Why have strip clubs slowed down so much since the 90s?
Bandit5160
South Carolina
When I first started going to SCs back in the 90s, it was a lot busier, especially weekends. There were more girls stripping too. It seems like that was sort of a golden age. Now some SCs are really struggling. Are they just not cook anymore or something. I don't think customer income has much to do with it; I make a lot mote money now than I ever did then!
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Customers demand more mileage for their cash than in the past, and less girls are willing to settle for that.
Cam girls, backpage, Craigslist
The Great Recession killed expense accounts and the big spenders and it's never came back
And personally, I think the girls are a lot less hotter. As one that doesn't care for tattoos and piercings, I sometimes find the pickings a bit tough
And to some extent, nickfree may have a point. The link between strip clubs and hip hop culture has strengthened and a lot of the clubs are full of ghetto hoes. For every Floyd Mayweather or Rick Ross that may occasionally drop $40,000 in a club, there's 10,000 guys who used to spend $1000 a night in a club who have given up and have just found an OTC girl
That's scary! That was my first thought. :)
Plus governments passed all kinds of new rules and restrictions on clubs. Entertainment is available online as well now but it wasn't freely available in the 90's like it is now. Dancers can also pick and choose the best clubs by looking online and several years ago, you had trouble finding a dancer who even used a computer or smart phone. Now if the dancer is smart and pretty, she can choose to leave the hell hole city she may have grown up at and move to where she believes she will make a lot more money for a lot less effort.
The market crash of 2001 and the economic crash of 2008 def put a damper on conspicuous spending for many.
And as others have said; the Internet has disrupted many an industry; cam-sites; web escort sites; sugar-baby sites; etc; probably take their chunk (custies and talent) from the SC biz.
Also, the internet offers faster and sometimes cheaper entertainment.
For example, I can watch some hot girls from the comfort of my home on this site.
All you have to do is click on the girls online link. Whammo! No cover, no annoying DJ,
no asshole manager, no asshole drunk customers. You get the idea.
I sometimes wonder why I bother with the club when I can sit at home, find whatever kind of porn I want on the Internet, handle my own business and roll over to go to sleep, with the only cost being whatever I paid for my laptop and ISP. And sometimes, when I'm feeling lazy, that's what I do.
Ten years ago was when home broadband started to take hold and online video became easy enough to get. So the already small portion of the population that saw the club as something it wanted to experience more often than the occasional bachelor party shrunk even more.
Now yes, that does mean extras culture has improved in some places. But not everywhere. Whether or not it will get better is hard to say. On the one hand, the general trend is towards more permissiveness. On the other hand, there will always be moralists out there and strip clubs are the easiest targets for them, so they might see their regulation as one of the (few) battles they can win.
I also think customer culture is changing. Between porn and Tinder, young folks aren't as desperate for it as they used to be, not to mention, most young folks don't have money.
If this effect applies to enough people, the next recession in the economy and in strip clubs could start.
I will add there's evidence people are just leaving the house less in general these days. Why bother? You can text and facebook all your friends without getting showered and dressed. My TV is giant and I'm so far behind on high quality television I'll never get caught up.
I couldn’t find anything pre-2010 about anything. I’m sure if there was, Davids/RomanticLover would have swooped in to remind the site about it 👍
Regardless, the other PLs on this site could learn that from us. ROAR!!!
In most areas, one-on-one table or lap dances have only been available for about 30 years. So, when we compare with 15 to 20 years ago, we're comparing with when it was still something of a novelty. It no longer is.
The decline of the "good girl / bad girl" mindset makes it harder to be a "heavy user" of lap dances. For most sex workers, sex work is a Faustian bargain at least to some degree. You see that if you spend a lot of time with them, and you're not othering them in some way. Which makes the activity bittersweet at best.