Is tipping for lap dances really the same as tipping a waitress?
ButterMan
Indianapolis
I bring this topic up because at one of regular clubs some girls have started charging $25 instead of the normal $20 because they say some guys don't tip for their private dances. First off I will never pay $25 for a dance here after its been $20 for the last 15 years. It adds to confusion because get back there and expect its 20 and are informed its 25 and it's not every girl just a growing number. But here is my question. And first off the girls are saying that they are just like waitress's so why not tip them. And i sometimes do tip for dances if the dance was good. So i'm not opossed to tiping a dancer. But when you go into a restaurant and order food your paying the restaurant not the waitress. So of course you should tip your waitress. As you should tip your SC waitress, pizza delivery guy...etc. But in my mind you can't compare a dancer to a waitress because your paying her directly. And yes i know that sometimes they have to tip the house, DJ etc I get that. I would never not tip a waitress or bartender for example. But Just don't think this is good business at this club. Girls charging different prices is not good and for the folks that arent JS69 there is a difference between 20 and 25.
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Tipping is a different animal. From what I understand, most strippers are independent contractors, running their own business, renting space/time from the SC. For that privilege they pay a fee. They tip-out whoever else they have agreed to tip-out (Im assuming) as part of their agreement with the SC. A customer tipping is an expression of gratitude. It can also be relative to the value of services received. Typically, business owners do not receive tips (think the owner of a hair salon cutting your hair).
My advice, tell these upsellers to get the fuck out of your face.
AFAIK in most clubs there is a standard dance-price set by the club - if a dancer tells me after the fact she charges more I won't pay the difference, and if she tells me beforehand she charges more than the std dance price, I won't get dances with her.
As to raising dance prices you can counter that by not patronizing them and if enough feel the same they will be forced to reverse that decision.
I have to admit, in theory there's something to the argument: you basically tip everyone who provides you a service who is not a highly paid salaried employee: you tip your waitress, you tip your CMT, you tip your maid. You *don't* tip your dentist or accountant, even though they provide you a service, also, because they are highly paid salaried employees. On the other hand, strippers are incredibly highly paid employees, too -- at the club I go to, the charge for an hour is quite a bit more than what my lawyer charges for his service (in fact quite a bit more, depending on whether you add it up as multiple VIP rooms or one champagne room). Moreover, that's just the way things have evolved: no customarily-required tips in the sex industry, it's part of the deal right from the beginning.
For myself, I draw a pretty hard line and almost never cross it: I tip for **extraordinary** service. Anything less, no tip. If she asks for a tip, the answer is no, period. If lap dances cost only $5 or $10,
--- how much do you consider highly paid? The avg household income in most states is 50-70K.
I would say the only way they can justify charging as high is if they are handling nukes and hazardous bio-chemical waste.
Yep. In this area, girls started to do that, and we (customers) managed to push prices back down after a months-long war of attrition. We did have an advantage though: there was a very popular local forum, so while the girls conspired to raise prices all together in the lockerroom, we customers we able to unify on the forum. It's quite a bit harder without that as an advantage .... if you're just a random customer at this strip club, you might just assume it's a price increase that everyone else is paying and just go along, the power of organizing is definitely a big advantage.
That's the point I was making too -- if considered on an hourly basis, the girls hourly rate is higher than my highly-regarded lawyer's. Yes, easy to say they've passed the threshold.
Regardless of that, though, the thing that have to realize: whether for good or bad, the tip ethic in the sex business -- not just strip clubs, everywhere -- is that there's no imperative to tip, like there is for waitresses and maids. No, she's not entitled to a tip if she provides merely average service, the way a waitress or bellboy would be.
Well, "bunch of strippers flapping their traps and making agreements in the locker room" is hardly a union, I'm not making any big political metaphors here :) Just that organizing and supporting each other that way, plus the ability to exchange information on what's working and what's not, is a big advantage; I felt it was a huge advantage that the forum (when it existed) got so many eyeballs from regulars and not-so-regulars of the SC in question, we all held fast, at least publicly, exchanged info privately on who was giving us good deals, and waaaaay down the line, the maverick strippers dropped their prices back down (at least for club regulars; out of towners still got quoted crazy prices)
WIKI > When something has been done ex gratia, it has been done voluntarily, out of kindness or grace.
If the going wage is not satisfactory strippers can switch to waitressing in the same club. I am sure it's a less skilled job.
You're expecting these human beings to provide you with a virtual sex experience, wanna cum in ur pants and ur complaining over a $10 tip?! God,
Who raised you?
And maybe all of these strippers should join a union...because then they could go on strike and it would finally dawn on you jerks that NO ONE wants to f-ck, let alone date ur cheap asses and that maybe a $10 tip isn't that bad after all.
Ugh. Men are oblivious.
