In the 1980s the ‘male exotic dancers’ of Chippendales were everywhere: on beefcake calendars and daytime TV, gyrating on stages across the world in their signature cuffs, and collars and spandex pants. But behind the powerful mullets, oiled pecs and g-strings stuffed with bills lies a much darker story. 

Welcome to Your Fantasy is about how two men—an immigrant from India, and a children’s TV producer from New Jersey—transformed a seedy strip club off the 405 freeway into a global phenomenon, and how paranoia and greed turned Chippendales into a hotbed for drugs, corruption and murder.

With over one hundred hours of archival footage, sixty-plus interviews with investigators, co-conspirators, former dancers and the women who loved them, historian Natalia Petrzela exposes one of the great, sordid, unexamined stories in American culture.