Live Nude Girls Unite! uses a sensational profession to illustrate a common problem: employers are doing less to protect & benefit their employees while financially benefiting more from their labor. I wouldn’t mind seeing this documentary again because it is a very good example of how a person making a documentary can effectively and simultaneously be the subject and the creator (though I could have done without the schmaltzy stand up). The film is most effective when it focuses on all the dancers as they relate employer & customer abuse. I was delighted to see how much the patrons and the men working there seemed to care for the dancers and were willing to support them. What was not surprising was that despite being a female-owned business, gender (talk in a ladylike or coy manner or blame the stripper for a violent customer) & racial norms (women of color are assigned less profitable time slots) were enforced in a very rigid way because feminism is not as important as profit and clearly the owners think that the status quo is more profitable. Some may find it distracting, and it was definitely off-topic, but I thought that the director did the right thing by filming her coming out as a stripper to her mom, who is a physician and advocate for sex workers, to illustrate why other dancers are so concerned about their privacy and taking the risk of public exposure by unionizing.