Sex workers are always in demand- because of the likes of you. Non-paid females wouldn't dare touch you.
and non-paid females (that i like) wouldn't dare touch my old ass.
Anyway, to repeat again: unlike many service jobs, there is and has never been an expectation/entitlement of tipping in the sex industry... not anywhere, not escorts, not bodyrubs, not stripping. It's okay to not like it, but the reality is, not tipping a stripper who provides average service, is NOTHING like not tipping a waitress who provides average service.
@bj99 stated "Most dancers I know who charge more do it bc they don't make any money, so they are trying to make up for it"
Does this work? I would imagine that it would be harder and take longer to convince PLs to get dances at a premium than to just do a couple more at the regular rate.
She's been grabbed, assaulted (in more ways than one), violated...all NOT part of the deal.
These things are very much tolerated and swept under the rug by management and deemed tolerable under the false lighting the club provides for all inside.
I read about men trying to cum in their pants, get blowjobs, f-cked, etc and call these women derogatory names. But who are the idiots who keep returning to these "b-tches" and dropping money (albeit, very tightly).
Perhaps my view is from a cliche version of a significant other, watching her get her doctorate while having to disassociate and put on a persona so she doesn't take in psychological harm. But hey...who cares if she's degraded, demeaned, assaulted, all so she doesn't have to incur over $55K of student debt and no job when she gets out (she'll have to intern to get her hours).
Men. Go figure. Wish all the guys would put their dating status next to their comment. It would speak volumes.
It's accepted and tolerated in this culture, but can you imagine a guy getting his junk grabbed by a fat woman who he didn't find attractive? Gawked at by an ugly woman? Propositioned by an old woman he would never even look at?
But hey, it's okay.
No, it's not. It's disgusting.
Inside the strip club is obviously different, so just skip the line at Carl's Jr. and save the $5 from your huge cheeseburger that you stuff in ur gut and tip the woman who you grab, grope, and put ur sweaty hands on.
1. Is this Calichixk character a man-hating stripper or a stripper's man-hating girlfriend?
2. Is the stripper that she refers to (whether it be her or her GF) being held captive and forced to work at a strip club?
I think that dancers appreciate having part of the club take covered and I think that marks me as a guy that they want to dance for.
I have never gotten a dance that was so bad that I wouldn't leave a tip (although I wouldn't hesitate to do that if I did). I have gotten a few that I considered to be substandard, and in those cases it was one and done forever.
I'm pretty sure it's juice, but for this character he's lowered the cognitive capacity and is bringing up all kinds of topics that have nothing to do with whether strippers should pre-charge tips or not. It takes brilliance to create such a dim character :)
Like I said earlier you are an idiot and a poseur GTFOH.
Except it is part of the job description and quite frankly, $20 for 3 or 4 minutes is good money. So its not like they arent being conpensated. Lots of people hate their jobs but do it anyway for much less than stripper rates.
I'd rather tip the food attendant
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Giving money to dances is good, but buying dances is a chump's game. Wrong choreography.
SJG
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LOL!
What city do you dance in?
It's fine if you rather keep your anonymity.
You may be on to something. Thats definitely true more often than not. If they feel they have to raise their prices because they arent getting enough tips, maybe they arent doing enough to warrant tips. Granted not everyone will tip for lapdances, as evidenced in this thread. But still enough guys should tip if the dancer is putting in effort. Do strippers expect everyone to tip for lapdances?
I enjoy developing the comfort and familiarity of favorites. Tipping modestly is usually appreciated and remembered which I have found helps in receiving favorable future treatment.
I got hit with a an up-front tip demand this past week. She wanted an extra $10 per dance because she was pretty convinced that she was God's gift to us poor PLs, and the hottest thing on heels. I told her I'd get a few dances from some of the more ordinary girls first so I'd have a frame of reference if I ever decided to get a dance from her. I'm not sure she understood that she'd been shut down, because she kept coming back.
The biggest obstacle with tipping is not having appropriate bills so I usually tip based on convenience.
I feel cheap.
Mostly, I'll get tipped 5, for one, or 20 for four. 40 for three dances isn't that common, but it's not uncommon either. That's why it's very generous.
So for a generous customer, you consider the number of dances as well as the tip? Is there much of a difference between a guy who buys 4 dances and give a hundred vs. a guy who buys 3 and gives a hundred?
For me, It's important that a customer be consistent w the number of dances they get, or how much I can expect from them. It helps me to prioritize my time, especially with customers who like to talk for awhile, or make apts. most of my customers spend 100-200 per visit. This ammt gives them the priority they all seem to want. If a guy spends under 100, and requires a lot of talking before, then I will let another girl he likes have him if I'm busy. I only have three customers like that, bc they don't get mad at me for the days I don't get to them. I have plenty of under 100 customers who are fine w just getting their dances, and don't expect me to sit long, so I keep them, and I do not expect a tip at all.