When and Where Did Lap Dancing Begin?

You should read this blog stripclubhound.blogspot.com, it's excellent! He talks about his experience as a stripclub manager, as well as his own experiences at SCs. Among other things, he talks about how it was going to SCs in the 80s, and what the lapdances were like then. I can't remember which post touched that subject, but all his posts are a great read so I suggest you read them all.

Thanks DeusAlea, I am well-acquainted with the Strip Club Hound! Yes, I agree, his writings (and guest writers) are fantastic! I have read the entire blog! (Maybe I should read it again.) He won't fess up as to which club he was the manager of, but, if you're familiar with L.A. strip clubs, I'm certain he was the manager of the Jet Strip. Several things he's mentioned would isolate that club as the one he managed.

That was interesting reading DeusAlea, thank you.

They were doing lap dances at Bachelors III in Kansas City, KS in 1987. Straight-backed cafe chairs along one wall. Had to keep your hands by your side, but if you were careful, and the girl was game, you could touch the outer thigh. The club moved to a new location in '88 or '89 where the lappers were done in booth like you would find in a diner. The girls wedged in between you and the table, and rubbed her goods on your lower belly, and what ever else happened to be sandwiched in there. Got my first HJ (inside the pant) there! By '88 or '89, there were several other clubs in KCK doing basically the same thing as B3.

Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco lays claim as the originator of the lap dance in the 70s. This wiki article doesn't say so, but I've read it in different places that I can't find in the minute I have.

en.wikipedia.org

First heard about laps in Detroit in the early 1980s, but I was not going to clubs back then. LE tried to stop laps, with limited success, in the mid '80s according to newspaper reports. At this time Windsor, Ontario, Canada--all nude--was strictly no contact table dancing. Contact laps in Detroit kept the dollars on the U.S side of the border. Windsor retaliated with legal escorts. All of this is legend.

In the early 1980's I hung out at a SC in downtown San Diego. In 1981, a "bed dance" was offered for 25.00 for 3 minutes. If your take home pay was 360.00 a month, 25 was a lot of money (I didn't partake). One night, a bunch of us watched (with gleeful anticipation) as a sailor went with a stunner to go in the private room for the bed dance (it was a private room-with a door). He was in there for 10-15 minutes, emerging with a dejected look. The girls at the club told us that no contact was allowed.

I distinctly remember getting lapdances, with little contact allowed, in the early 80s, but I don't think I could remember where. Aside from Western NY, that is.

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Clubs used to pay dancers to perform on stage, and they danced either topless or nude but not on customer laps. You could tip the girls on stage and sometimes the girls would drink with you at your table. I think it was in the 1980's that I first saw dancers come off the stage and dance at the customers' tables. In Canada in the 80's I got table dances from nude dancers (no contact allowed), and you paid the girls directly for these dances. Then in the US, lap dances started at the customers' tables, where the girls were topless and sat in your lap. You could not touch them with your hands. The club owners figured out that they could get away without paying the dancers, and the dancers found they could make more money from tips than from wages. Sometime in the 1990's I first encountered "Champagne Rooms" or "VIP Rooms", which offered more privacy and more contact. Later clubs added private booths or rooms, and then the era of extras began.

I don't know where the first lap dances occurred, but I don't think I had one before the late 1980's.

The earliest I recall having experienced a lap dance in Ohio was 1992 or 1993, in Cleveland. I recall reading about them in as early as 1986 in Tampa Florida. The first I heard about them in Ohio was around 1988, again in Cleveland.

Like Club_Goer, I grew up in So. Cal. and experienced the same topless bar maids that he did, etc. Of course we did go to TJ back in the 60's, which was a totally different game. My first recolection of a lap dance was at Danny's in Memphis TN around 1990. They were done on wooden charis out in the open and I couldn't believe that touching was allowed.

They were giving table dances in Memphis back in the late 70's. I can't remember if they were bikini or topless.

Sorry guys. History buffs have uncovered ample evidence, from preserved bodies positioned in familiar poses in excavated peat bogs, that lap dances originated over 400 years ago in northern Europe. The explanation is that long winters in northern latitudes led to promiscuity, drunkenness, and broad experimentation in sexual activities. The consensus theory is that lap dances were invented in Finland around 1625. To this day, the people there are known as "Laplanders".

Most people credeit the invention of Lap Dances in clubs to Mitchell Brothers O'Farrel Theatre. en.wikipedia.org

My first experience- Mons Venus, Tampa, 1990. It had probably been going on for a few years there already. I've "heard" that LD's as we've known them 1st happened in Houston in early 80's.

Nice one, harrydave. Lengthy set-up, but good payoff.

"I have heard it said that modern day lap dancing in strip clubs was a Canadian invention."

Canadian invention? You were grossly misinformed. Sheesh!

Agree with looney, but still an interesting topic. I recall the earliest in the late 80's, or perhaps early 90's.

First LDs I ever experienced were in Memphis 1982. All the clubs near the airport seemed to offer them, pretty high mileage too.

First Lap Dance Ever.... bmoviegraveyard.com

My first lap dance experience was probably the one I had at Mons Venus back in the late 1990s. Haven't really had one as good as that since I've lived in Cbus!

I have to side with the group that is leaning towards the early 1980's rather than those that are saying late 80's/early 90's.

I remember going to the Peek-a-boo Lounge in Bradenton, Florida in 1980/1981. Perhaps not a lap dance per se, but for five bucks the dancer would stand up in your booth and put her boobs in your face and you were allowed to cup her ass.

But I really cut my teeth on strip clubs in Indianapolis in the early to mid 80's. Most of the clubs offered private table dances, but they were no contact, all air. Still, they were exciting for the day.

My first real friction lap dances were in Michigan in the late 80's and my first "touch" dances were also at the Mons Venus in the late 90's.

The clubs in Biloxi, MS were pretty wide open back in the 70's. I don't remember getting lap dances, but I do remember having dancers sitting in my lap and offering extras. One club had a marquee sign for years that announced a featured dancer named Ophelia Twat.

I had no clue about lap dances and all the rest until April, 2010.

My first was in fall 1982 at "Trader Vic's" or "Tom's"? in Gainesville, Florida. When dancer asked if I wanted one, I asked what it was. She replied "A dry f*ck." I think it was $10, then A LOT of money for me. I likely got only one (out in the open in an non-comfy wooden chair). I did return many months later and she remembered me.

Bc I was much younger then w/similar age gfs, I don't think I had my next one until ~1995!

I did my first set of lap dances in the mid 1990's, soon after my divorce. Tampa, Florida, believe it or not it was not Mons Venus I used to frequent, but two other places: The Tanga Lounge over on the Causeway, and a place called Sweethearts in Clearwater, since sold and renamed Personality's.

They were real lap dances back then, lots of grinding, plenty of happy endings, and all in all, very much like modern day dances in the more liberal places.

Since then, things have only gotten better across the nation.

I was born n the 80s damn son ! The first ld was when my fat asss walked n lol !