Years ago, I was passing through a club-heavy town and posted on the blue side of StripperWeb (hahaha) asking for guidance. A guy (who is also a TUSCL poster) emphatically recommended his favorite at a particular club. I was glad for the advice.
I rolled into that club and took a seat at the bar. On the stage was a slender young girl with red or light brown hair. The DJ announced her name at the end of her set, and it turned out to be the one who had been suggested to me. I locked eyes with her and she came over and 'wanna danced' me. Still fueled by the glowing recommendation, I accepted.
But as we walked over to wherever the dances took place, I began coming to my senses. First, this girl was out of her mind on some kind of drug. Her eyes were half closed, her words were slurred and she seemed to have difficulty speaking in complete sentences. She also had gnarly yellow/green teeth. Lastly, she had that dopesick look. Not sure how to explain it, but it's probably familiar to you - Skinny and boney, but fat at the same time. Like, no muscle in her body at all. Her complexion was pale and pasty. All of this was a no-go for me, so I told her I was changing my mind and promptly went back to the bar. Funny thing is, that guy later posted about how she ripped him off during his next visits and he dumped her as a favorite.
Back when TUSCL gave its members little photo galleries, Alucard (peace be upon him) posted pictures of some of his favorites. I don't remember them all, but one really stands out. Again, it was a young, skinny stripper with the same strung out, withering look. Bleh. Not my thing at all.
Finally, on a local subforum on a different board, there are a ton of posts from the regulars of a particular dancer, all singing her praises. Probably 75% of the posts in that subforum are about her. I never actually met her though. But recently someone posted her picture. Again with the washed up/dopesick look. To my eyes this girl is like a 4. But nonetheless she is super popular and has a ton of regulars.
Believe it or not, I guess I understand the appeal behind this type of dancer. I see so many posts on TUSCL and elsewhere from dudes talking about how their favorite dancer's lives are trainwrecks of substance abuse, legal problems and general chaos. Confusing at first, but remember that it's in a man's nature to want to rescue a damsel in distress. A lot of guys are attracted to that. They want to 'save' her. Besides that, maybe they really are sweet girls with their withering beauty offering good service at rock bottom prices. I know a lot of guys get off just from getting low prices almost as much as the sex acts themselves. Finally, as a 'darker' reason, I think these strung out girls are more desperate/easily manipulated, and that attracts certain personality types like moths to a flame.
So, it's not my thing at all, but I think I understand why a lot of dudes have this type of stripper for their favorite.