Just now, Jane is acting as a candidate in "The Game Show" on X-channel. X-channel is an adults-only pay-TV channel. However, this little bit of information is unknown to Jane. She was asked on the street whether she knew the show, and only when she answered no was she given a strategically abbreviated description. The rules she knew were as follows: she will be asked several questions, each with four answers to chose from. Every right answer will gain her 250$. Every wrong answer will lose her a piece of clothing. However, if she still has a piece of clothing to remove, she will get 250$ even if the answer is wrong. There will be 12 questions altogether.
All this and her agreement to participate had been filmed and shown to the audience before she entered the studio. The audience had also been told about the extra rules Jane is to find out about soon.
The questions are carefully chosen. The difficulty level is such that the average participant doesn't know the answer but feels she could/should. The multiple choice answer options are designed to be misleading. Of course, by knowledge or sheer luck, a candidate will still get some right answers, but nowhere near enough. In effect, the candidates are led to believe they have a fighting chance while inevitably ending up naked.
After her first wrong question, Jane gets her first mild surprise. Her undressing will be on a small podium, and when she steps towards it, playback plays "the stripper". Okay, she could have guessed this, and it wasn't really bad, but still, she had expected this to be something which is told in advance.
Not surprisingly, she starts with her footwear, which is almost always the first thing an amateur removes. Besides, there's no point in playing a strip game (or any game) if you don't follow the rules and conventions.
Jane can hardly be seen as an exhibitionist at this point. She has always been somewhat on the conservative side, due to always considering the possible consequences of her actions. People with this habit usually can't get wild even if they want to. She had welcomed this TV show as a safe opportunity to convince herself that she, too, can do interesting and exciting things. Besides, the rules mean that she will get 1250$ for the five pieces of clothing she had been wearing when she was asked to participate.
Removing footwear during a striptease always looks a little awkward, especially outside of a practised routine. But Jane manages surprisingly well (I guess that pre-planning mind is of some use after all). The secret, as she has seen right away, is to avoid anything that disrupts the motions she makes to the music or causes her to unbalance herself. So, slightly shaking herself to the music, she bends her right leg at the knee all the way up to waist height, where her right hand quickly pushes the strap of her sandal over her ankle. She then kicks her leg to get the sandal off her foot. Since this sufficiently meets the criteria of "not awkward", she then repeats this with her other sandal. This leaves her barefoot, and she walks back to the moderator.
While she "stripped", she was focused on not looking stupid, but now she wonders if she has just performed an erotic act in public, even if it was just removing shoes. It may not sound like much, but to Jane, it was an important first step.
Since she rarely walks barefoot even in her own home, she's also very aware of the feel of the studio floor under her bare soles. In a way, it also feels naughty to walk around barefoot where everybody else is expected to, and does, wear shoes.
