# Dancing for the Dead in Taiwan - Funeral Strippers **URL:** \ **Category:** Living in Taiwan\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054 "2011-07-12T05:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tommy525](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tommy525/32/272487_2.png) [@tommy525](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tommy525)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/1 "2011-07-12T05:41:02Z")
Hey another Taiwanese “tradition” makes it on the world stage? wHAT do you think bout all this? [dailymail.co.uk/news/article … -dead.html](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013513/Ashes-flashes-The-funeral-strippers-dance-honour-dead.html) ---
**Author:** ![baberenglish](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@baberenglish](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/baberenglish)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/2 "2011-07-12T05:44:01Z")
the tits are a present for the deceased… ---
**Author:** ![Mucha\_Man](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Mucha\_Man](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Mucha_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/3 "2011-07-12T06:47:01Z")
Noah Buchan who writes good stuff for the TT on folk culture in Taiwan had an interview with the prof a few weeks ago: [taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar … 2003507026](http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2011/06/30/2003507026) ---
**Author:** ![TheAmericanNomad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TheAmericanNomad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/TheAmericanNomad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/4 "2011-07-12T06:48:26Z")
A-W-E-S-O-M-E. ---
**Author:** ![Mucha\_Man](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Mucha\_Man](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Mucha_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/5 "2011-07-12T06:55:01Z")
> [@TheAmericanNomad](#): > > A-W-E-S-O-M-E. A-very-excellent-show-of-mammaries-eh? ---
**Author:** ![TheAmericanNomad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TheAmericanNomad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/TheAmericanNomad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/6 "2011-07-12T07:02:29Z")
All I know is, regardless of where I die and where my funeral is, I want there to be strippers at my ceremony. Then again, with my current mind and maturity level, I’d probably want strippers at my wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Elegua](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/65b543/32.png) [@Elegua](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Elegua)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/7 "2011-07-12T07:09:41Z")
Personally, when I go I want the brass band and the crying girls in burlap. ---
**Author:** ![baberenglish](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@baberenglish](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/baberenglish)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/8 "2011-07-14T02:46:22Z")
What about a big lebowski ceremony?? ---
**Author:** ![Deuce\_Dropper](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Deuce\_Dropper](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Deuce_Dropper)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/9 "2011-07-14T03:04:02Z")
I got mixed emotions about rubbing one out at a funeral, not to say I won’t do it, just afraid of what might run through my mind at a critical moment. What if I really like it? This may be how creepy fetishes begin. ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:00am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/10 "2011-07-14T06:00:38Z")
What do I think? I think it would have been better if they’d, like, included an actual funeral. I’ve seen plenty. None of those clips were anything whatsoever to do with funerals. Fucking ignorant parachute “journalists” proving that they’re several times more ignorant peasant hicks than the people they’re supposeddly “reporting” on. “I’m WAY more stupid than any of these little far-away brown people I’m making my salary off.” ---
**Author:** ![tommy525](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tommy525/32/272487_2.png) [@tommy525](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tommy525)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:02am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/11 "2011-07-14T06:02:21Z")
sandmans right, those actual two clips were NOT from funerals. The journos bending the truth again. ---
**Author:** ![sandman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sandman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/sandman)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/12 "2011-07-14T06:09:33Z")
> [@tommy525](#): > > sandmans right, those actual two clips were NOT from funerals. The journos bending the truth again. They’re working for the Daily Mail. Nobody in their right mind would describe such employees as “journalists” or even lowly “reporters.” ---
**Author:** ![Dougster](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@Dougster](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Dougster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/13 "2011-07-14T17:39:35Z")
Your average Daily Mail reader probably thinks Taiwan is in South-East Asia, and they are regarded as quite intelligent people in the UK, which speaks volumes. ---
**Author:** ![tommy525](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tommy525/32/272487_2.png) [@tommy525](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tommy525)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/14 "2011-07-14T18:03:49Z")
What? Taiwans NOT in South East Asia?? 😃 Course the “Asians” Brits refer to often mean Pakistani or Indian. Which us “real” Asians refer to simply as Pakistani or Indian. :lol Oh i forgot we are EAST ASIANS, not just simply Asians. ---
**Author:** ![tango42](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tango42](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tango42)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/15 "2011-07-14T20:36:32Z")
Agree, none of those videos is from a funeral. They are religious ceremonies, temple openings, parades, festivals, etc. I’ve attended two weddings and one temple grand opening in south and central Taiwan and watched the strippers along with entire families while slurping on a bowl of noodles. I find it especially interesting when the strippers finish and approach the head table and very humbly walk around and shake everyones hand including bride, groom, grandma, little kids, etc. Then they run off to a waiting car to head out and dance at the next wedding or event. While attending a temple opening in rural Chiayi county, It was funny to watch the Chinese Opera performers and strippers leave the stages and get into a fight because they were competing for attention from the crowds. Both had their volume max’d out and were doing anything they could to draw an audience. I think it was mostly a matter of pride. The strippers finally ended up with the audience. Chinese Opera will never die, but I guess it just isn’t as popular as it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Pingdong](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@Pingdong](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Pingdong)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/16 "2011-07-14T22:24:36Z")
thats why i love Taiwan, its one big floating contradiction. weddings, at least the good ones, even have the stripper walk to each table (like a toast) and give a flash of the pink down under. full on nudity. Its interesting how these grandmas and parents hit their kids for having a boyfriend/girlfriend etc before they graduate high school and punish them severely for doing so, but they are cool to have strippers around lol. have heard fo strippers at funerals, but never seen one. Have seen dancer/singers at funerals, and when they do their march to the temple ceremony thing, that is kind of neat. They hired crying people, to be honest, freaks me out more than the strippers. Just seems like the dead person must not had any family love them to need someone to be paid to be sad for them. I doubt it ever happens, but has anyone ever seen a _male_ stripper at a funeral/wedding/temple type deal? ---
**Author:** ![Impaler](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/f19dbf/32.png) [@Impaler](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Impaler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/17 "2011-07-15T01:47:01Z")
> [@TheAmericanNomad](#): > > All I know is, regardless of where I die and where my funeral is, I want there to be strippers at my ceremony. Become a Pastafarian. Our afterlife has a beer volcano and a stripper factory. > [@TheAmericanNomad](#): > > Then again, with my current mind and maturity level, I’d probably want strippers at my wedding. That’s Thailand. > [@Pingdong](#): > > I doubt it ever happens, but has anyone ever seen a _male_ stripper at a funeral/wedding/temple type deal? Thailand again. [teakdoor.com/living-in-thailand- … ttaya.html](http://teakdoor.com/living-in-thailand-forum/93252-my-thai-wedding-in-pattaya.html) ---
**Author:** ![bw](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@bw](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/bw)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/18 "2020-07-15T08:30:35Z")
Does anybody know how to find these stripper funerals, i want to attend one for research purposes. ---
**Author:** ![MikeN1](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@MikeN1](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/MikeN1)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/19 "2020-07-15T09:18:11Z")
I think it died out. ---
**Author:** ![tango42](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tango42](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tango42)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054/20 "2020-07-15T09:28:29Z")
Meet friends who have family in South, preferably Changhua. Start going to funerals with them. The stripper part is mostly gone, but pole dancers still do their thing if called. Also, hit some temple festivals in the south. [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/dancing-for-the-dead-in-taiwan-funeral-strippers/66054.md?page=2)