Photographer Sarah Gerke and I returned to the Palomino to finish my reporting for my Sunday Calendar column on the North Las Vegas Strip club that has the only license in the area to serve liquor and offer fully nude dancers together under one roof. The owners estimate that 85% of the customers are men looking to buy dances from female strippers. But on select nights the Palomino is also offering female customers the first fully nude lap dances ever available in the Las Vegas area from male strippers. Owner Adam Gentile knows he is making history with these dances but shrugs his shoulders at the importance of doing so: "It just seemed like the thing to do."

So, after watching adult star Davia Ardell feature in the downstairs section for cheering guys we went upstairs and it was really like a reverse strip club. Women at the bar, women in groups whooping it up, women alone with smokes and beers and lots of screams. A large woman in black leather was sitting behind the tip rail with a drink in one hand and her fanned out $1 bills in the other as a man on stage gyrated for her. The main difference I noticed (besides the gender change) was that rather than the AC/DC style rock music downstairs, the upstairs had more of a Luther Vandross musical vibe. Anyway, before long Sarah Gerke was taken to a back room for her naked dance and here is her report for the Buffet of her experience:

"The dancer's name was Hot Chocolate. Like all the male dancers I saw there that night he was tall, dark, handsome, and had muscles popping out everywhere. After he introduced himself he said had to get changed and come back, so I was watching the men on stage and getting mentally prepared for my dance. I heard someone behind me say 'It's your man!' as he came over, grabbed my hand and led me back to the room where they do the private dances. It was a room filled with black booths and sheer black curtains. There were windows, though, and I actually could see some neon lights as a nice background. I won't lie, I was nervous. I had no idea what was I was about to see and how close it would be coming to my face. Mr. Chocolate started by explaining he would do three songs and would get fully nude, and confirmed that that was OK with me.

The first two songs went well. He danced in front of me and I watched. I didn't know if I was supposed to talk to him or just sit there and smile, so I just sat pondering what the dancer out on stage was doing to make the women out there scream so loud. I also knew not to touch. (Unlike a woman in the main room who I saw grab dancer underneath his g-string. No one seemed to care. I can't imagine that same scenario occurring if the dancer were female and the customer male.)

By the third song the dj started and then stopped three or four different songs before finally settling on one, but it was really quiet. There were no speakers in the room we were in, so all the sound was coming in from the main room and was muffled to begin with. Then when the volume plunged it was so quiet I think I could actually hear his dreads shake as he danced. I think we were both frustrated. Since it was making it hard for him to work he excused himself at one point to yell something at the dj. That may have been the part I found most sexy. Finally for the last song they got the volume turned up and I enjoyed watching Chocolate dance to E-40. He never got too close with his nakedness, but he also knew I was going to be writing about it, and I can't help but wonder if that got me a more g-rated dance than others. Maybe I am just jaded, or maybe it is just not my thing, but I don't think I'll be spending any more of my money on male strippers. Too many men would do that and more for free if I asked them to."

Pictured above: Palomino Club owner Adam Gentile and star Sunset Thomas

(Photo: Ethan Miller / Getty Images)