The 15 Best Male Striptease Scenes Before ‘Magic Mike XXL’ Jumped On Stage

10. “Slap Shot” (1977)
This striptease scene, which actually forms the climax of the Paul Newman-starring knockabout hockey movie is, like the film itself, warmhearted, affectionate and played more for laughs and absurdity than for hot-damn sexiness. But Michael Ontkean is pretty fit and does almost wholly disrobe (down to jockstrap anyway), flinging piece after piece of bulky hockey padding and team uniform off and into the crowd, all while on skates, which is impressive. So impressive that in literalizing the “lover not a fighter” ethos, he manages to halt the bloody fisticuffs happening at the other end of the rink and win the girl. It’s such infectious fun that it even looks at one point like Newman might join in —but no such luck.

9. “Mr Mom” (1983)
Because the ’80s was the heyday of male strip shows, and because everyone knows there’s nothing more hilarious than men disrobing for the hubba-hubba delectation of sexually starved women, there are more than a couple of ’80s comedies that have male striptease scenes. But one of the few that works both as a strip scene for the flashes of flesh, dress-up and choreography, and as a comic performance moment for Michael Keaton‘s affable and believable responses, is this moment from “Mr Mom” (which made into our list of Best Keaton Performances). The spaceman costumes are ridiculous, the poses are macho and I kinda dig lead guy’s non-shaven chest too, meaning that unlike many similar scenes, this strip show actually seems like it could be fun.

8. “A Night in Heaven” (1983)
So cheesy you could grate it over pasta, this muddled early ’80s nonsense features several strip scenes, including a worrisome one deep into the film in which manipulative stripper Rick (Golden Raspberry winner Christopher Atkins) is forced to disrobe at gunpoint by the irate husband of the college professor (Lesley Ann Warren) whom he’d seduced. But the more impressive striptease is the initial seduction scene taking place at a club when Warren’s frustrated, prim teacher suddenly realizes the stripper on stage is none other than the jock student she just “flunked in her class” —a phrase her overheated female companions twice mishear. Gotta love Warren’s thunderstruck expression for the rest of scene after the kiss.

7. “13 Going On 30” (2004)
I genuinely love this movie for its actually pretty heartfelt riff on the body-swap genre, as well as the winning combination of Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Garner who…I mean, awww. But you have to hand it to Sam Ball for his terrific supporting role as Jenna’s (Garner) douchey, dimwitted but famous hockey player boyfriend Alex —amid a strong supporting cast (Andy Serkis and Judy Greer are both great), he stands out. And it’s mostly down to this scene which, while brief, sees him totally commit to a horrendous would-be-erotic striptease that is as much about self-love as it is about seduction and unfolds to the strains of Vanilla Ice. Also to cherish —Garner’s reaction: “We could play Monopoly! We could play Parchese!”

6. “Trick” (1999)
While the film details the somewhat improbable series of mishaps that keep Gabriel (Christian Campbell) and Mark (Jean-Paul Pitoc) from finding a place to have sex after they first meet (Tori Spelling is perfectly cast as the ultimate buzzkill flatmate), Mark’s job as a stripper means this gay romance is not without a fair bit of writhing flesh. This scene from early in  the film is pretty jaw-dropping, as go-go dancer Mark shows off his incredible bulging, um, talents and ripped physique in a display that surely makes even the most striptease-averse do a double take. And it is refreshing overall to have a story that finally acknowledges the fact that frustrated housewives and drunken hen parties are not the sole audience for male strip acts.