Driver: A Novel With a View

What really happens at a bachelor party? In light of recent scandals involving exotic dancers doing private shows, the number of us who ask that question is inevitably increasing. The answer is hard to come by, and accounts vary; there are many topics that could be addressed in the context of women taking their clothes off and contorting their bodies for money. Driver shares the stories of one man’s observations working as driver and bouncer to strippers. Tanner Turner’s entertaining and enlightening insights from his decade long career address the social, psychological, and cultural issues behind stripping.

In a sense, I am a reporter. I have taken interviews with Tanner Turner and turned them into a series of stories that anyone can sit down and read. Together these stories become a novel of sex and psychology. Sure, the outfits the girls wear have been forgotten over time, and I took the liberty to make up the polka dots and lacey fringe for the sake of the story, but the guts of the story are true. I have taken his perspective, and I have laced it with my own thoughts.

Tanner has started to hear through the grapevine about these “girls” becoming women. They’ve turned themselves into more than bodies; they’ve become cops, teachers, and mothers, even doctors. I think our obsession with the female (and male) bodies have come as result of being trapped in an adolescent state. We’ve got to become comfortable with our own bodies before we stop trying to posses and control other people’s bodies. This book begins to unravel the dynamics of men’s behaviors as they watch strippers, and in doing so begins to shed light on some of the cultural fixations on women’s bodies as objects.

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