British photographer and filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes’ innate ability to connect with her subjects has not only got her into east London’s most notorious strip clubs but has enabled her discovery of the “phenomenon” of clients writing handwritten fan mail to strippers.

“I started asking the girls to send me the letters they’ve received and collecting them via a Facebook group,” says the director. “I now know dancers who have retired, have had kids and have kept this material they received years ago because it means something to them.”

Dear Delicious features one of these correspondences read alongside its subject performing in the same club in which the writer of the missive first encountered her. Lines such as “Sex sells because people really, really want it already; banning it from the public sphere would be like the way Stalin banned genetics because it was anti-socialist” come straight from 1000-word-plus letter. 

“He's clearly an educated, intelligent and self-deprecating man, which is not the stereotypical strip-pub punter,” says Parker-Rhodes of its author. “This one struck me in particular because it goes beyond just obsessing over the physicality of the woman, and instead tries to understand and analyze his own motives for lusting after her. I hope it sheds light onto an area of strippers’ lives often overlooked, and hopefully is sympathetic to the complex and unusual relationship between dancer and punter.”