Philly Thursdays: 70's Sex and Burlesque's Le Petit Mort

Thursday is certainly tempting and titillating this week, as not one, but two events feature the beast with two backs tonight:

• The ICA is hosting a lecture with Penn history prof Richard Meyer titled "Art, Sex, and Censorship in the 1970s." Wait, there was censorship in the 1970s? Holy post-McCarthyism, Batman! This totally non-soporific lecture is at 5:30 PM sharp on 188 S. 36th St.
• For the visually inclined among you: get your (goth) striptease on! The famed Suicide Girls are bringin' burlesque back to Philly at the Starlight Ballroom (9th and Spring Garden) with their shakes, shimmies, and septum piercings. PA's Pac for Progress is sponsoring the shindig, so you can feel all progressive and stuff as you ogle chicks wearing duct tape over their nipples. Doors open at 8.

With all this sexy stuff going on, maybe Thursday really is the new Friday.

(Image credit: Flickr user Sookie)