HUNKOMANIA IN THE NEWS AND PRESS
Meet the Male Stripper Who Used to Work in Finance: ‘I Love My Job’
As part of our backbreaking field research for Gratuitous Male Objectification Week, our exhaustive tribute to Magic Mike, we spent an evening with some friendly, well-moisturized, nearly naked strippers at Hunk-A-Mania’s midtown outpost, Manhattan Men. “D,” a 33-year-old resident of Morningside Heights, told us his story. I was really shy before I started doing this….
The Hottest Male Strippers in America
After seeing the half-naked hotness that was Magic Mike, we were craving more. That’s why we went on a search for the hottest male strippers in America. These sexy studs are from three of the top venues in the country. They made the cut—and then some. Read more: Hot Male Strippers – Pictures of Sexy…
The Real “Magic Mike” Live
After seeing the half-naked hotness that was Magic Mike, we were craving more…If you got hot and bothered watching the hunks on screen in the hit movie Magic Mike, get ready for the real deal live. Hunk-O-mania the popular New York based male revue. The show takes place at Club Elegance in Times Square, NY…
Hunk-o-mania: A Totally, Completely, Unbiased Review
Recently, I was invited to a gathering of ladies to celebrate the upcoming nuptials of my childhood friend [i.e. bachelorette party]. I had never been to a bachelorette party before, so my only sense of this sort of thing was the scene in Bridesmaids when they get kicked off the plane for being suspected terrorists–and…
Wake Up with Taylors male Revue for Summer Sex School
To send off Cosmo’s Summer Sex School, we invited the boys of NYC’s Male Revue Show, “Hunk-O-Mania” to come by and play– Magic Mike style and man did they bring it. In front of an audience of listeners and Taylor and Kenny to MC the entire event they danced their little cute tushes off.. If…
NYC’s real “Magic Mikes” reveal tricks of their trade
Backstage at HunkOMania in Times Square, a half dozen male dancers put the finishing touches on their already perfect physiques: greasing their washboard abs with oil, making their biceps bulge with resistance bands and adjusting their postage-stamp-sized Speedos. A chorus of “Take it off!” builds to a frenzied crescendo outside as the club full of…
Great Ex-Pecs-Tations: One Night at Hunk O’Mania
March 21, 2019 at 9:02AM by Anna Breslaw Within ten minutes of taking my seat by the bar at Hunk O’Mania, I was eye level with at least 15 different sets of pecs. Some were clad in the grey tank tops that belong to the waitstaff, working their way up to the main stage, and…
Jay en el cuerpo de José
Los strippers están de moda. El estreno de Magic Mike ha puesto a muchas mujeres a soñar con hombres musculosos dispuestos a complacerlas. Jay Laboss hace realidad esta fantasía: desde hace tres años es uno de los hunks latinos más cotizados del popular club Hunk-O-Mania, en Manhattan. Cada noche, jóvenes sensuales como Jay entretienen a…
Channing Tatum’s ‘Magic Mike’ Gets Mixed Reviews From City’s Male Strippers
NEW YORK CITY — Male strippers across the city said the new Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey film “Magic Mike” could learn a lot from the real thing. Veteran male strippers — who were treated to an early screening of the Steven Soderbergh-directed movie — approved of the casting of leading hunk Tatum, who launched…
Investigation: What Do Real Male Strippers Think of ‘Magic Mike’?
It’s no secret that Channing Tatum’s banana hammock will be bringing all the girls to the theater when Magic Mike releases this Friday – it’s hard to say no to a night out featuring the greased-up, oft-shirtless actor embodying a stripper with dreams of chucking it all to build custom coffee tables. (Read: he’s good…
The Male Exotic Dancers of Hunk-A-Mania on Their Grooming Routines
Last Saturday night, I did the kind of intrepid backstage reporting I never thought I would as a beauty editor: I went behind the scenes at New York City’s Hunk-A-Mania show to find out about the grooming regimens of male strippers (this, of course, in honor of Gratuitous Male Objectification Week on The Cut). The…
Magic Mike renews interest to stripper stage
It’s true that a lot of the exotic male dancing shows have seen a decline in attendance in recent years, according to Armand Peri, manager of Hunkamania in Manhattan for 14 years. But he said his shows haven’t; in fact, he sells out his 300 seats at most performances. Peri, 46, has 40 dancers in…
Secrets of Male Strippers
Hunk-O-Mania runs a two-hour show in Midtown Manhattan Thursday through Saturday nights, catering to almost exclusively crowds of birthday and bachelorette parties. Like in Magic Mike, there’s a stage show with costumes and dancing — more of a cabaret act than what you’d see at a female strip club. “It’s become an American tradition to…
How Male Strippers Really Dress for Work
“I wear these jeans because they have a great butt on them, see?” said a male stripper, who identified himself as “D,” jumping to his feet and turning around. His butt looked very nice indeed. I noted that he was wearing Hudsons, and he leaped at the comment. “How did you know that?” he asked,…
Divorce Parties: Congratulations on your Split!
After staying late at work, Allison Smith*, a 32-year-old event planner, has 45 minutes to get ready. Vampire Weekend blasts through her East Village apartment as she shimmies into her blue Betsey Johnson dress. She applies eyeliner, straightens her hair, rushes out the door and hails a cab to Hunkmania, the male cabaret at Duvet,…