It may the Last Night at the Strip Club but it’s a new beginning for a business woman

by Kathia Woods

Covid 19 affected every business including sex workers. A Toronto stripper names Andrea Werhun was laid off when her club was shut down due to the pandemic.

In the documentary Last Night at the Strip Club made by Nicole Bazuin she discusses how the loss of her everyday gig makes one pivot one thoughts toward empowerment. She takes us on an intimate journey of online sex work.

Andrea Werhun discovers new ways to earn money doing sex work online. She connects with her clientele that are equally suffering from withdrawal while simultaneously working on her ambitions. Andrea Werhun is a fun subject. She is charismatic and intelligent. She sexy without being vulgar. We to often have sex workers displayed as down and out, desperate, and lazy. She’s none of those things.

The viewer is forced to expand their definition of what a sex worker looks like.

Werhun targets her audience, sees herself as muse, and writer. She’s a businesswoman who happens to strip. This short focuses on the worker rather than on the client’s perception and desire. Seeing her outline her future, wants and ambitions is refreshing and badly needed. Werhun understands that her looks can do more than just get her instant cash but open other doors for her if marketed correctly.

She uses humor to point out the hypocrisies. Last Night at the Strip Club forces the viewer to see the person not the objectification. Sexual empowerment doesn’t mean lose or lacking morals. Werhun comfort with her body and sexuality is powerful because she’s in control of it.

The best part of Last Night at the Strip Club is that it’s a woman’s story of how she’s adjusting her business during these hard times just like any other business. She understood that she can take her act from the strip club to the internet. Things may never return to normal, but men and at times women will always want to look at naked bodies. Viewers may hit play to see some tits and ass but stay for Werhun. She is teaching us in a fun and flirtatious way that sex work is real work and strippers are businesswomen.