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(More customer reviews)McClear unflinchingly undresses one last time for this book, recounting her coming of age and sexuality. First from a small town, then to Detroit, before fleeing the dying, once great leviathan of the Motor City, and onwards to the bright lights of New York. She unflinchingly tells of her times in the Peeps trying to make it by while describing what is was like to work in a quickly dying genre of smut. I supposed if video killed the radio star, internet porn killed the peep shows. This memoir is witty and very well written, at times funny and sad, that shines a light into a interesting, albeit dark corner of NYC and an educated girl searching for something who stayed there a time. Well worth the read. [...] for a longer, professional review. Well worth the fifteen bucks to buy this book.
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In the last of Times Square's peep shows, a man pays $40 to watch a girl strip naked behind glass. These institutions, left over from the days when 42nd Street was the vicious center of vice, will soon disappear completely from a rapidly gentrifying New York City, their stories lost forever. Yet, the story of the peeps is too interesting and too vital to the history of Times Square not to be told.In The Last of the Live Nude Girls, Sheila McClear pulls back the curtain back on the little-documented world of the peep shows and their history. A late bloomer from the Midwest, McClear became a stripper in the peeps after finding herself adrift in New York. But after-dark Times Square seeped into her blood, and she ended up staying much longer than she imagined. The story she tells is not just of her own coming-of-age-nor is it one of sex and vice and salaciousness. Rather, it is a redemptive narrative of modern life on the fringes of society in New York City.
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