spin. I was bare-ass in a room of paying strangers, a stripper. After years of wondering what it would be like, I had done it -- faced a fear, defied expectation, embraced a taboo self. It was only the beginning....\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAll I Could Bare\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a mild-mannered graduate student who \"took the road less clothed\" -- a decision that was life changing. Seymour embarked on his journey in the 1990s, when Washington, D.C.'s gay club scene was notoriously no-holds-barred, all the while trying to keep his newfound vocation a secret from his parents and maintain a relation-ship with his boyfriend, Seth. Along the way he met some unforgettable characters -- the fifty-year-old divorcé who's obsessed with a twenty-one-year-old dancer, the celebrated drag diva who hailed from a small town in rural Virginia, and the many straight guys who were \"gay for pay.\" Seymour gives us both the highs (money, adoration, camaraderie) and the lows (an ill-fated attempt at prostitution, a humiliating porn audition). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ultimately coming clean about his secret identity, Seymour breaks through taboos and makes his way from booty-baring stripper to Ph.D.-bearing academic, taking a detour into celebrity journalism and memorably crossing paths with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige along the way. Hilarious, insight-ful, and touching, \u003ci\u003eAll I Could Bare\u003c\/i\u003e proves that sometimes the \"wrong decision\" can lead to the right place.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153781866736,"sku":"9781416579861","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416579861_p0.jpg?v=1763727601","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416579861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}