Strip Clubs in Trouble?

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cdbb98
I have been traveling a lot in the last month handling both family and business matters. At the end of some days, I need to unwind and turn my brain off so I head for a nearby strip club. This is especially the case when I am alone and in a town other than the one in which I live but I go to clubs in my home city of Van Nuys as well.

There have been some nice moments at these clubs but overall they have not been great experiences.

I thought at first it was me and that I had simply been to so many strip clubs in my life than I had gotten bored. I could never get bored of good looking naked women of course. If that ever happens, you could put me in a cemetary plot and start filling it with dirt. I did however think at first that the stress of what I was dealing with was harming my enjoyment of the clubs. Usually a visit to a strip club relieves stress for me and not just because and if I have a good sexual experience. Usually, it is a way of getting away from reality. Inside a strip club there are no windows and usually no clocks and the outside world seems to go away.

At times though that makes my thoughts turn inward and I feel like I am just delaying the solving of the problems instead of doing things to solve them.

I finally decided that that was not why I was not enjoying these clubs as much as I always did. I decided the clubs were different.

I first began to think this in a club in Indianapolis a few weeks ago. A dancer I found mildly attractive was hitting on me to spend $$$$ on private dances with her. That is not new of course but she was relentless. I said no and she would offer something else. Finally, she made me an incredible offer of a lot of sex (the works) for very little money. I would have said yes but there was something creepy about it.

It was an offer any heterosexual male would have grabbed but when I hesitated, she started crying. I heard her say "Jesus Christ, what do I have to do to make some money in this fucking place"?

She was a very attractive woman. She was not the kind of dancer I would have thought would have trouble making some money in that fucking place.

I looked around and I had not noticed before how empty the place was and how the guys who were there were not throwing around money very freely. This was on a Saturday night and if you can't make money in a strip club on Saturday night, you might as well have the women put their clothes on and have them start serving coffee like Starbucks. The girl told me how bad business was for her and I believed her.

She said management had instituted a new split on the money. She had to pay the club a minimum and tip out another minimum fee. That made it possible that she would dance all night and even sell a few privates and not go home with a cent. Under the old system, she split with them so if business was bad, she went home with at least something. In the next few clubs I went to, I made a point of asking the girls about the pay system.

In every single club, they told me it was getting harder to make money. Business was down. Fewer guys were coming in and they were spending less.

In every single club, the management had changed the deal to make sure the club made more and the dancers had to sell harder to make decent money.

I spoke to a friend who is still active in the business. He gave me his take on it.

He said most clubs are in a certain amount of financial trouble. He said the grandfather rule was the only thing stopping a lot of them from closing.

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Rabbit21
12 years ago
Some more details on why clubs are in trouble and the reason why the grandfather rule is effective here would be helpful. Beyond that I've always felt that strip clubs are due for a "market correction.". We'll see what happens over the next few years. Personally I think a lot of consolidation is coming which will definitely put a crimp in the mileage.
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CapnJer
12 years ago
In Fort Myers FL the girls in all three clubs are not making money. One of the big reasons is that the club charges $50 total for a dancer to work an 8 hour shift. When the construction industry tanked, so did the workers who spent late afternoons in the clubs. The smart girls soon left. The less attractive girls stayed. Now the goodly portion of the dancers are big time pill heads who's opening line is 'you wanna dance?'
Club management at Scarlets (ex, Escapades, ex, Foxy Lady) has run off the regular customers and intimate the dancers for sex outside the club. A'market correction', including new management, because the present organization is killing the business.
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IfIGottaBeDamned
12 years ago
Unless cdbb98 is the blogger behind http://stripclubhound.blogspot.com/ (which I doubt), this article is plagiarized from:

http://stripclubhound.blogspot.com/2012/…

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Alucard
12 years ago
"Unless cdbb98 is the blogger behind http://stripclubhound.blogspot.com/ (which I doubt), this article is plagiarized from:

http://stripclubhound.blogspot.com/2012/…"

How many members here at TUSCL have High School Diplomas? How many have a University degree?

Those without a University degree may NOT know what plagiarism is, or even care what it is!
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Ermita_Nights
12 years ago
OP's only review is also copied, from Petertips. Or maybe it's the other way around, I can't tell.
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georgmicrodong
12 years ago
Did you flag it? That should remedy the review at least. And if you mentions the article in the flag, that might eliminate it, too.
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Ermita_Nights
12 years ago
I did not flag it. It's possible Petertips is a splog and copied it from tuscl. Or the OP really wrote it and posted it in both places. But maybe I should... you think so?
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Tucker40
12 years ago
So, if the article post is a repost, does that make it any less valid? Most of my dancer acquaintances are telling tales of little money at the clubs.
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randy77
12 years ago
"if the article post is a repost, does that make it any less valid? Most of my dancer acquaintances are telling tales of little money at the clubs."

Totally agree. The article makes very valid points and reinforces what I've noticed as well. More importantly, this is information we can use to get get more service for less money. It's a buyers market now.
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jack0505
12 years ago
One of the problems is that the clubs are priced high. For what 15 minutes of dances would cost at a club, there are "escorts" out there offering full sex.
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mmdv26
12 years ago
Making good profits in the strip club business isn't "fall off a log" easy like it was a few years ago. Except where LE is keeping close tabs on what is happening, mileage is significantly higher as a result of the recession.

Consolidation in the industry probably won't have much of a dampening effect on mileage as the clubs that the sharks want to acquire are usually not above-average mileage to start with. They are well-run clubs with a liquor license and dancers who are less likely to color outside the lines thereby resulting in minimal LE oversight.
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minnow
12 years ago
"If article is a repost, does that make it any less valid"? No, but it does make this particular SUBMISSION invalid, as articles submitted should be ones own thoughts, experiences, ideas, etc. Would you give any credibility to someone who reposted, say one of lopaws zbone.com club reviews here ?

gmd- I don't see any provisions to flag an article, only club reviews.
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Joe from NJ
12 years ago
I don't care how many places a good article is published.
Yes the economy is hurting. My favorite town is Las Vegas, for all the clubs. However with the economic downfall of the town, the girls are really hurting. There are less girls though, because the California girls are not as numerous, as the drive is not worth it.

But why spend hundreds of $$ to go to a VIP and try to get extras, when a hooker/escort/OTC is cheaper, and you know what you are getting.
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