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b"Let\\u2019s talk about Rouge at the Strat. (And it\\u2019s Rouge as in \\u201cblush,\\u201d not Rogue as in \\u201cRogue One: A Star Wars Story.\\u201d)So when Rouge was announced earlier this year, I was definitely interested. It\\u2019s probably no secret at this point that I\\u2019m a horn dog, and like my Vegas shows to be titillating. I also believe that what\\u2019s good for the goose is good for the gander, and out of a sense of fairness I once took my wife to a male review; something I probably won\\u2019t ever do again. It\\u2019s not so much watching the men dance that I have a problem with, it was all the screaming. Why do women feel the need to shriek like banshees during these shows? He\\u2019s not going to fuck the loudest one in the room! So for the sake of preserving what\\u2019s left of my already terrible hearing, I\\u2019m opting out of male reviews for the future.\\xa0 That being said, I\\u2019m willing to bet that a decent looking dude could park himself at the bar outside the Thunder From Down Under Theater around 11:30 at night, and it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. This is just a theory, but if it happens to work out for a listener, you\\u2019re welcome. Just don\\u2019t be creepy.Anyway, I digress. Rouge bills itself as a male and female topless show, and \\u2018The Sexiest Show in Vegas.\\u2019 We recently decided to check it out and see for ourselves. First, Rouge is at the Strat. This is not a place we\\u2019ve ever spent much time, because it\\u2019s the Strat. You kind of need a specific reason to go there.\\xa0 Now that we had a reason, we ventured over to see it.\\n\\nThe Mad Max reboot is really weird.\\nSome words about the showroom.\\xa0 It\\u2019s on the 2nd level, almost directly above where you line up to take the elevator up to the skypod. When we entered, an usher did the typical \\u201clet\\u2019s see your tickets so we can walk you to your seats\\u201d thing, but it was kind of weird because they had performers spread all through the audience; including right next to these ushers. The performers were dressed in these really extravagant costumes - probably the best costumes of the whole show - and they were kind of leering at us in a way that was probably meant to be sexy?\\xa0 Honestly it kind of threw me off, because I\\u2019m trying to show the usher my ticketing information on my phone, but I\\u2019m also looking at this person in a leather corset who\\u2019s next to me licking their lips. I mean, normally that\\u2019s not a bad thing, but I felt like my attention was kind of pulled two different ways.We found their showroom to be a decent space, with a big variety in seating, including the booth tables that seem to be a disappearing part of Vegas entertainment. I had a \\u201cpreferred seating\\u201d table, which consisted of four chairs around a small half circle table. I was hoping that we would have the table to ourselves, because \\u201cStranger Danger\\u201d but a couple that I\\u2019m pretty sure were a hooker and her John were seated next to us shortly after. She got paid for her time and treated to a show. Lucky gal\\u2026\\xa0 (Side note: they did end up leaving before the show was over.\\xa0 When that meter\\u2019s running, I guess you can\\u2019t waste too much time on passive entertainment when more active forms await.)\\n\\nThis fuckin' guy...\\nLet\\u2019s talk about the show itself.\\xa0 There\\u2019s an emcee, who struck me as kind of a poor-man\\u2019s Gazillionaire (from Absinthe).\\xa0 He seemed like he was trying to come across as this vaudeville showman but his jokes, phony French accent, and porn-stache made a lot of the humor land in more of a sleazy way rather than a naughty way. It\\u2019s a fine line, I know.The show has several vignettes or sections. There\\u2019s a running bit they go back to a few times throughout the show with this married couple who are unsatisfied because they\\u2019re bored with their bedroom life and apparently aren\\u2019t communicating about it. So I guess the show can be viewed as a journey through their exploration of kinks, because by the end, everyone\\u2019s fucking and happy and fucking happy.My biggest issue with the show is that for me, some of these vignettes work, and some of them don\\u2019t.\\xa0 There\\u2019s a whole F"