A few weeks back, I wrote a column about how “sex sells” and questioned whether women as a group are empowered or disempowered by our culture’s commercialization of female sex appeal. I mentioned, among other examples, pole-dancing at Sarasota fundraisers and the Black Diamond Burlesque troupe that has been sizzling up Sarasota’s sexy factor.[/caption]

To read my update on “eye candy for the sophisticated voyeur, check out my Sense and the City column in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune Ticket by clicking the link below:

Black Diamond Burlesque — ‘Eye-candy for the sophisticated voyeur’ — at McCurdy’s Friday