ON TOPIC: What kind of PL are you?

"Exotic Dance Patrons
Dimensions of sexuality: psychology, culture, society, politics, and economics

LONELY OR UNHAPPY MEN • Seek “understanding,” nonjudgmental and emotionally supportive listener • Seek attention from attractive woman desired as a spouse or lover or as spouse once was • Seek refuge from real female involvement and pressure to perform sex • Escape workplace political correctness about sexual harassment • Hang out • Escape work stress • Avoid rejection and fantasize being liked and desired • Seek excitement to perform marital sex role • Recapture in imagination what's no longer in one's marriage

HOSTILE MEN (asked to leave club) • Insult women verbally • Grope women • Hurl objects

BACHELOR PARTY GROUP • Celebrate • Arouse and educate groom for new bride

PLEASURE-SEEKING MEN (youth, workers, businessmen, and professionals) • Seek entertainment • Engage in adult play • Seek aesthetic satisfaction (beauty of body and dance) • Seek variety • Seek excitement and adventure of “transgressive” and “foreign” • Seek opportunity to relax • Seek pressure-free female presence • Observe what wife or girlfriend does not provide • Fantasize and create own sexual script (safe sex) • Have sensory experience • Satisfy curiosity about the female body • Support women's sexual liberation and empowerment • Seek assignation • Have safe sex (fantasy)

MACHO MEN • Seek male identity, bonding, and dominance through fantasy of phallic man • Display social privilege by spending money ostentatiously • Perform by spending money and dancing with entertainer • Feel superior to women by being clothed • Feel dominant by paying but without having to perform and risk failure • Control of women by offering payment for dances

VICTIMIZED MEN • Pay for being teased with an unrequited “date”

FEMALE COMPANIONS OF MEN • Seek to please companion • Seek education • Seek entertainment • Seek aesthetic pleasure • Seek excitement of “transgressive”

BACHELORETTE PARTY GROUP AND YOUNG WOMEN • Seek entertainment • Arouse and educate bride for new groom • Seek ideas to arouse lover or spouse • Satisfy curiosity about the female body

LESBIANS • Seek attention from attractive women • Hang out • Seek entertainment • Seek aesthetic pleasure • Seek assignation

From: Hanna, Judith Lynne (2012-05-01). Naked Truth, University of Texas Press."

Have fun categorizing, commenting, and criticizing. Not all characteristics in a category need to be present to categorize any one patron.