the joint was located on lower stemmler , all the way downtown , where the stem became a narrower passage lined with meatpacking houses , the occasional restaurant , and an assortment of clubs featuring masturbaters in drafty dungeons ; cross-dressers wearing smeared lipstick , high heels , and crude tattoos ; raving teeny boppers in spangles and pinkish-green hair ; pneumatic west coast starlets thrilling to the big bad city or - as was the case here in the telephone company - an assortment of topless girls wearing thong panties and gyrating on a crescent-shaped stage .