The lights dim, the throbbing music intensifies and a smoky cloud descends onto the stage. Slowly, as the first strains of a hip-hop song begins, a lone male comes forward from behind a black curtain. After work, men can go to dozens of female strip clubs on the island. But on Wednesdays, Fridays and alternating Saturdays, the roles are reversed, and women can visit Venus to watch men bump and grind. Inside the smokey nightclub, the ladies sit in groups, laughing and clapping as the men dance out, one at a time, before circulating around the room.
Parties abound, with celebrations ranging from birthdays to bachelorette parties.
As the men work the room, they pick someone from the audience to gyrate against. The more money they get in their g-strings or pull from a woman's blouse, the more enthusiastic they get. Some of the men just position themselves directly in the face of a woman, others rub their whole bodies against a viewer. One of Yamaguchi's dancers, who had been with the company for the last seven years, danced while attending undergraduate school and law school, Yamaguchi said. He recently left to go to the mainland to finish his law degree.