Lap dancing started at MBOT, all front room, lap sitting, movie theater style seats.
How far this went varied widely. The largest variables would have been whether there was kissing or digital penetration. I think titty squeezing would have been universal.
The idea that it was to be grinding intended to cause LDK was the sort of thing which developed later. BJ came later, and the lights were kept low.
Jim and Artie did fire girls found to be engaging in FS. But we have had locally underground venues where front room FS was standard, Mexican bar underground.
When Diane Feinstein tried to get Jim and Artie incarcerated, a big part of their defense was that it was all front room, so it was not for 'sexual gratification' and hence prostitution, it was a kind of 'audience participation cabaret show' which served the public good of sexual education. Much of it was really just for shock value.
Jim Mitchell had been highly effected by an audience participation DATY show in Amsterdam. He wanted to do the same at MBOT.
It was after Diane Feinstein and the SF DA's Office suffered this horrible humiliation and mockery in the news papers, establishing that was not likely possible to convince a jury to see it their way, that other operators came in and built booths and backrooms in New Century and Market St. Cinema.
And then after Terrance Hallinan was elected DA and sent the message that he was not going to bother strip clubs or AMPs, but was going to crack down on the street, they started building even larger and fully private rooms.
These rooms often do not increase the mileage. Rather, they increase the house cut, and make it easier for the dancer to maintain total control, than it would be if she were just sitting on a guys lap, and maybe getting money metered out to her.
( so as always, better to engage with her front room, and save the back room until when and if it is time for your own pants to come down. And seeking ejaculation services is perverted, using you own money to exacerbate your own sexual frustration. )
SJG
