Do you ever get embarrassed to be associated as a "strip club patron" after looking around a club and seeing some of the creeps, pedos, and weirdos that tend to frequent strip clubs?
Nah. I have been in much sketchier places during my career, particularly when I was working offshore. The stuff you see in south-east Asia, the middle east, or waterfront sailors' bars in Europe makes the dumpiest North American SC seem like an establishment of genteel high culture.
I am single, dress well and can speak in complete sentences. I may be a PL, but I'm not a creep. I tend not to look at too many other patrons unless they are getting a LD from a hot dancer I may be considering. So unless I run into someone in the restroom, see them at the bar or they just stick out like a sore thumb, I have other more important things for my eyes to look at in the club.
I like to people watch at strip clubs - popped collar bro's, fake ganstas, real ganstas, the cheaters, business men, truck drivers, immigrants, the mixed gender party, and the socially inept. And the percentages of each all depend on the club. I'm a sex addict, so I belong here. But I'm new so I also see myself as an observer.
Do see the creeps from time to time but only if they stick out and draw attention to themselves. My eyes are normally on the hotties, whether dancer, bartender, waitress, or shot girl. Sometimes on the game.
Just cause there's some creeps they're the minority. Has nothing to do with me.
Only once. At a military reunion, a onetime military acquaintance outed me as a frequent club goer to guys that served under me-who had thought of me as a bastion of power, virtue, and morality.
I mostly avoid paying attention to the other people in a club. The only people who really bother me at a club are the obnoxiously drunk. Back when I drank alcohol, I'd get drunk, but one of my faves always said I was a witty drunk, whereas some of the other drunks were obnoxious drunks who could cause real problems. There were other types of drunks as well, but I don't remember exactly what they were. But the thing about that is that could happen at any bar.
I must admit that I have MAJOR reservations visiting a club with a certain fellow TUSCL member. He shall remain anonymous, but his initials are vincemichaels. :) :) :)
Seriously, I really pay little attention to other customers, unless I happen catch sight of a female customer.
I have run into professional colleagues, former high school teachers and at least one ordained clergy, in mufti, in clubs. I give and expect a zone of privacy. If we see each other, a nod or drink signals respect. Then we agree to avoid the creeps.
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Just cause there's some creeps they're the minority. Has nothing to do with me.
I don't go to reunions anymore.
Seriously, I really pay little attention to other customers, unless I happen catch sight of a female customer.
Her: "They're some real weirdoes in here today."
Me: "In a strip club? Imagine that."
My current fav and I had a good laugh about that.