Involving striptease that's sexy, got stick for undressing (6)

Times Cryptic #28599 | 5 Down | 2023-05-10
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

go to the naughty step if you put in EROTIC (as I did at first). the three words are “undressed” as above. Is striptease exotic? Seems an odd definition to choose, unless the setter also was thinking about clueing EROTIC which doesn’t parse. EDIT it seems from below comments exotic dancing is a common euphemism for striptease in this context and is in Collins as such.

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