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Would you endure a ferocious whipping to see some hotties stripping? Could you suffer beatings, bruises and lacerations in return for a lap dancer’s saucy gyrations? Are you willing to put yourself through dire distress for the reward of watching a babe undress?

The contestants in Strip For Pain are. It’s a live stage show hosted by alt.porn star Joanna Angel alongside cult filmmaker and special effects artist Doug Sakmann, in which male entrants pit their libido against their pain threshold, taking on increasingly tortuous tasks in order to see girls get progressively more naked.

The show’s been touring US nightclubs for seven years, but in 2010 the Strip For Pain team is determined to turn it into a UK television programme.

“All the American TV networks we’ve spoken to have said the concept’s too violent and raunchy for them, even when the ladies keep pasties and thongs on instead of getting totally nude,” says Doug. “But I co-produced a similarly nuts comedy shock show called Troma’s Edge TV for Channel 4 in Britain years ago, so I’m hoping the UK might be open-minded enough to take it on.

In the meantime, we’re putting together a Strip For Pain ‘best bits’ DVD, and selling episodes on the internet through porn site Hotmovies.com.”

This year the Strip For Pain gang will also appear at the Miami Exxxotica porno convention, where contestants will be challenged to snort powdered wasabi ‘cocaine’ in a Scarface-themed show.

Past trials have included players being flogged with wires, electrocuted, punched in the face, having rat traps snapped onto their bollocks, deep-throating outsized dildos, and carrying mouthfuls of horse cum repeatedly across the stage in a race to fill up a pitcher.

“We’ve done videogame-themed shows where blokes get hit on the head with heavy barrels, like in Donkey Kong, or walloped with bibles and balloons full of ice-cold Castlevania ‘holy water,’” says Strip For Pain’s creator and producer Nick Danger.

“Making entrants take a large dose of laxative and put on a diaper while burning the hairs off their arms is another favourite. And we’ve discovered that you can knock a man out with a huge rubber cock if you hit him hard enough.”

What kind of man volunteers for this kind of punishment? “Some do it to prove they’re tough, some really have the hots for the strippers, and some are seriously into S&M,” says Doug.

“We’ve even had gay masochists compete, who clearly weren’t interested in seeing tits! It gets extremely competitive.

Unbeknownst to us, one bloke had taken some strong painkillers before a show, so he was able to hold his hand over a camping stove for a ridiculously long time without registering the pain.

He ended up with third-degree burns, and an X-ray showed his bones were like those in a cooked joint of meat.” Maybe the girls should’ve given him a spit roast as well as a strip.

For more info go to Stripforpain.com and Hotmovies.com

Pictures by Nate "Igor" Smith