Do Strip Clubs Make You Sick (literally) ?
Club_Goer_Seattle
Seattle, Washington
As I'm nursing a cold right now, I thought to myself that I haven't had a cold in a few years. I quickly associated that time frame with when I greatly reduced my club-going. Until about mid-2008, I was going to clubs two or three times a week. Some weeks more. Now I only go two or three times a month. In my very active period of clubbing, I got a cold about three times a year for about a two-year period. I was discussing my frequency of colds with a dancer one day. She reminded me (back then) that I go to strip clubs a lot. Further she explained that dancers and others that work in strip clubs also get a lot of colds. That's because of how freely contagious coughs and colds are transferred to one another. Some factors: Dancers and customers are very affectionate with each other in strip clubs, so there's a lot of bodily contact. Dancers touch a lot of surfaces where cold germs can easily be transferred to them and hence, on to the next customer: The pole on stage (nearly every dancer in a club will touch that during the day), all the cash they're handling throughout their shift, numerous other surfaces throughout the club and the dressing room, etc.
Maybe strip clubs aren't really any more vulnerable to catching colds in than any other workplace or public place, but I can certainly see a relationship in my case: The less I'm in strip clubs, the less I catch a cold. What's been your experience ?
Maybe strip clubs aren't really any more vulnerable to catching colds in than any other workplace or public place, but I can certainly see a relationship in my case: The less I'm in strip clubs, the less I catch a cold. What's been your experience ?
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I do exercise a bit of observational skills though. For example, a couple weeks ago this real hottie asked me to get dances with her. Well, I'd just observed her coughing up a lung and prior to that sneezing several times. mmm sexy, I passed.
BTW, I take lots of extra caution with touching things. Hand sanitizer, hand washing, never touch door knobs with my bare hands, don't eat or drink after anyone.
Sick people go to church and want to shake everyone's hands where I live it. Idiots. Unless they are really sadastic and want others to die and get sick as well. With over 20,000 people dying from the flu each year, you think people in church would be nice by not shaking your hand if they are sick. I think it's more likely they are idiots than sadistic.
Now when it comes to a dancer, there's no telling how many people sucked on that dancer's nipple you're about to suck on. There are often bathroom trolls deterring the guys from washing off their hands. Not too many guys want to wash their hands and pay to do so. I want to wash my hands in spite of feeling like I need to tip the bathroom troll. Most guys do not. On the plus side, most guys if they are really sick in my opinion, stay home and don't go out clubbing. Sick people do go to church though.
I remember one sick guy was in church shaking hands one weekend. My relative and an old person's wife shook the guy's hands. I gave him a peace sign. My relative got sick. I did not. The older person died within days of shaking the sick person's hands. I think he killed her via his germs.
Of course I try to wash my hands often. Door knobs, gas station pump handles, anything that lots of sick people touch are possible routes to infection if you don't wash your hands afterwards before touching your nose, mouth or other methods of getting infected.
Probably the stripclub, though, since I'm not macking on my co-workers or the dweebs at the gym.
I don't get a yearly cold like a once did. But the few I've had did seem to occur right after a night with a sick dancer. Just this past weekend, my ATF warned me before we started DFK that she was sick. I said don't worry. But I did wake up with a sore throat the next day. Coincidence ?
Might be worth a try - it certainly can't hurt to keep down those pesky communicable germs.