He was out late again. When he came home, he reeked of perfume. And not Chanel. We’re talking fruity body spray: perhaps Victoria Secret? Is that glitter on his cheek? A quick interrogation won’t confirm your worst fears. There is no other woman. There are several. They traipse dark clubs in sequined thongs and 9-inch platforms. Their sex appeal drips to the floor with their discarded lingerie, and they can shake and swivel their buttocks to techno beats that mimic the hearts of paying customers. Can you pick up a dollar by clenching your buttocks? Can you stand on your head? Can you command the attention of an entire room, by simply shimmying your hips?

Do you want to? Well, if your morbid curiosity has deepened in the last 15 seconds, you’re in luck. Penthouse, one of New York City’s most prestigious gentlemen’s clubs, is now offering classes in sexuality. Taught at their Hell’s Kitchen location, these classes are bachelorette-friendly and couple-courtestic, in addition to the accompanying eye-candy in the form of dance instructor Bianca.

Bianca, an exotic-dancer turned teacher, doesn’t look like your bun-wearing, stuffy old ballet instructor. She’s not going to tell you you should reach through your fingertips, but she will put a whole new spin on your idea of a plie. She’s a Puerto Rican goddess with both long-term experience (eight years, in fact), and a culturally-born urge to dance. Like many dancers, Bianca started as a cocktail waitress at The VIP Club. However, as one of her sole providers, her great-grandmother, became increasingly sicker, Bianca began to contemplate dancing to defer the costs.

She spent some time trying other professions and finishing school, but again went back to dancing when life started throwing new financial hurdles. So how did she transition to teaching exotic dancing? It started as an experiment thought-up by her boss. He brought in a few high-society women, including “P. Diddy’s mom, Denise Richards, and a couple of writers from the New York Times… he picked four other women who were interested [in teaching], and I said, ‘let me try.’ Where I come from, dancing and salsa is a big part of culture, but I know that this kinda of dance is not the same. But at the same time, I could incorporate my dancing, my movements….” She admits there is a certain level of charisma learned through experience in exotic dancing, saying, “Here, we’re in a business where it’s so much about personality,” but is quick to add that she’s never found any girl unteachable.

The experiment proved successful, and Bianca and the other girls started teaching classes at Penthouse on “off” days, or slow days, Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Because they administer these teachings in the private-dance rooms, they never teach during the club’s busier times. Eventually, Bianca became one of the more sought-after instructors, and now these “sexuality teachings” are taught primarily by her and one other dancer.

Bianca’s classes usually run for about 30 minutes for a couples’ party to an hour for a group, and are hosted in one of several elaborately-plush private rooms, named by color. “The Black Room” can hold a party of 30 guests, while “The Red Room” and “The Silver Room” are designated for smaller groups. The rates range from 25 dollars per girl to 50 dollars  for a couple. When I asked if it was ever awkward to teach couples, Bianca explained that the men were usually relieved to have an outside party inevitably take their side: “Men don’t want to mention or bring up anything, because they don’t know how to say it…. we misinterpret everything. I think it’s important in a relationship for us [women] to bring it up, and not get worked up, and just have a discussion to help in our relationships…” She thinks of herself almost as a couples’ counselor, and vehemently believes that the art of seduction could only truly be taught by a dancer. “I’ve been asked to teach by gyms, but I won’t do it….it’s not the same. The beauty here is, the women actually take their clothes off. They have a cocktail, they relax, and then they actually go through the experience…” Bianca feels strongly that these classes not only help spice up love lives, but also to break harsh stigmas, through personal experience. “There are these taboos about dancers, that we are basically hookers… This is not an easy job. We are real people. This is what we do; we entertain.” She invites you to try it for yourself.

Bianca, in all her luscious, exotic femininity, is an all-around rad chick. She wants you to be comfortable, no matter your size, age, or religion. She encourages her pupils to strip down to their skivies, so that they’ll be less inhibited to do it in front of their partner, but she is more than accepting of any hesitations. “I once taught a group of Hacidic Jewish women, and they didn’t take anything off. At first, i didn’t understand… they were all sitting the same way, and I thought maybe I was being set up… but they were cool. We get people from all over the world. Everybody is different. When they walk in, and when they leave, I know they are totally different people.”

Bianca, herself, never strips down for her classes. She notes that women already have enough insecurities, and recognizes the unfortunate, innate tendency to compare one’s body to another’s,”I don’t want them to feel intimidated. It’s all about them. If i take my clothes off, they see my body type, my confidence, then it’s no longer about them.” Like a true hustler though, before Bianca gets you naked, she spends the first half of the class talking. She describes this part as “the psychology section,” including what to wear, what to say to your man, and overall “…things we know, but we don’t talk about. Things we can use to our advantage.” After this, she asks her girls to stand up and imitate the moves that she does, and then explains how to take off their clothes as gracefully as possible. Bianca’s best tip? “Don’t move like you move in a night club, because when the clothes come off, it doesn’t look as good. Everything goes in a different direction.”

Now, I’m not into ladies, but if I was, Bianca’s schedule would be booked. The spicy tart is super-sensual, and I think it’s safe to assume that as appreciative as the ladies are to be taught by an experienced sex-pot, their other halves would be equally-engaged. “Even if the man is in the class, I don’t teach him to dance. He just sits there…for her to practice…Because I’m in the room, it gets very exciting. I don’t let the guy touch the woman. He wishes he could, but this is the club… there are guidelines. You can see the temptation in their hands. I call them ‘octopus hands:’ once they touch, they never let go!”

There are many reasons to try a dance class at Penthouse, including getting comfortable in your own skin, sprucing up your sex life, fulfilling your curiosity, but Bianca makes a good point: “This is an investment. Women come up with excuses not to be sexy anymore, they get lazy, they get comfortable. After a few years, is when you need to do these things… When you have sex, it’s 10% of the relationship, and when you don’t, it’s 90%. Does that make sense? No, but thats the way men think.”

Classes are scheduled from 7-10 p.m. on Saturdays, and 5-10 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays. “It’s classy, it’s not raunchy. It’s therapy, actually. Guys come here to have fun.” And now girls do too.