Do Strip Clubs Make You Sick (literally) ?
Club_Goer_Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 5:22 PM
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 ?
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