In the strip-club capital of the country, one of the most effective ways to collect toys for charity, it turns out, is to invite exotic dancers and burlesque performers to “jiggle all the way.”

Over the past 14 years, the stage show Tatas for Toys has donated an estimated $183,000 worth of toys to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

The event began in 2011, when Aaron Ross was hosting a weekly live talk show at Dante’s nightclub called “Who’s the Ross?” For the holidays, he wanted to launch a toy drive. Ross also hosted Dante’s Sinferno Cabaret , and decided to draw on the show’s talent pool of pole acrobats, contortionists and burlesque dancers.

“We basically created a Jerry Lewis-style telethon with a little more skin and, I think, a lot more laughs,” Ross said. “We had telephones

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