"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 “dateâ€
FEMALE COMPANIONS OF MEN • Seek to please companion • Seek education • Seek entertainment • Seek aesthetic pleasure • Seek excitement of “transgressiveâ€
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.
I go clubbing because it's fun to be with beautiful women who sexually arouse me. I also love my regular girls because it's more intimate and I especially love my ATF because it's all of the above plus she makes me laugh.
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last commentEye candy
Erotica
Seduction
Preselection and qualification.
Zen moment oneness with your abiliry to get the chick.
I look at that description of the pleasure-seeker and think, "What the hell is wrong with men who DON'T do this?"