For all the talk I hear about how good of a strip club town Portland, Oregon is, I have found it to be "air-Dance" city. I assume the reason that people like the place is because you have naked women and booze...a great combination.
For me, without the great lap dance, the booze only takes you so far.
other than getting drunk and going to Jiggles, where else can I get good two way touch laps and some drinks to boot?
Casa Diablo is worth a visit IMO. Dances are a little more expensive but I received a good grind...YMMV
It's worse than Seattle, and Seattle ain't too good.
[I'm surprised no one plugged "The Dancin' Bare".]
I have heard that Portland has the most strip clubs than any other city..there has got to be one good place, no?
Casa Diablo - Portland, Oregon
This is the only portland club on the top 100.
Seems like you should be able to get a good LD in a town called Beaverton, lol.
Beaverton: nice name, but too much traffic! Maybe a 'carbon monoxide high' would make the dances seem better...
One of my favs from Jiggles, who gives very good dances, says that she also dances at a club on Barbur; I think it's the Boom Boom Room (but could be Big Bang). She says she does the same dances there as at Jiggles, with booze. Check it out and report back.
When I was there about six years ago all I could find was an air dance...beautiful girs...but only air dances.
sigh
Beaver State Loses Top Strip Club Bragging Rights POSTED BY SARAH MIRK ON WED, FEB 11, 2009 AT 6:05 PM BREAKING NEWS, guys. It's a point of pride and/or chagrin in Portland that we have the most strip clubs per capita of anywhere in the country, but that rumor is statistic mostly just because everyone says it's true. Okay, rumormongers, read it and weep: John Voge, editor of adult industry trade mag Exotic says Portland has lost its place at the top of the strip club pole.
I asked Voge to dig up some figures on the number of strip clubs in Portland for the story I wrote this week about Montavilla residents discussing special zoning laws for adult stores in Oregon. He returned with some shocking data.
Back in 2005, Portland had 7.4 strip clubs per 100,000 residents, while other centers of sin, Las Vegas and San Francisco had 5.8 and 2.2, respectively. So it seems that Portland was the number one strip club champ nationally. But then, in 2006, the small town of Springfield just outside Eugene dared to challenge the title. The opening of Springfield's fifth strip club, Phil's Clubhouse, bumped the hamlet up to 9.3 strip clubs per 100,000 residents. And guess what? The state senator representing Springfield is Bill Morrisette, the senator featured in this week's article who's pushing the measure exempting adult stores from Oregon's free speech definition.
But also, Morrisette informed me that Springfield now has SEVEN strip clubs, which means Springfield (pop. 58,000) now has 12 strip clubs per 100,000 residents which means they are totally kicking Portland's ass.
Obviously, Morrisette has much different goals than boosting Springfield's ranking in the stripper olympics. He wants to be able to zone strip clubs out of Springfield's downtown because they create a bad environment - he says prostitutes walk up and down the block in front of the downtown clubs. "It's not a matter of putting them out of business," Morrisette says of the adult stores, "It's a matter of getting them elsewhere."
As a state, Oregon isn't even the top strip club locale. According to Voge, it's West Virginia. Ouch. But, Voge points out, Portland is the only town that seems eager to claim the ranking of most strip clubs per capita, so why not just keep the crown on the Rose City? "If anyone could make the title of more strip clubs per capita look good, it’s Portland, Oregon," says Voge.
As for WHY Oregon ranks second nationally in strip clubs per capita, Voge shrugs off the typical suggestions that it's because we like to stay inside out of the rain. "When you get down to the solid facts of why we are so fortunate to enjoy such variety and diversity in adult entertainment in the Beaver State, you can thank the Oregon Constitution," says Voge, "For the most part, Oregon voters have been relentlessly unwilling to weaken a constitution that provides one of the most liberal free-speech protections in the country."
Some geography nerds on the internet made a color coded map of strip club rates nationwide. Deep green are the states with the most strip clubs per capita, deep red are the states with the fewest.
I'm with Voge on the reasons why some states have more strip clubs than others. Local zoning laws and state definitions of obscenity are way more likely to decide the number of adult stores that open shop than predominant religion, political party or the number of rain clouds in the sky.
Jiggles is good, as is Vegas VIP in Beaverton. No booze at either, but probably the most consistent grindage in town.
As for bars, here are some of my favorites for laps:
Cabaret on W Burnside Exotica on NE Columbia Safari on SE Powell
All of three of these places have dancers that give air to grindy two-ways, so YMMV. At Cab, the dances are out in the open, so you can check them out before you choose.
I've read good things about Casa Diablo, but have never been.
Happy clubbing!