Generational differences among strippers?
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New Jersey, near the Shore
By most definitions, the first Generation-Z strippers will hit the clubs no later than 2020, and possibly sooner. I wonder what they will be like. (I mean, aside from the obvious: very young at first.) Most strippers are currently members of the Millennial Generation, aka Generation-Y. Researchers can't seem to agree on precise beginning and ending dates, but the consensus says that the Millennial generation began at some point between 1979 and 1984, and ended at some point between 1999 and 2001. For those who've been clubbing for decades, do you notice a difference in attitudes between strippers from different generations? Baby Boomers, Gen-X, Millennials, etc. I'm either a very young Gen-Xer or a very old Millennial. Either way, I haven't been clubbing long enough to notice real changes. There were still some younger Boomers working at the clubs when I first started, but I can barely remember them now. Do you think the next generation will have a different attitude toward extras, fraternizing OTC, etc? Social media and wearable technology will be second nature for them. They will all have been born long after the AIDs crisis began. They will have never seen a time when the United States wasn't at war. Most will have grown up against the backdrop of the Financial Crisis, the Great Recession, and so on. Do you think this will make them more eager to earn, just like the Great Depression once allegedly made an earlier generation more frugal? Millennials are supposed to be more entrepreneurial and sex-positive than earlier generations. Maybe this trend will continue into Gen-Z, and that will mean more and more girls will choose sex work in the next generation. Any thoughts or predictions?
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I think we will see more strippers w hairy arm pits, and trannies, but also a lot more girls who do it bc they like it, and have a good attitude, and don't have the usual excuses and desperation. So maybe more of the smart sexy girls who have the inkling will opt for it, even if they don't "have" to.
What we'll be seeing soon is a transition away from boomer customers to Gen-X customers. Maybe that's another thing crimping the number of clubs. The population base of middle aged men willing to pay for play becomes lower and that supports fewer establishments.
When I talk with mid 20s strippers about how they got into it, I am surprised a little at how easily they shrugged aside doubts and plunged in. I remember in college in the late 1980s how it seemed such a taboo thing for one of my buddy's girlfriends to be invited by another girl to consider working at *gasp* Hooters!
The price of cat food has been going up, at least for the good kind like Nature's Variety Instinct, which cuts into fun money.
BBC/AMC has a drama series called "Humans" that's set in the near future where AI-driven anthropomorphic robots are prevalent as a servant/slave class. It deals with that specific topic as well as many others (i.e. automation in the workplace, etc.).
It's actually pretty good. And the "lead android" is a smoking hot Asian woman.
I think the younger Millenials and the following generation will continue to learn how to profit from their bodies more so than previous generations. If you spend any time on Instagram or Snapchat you will notice that many girls have a "free" Instagram or Snapchat account and use those to sell subscriptions to their "premium" pages where they show more. These services allow women to hide their lives from family and friends (as opposed to Facebook) and make money from men.
How will this affect strip clubs? I think clubs will always be around because men want to look and to touch and women who aren't opposed to letting strangers touch them will be there for the money. Then again, a lot of girls selling social media subscriptions and begging for gifts from Amazon are able to bank loot without doing a whole lot and if that model works, more girls are going to gravitate to it.
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I was born in late 1981, so by most definitions I'm a Millennial, but I definitely *feel* more like a Gen-Xer. (This, in and of itself, may actually be the best proof that I'm really a Millennial, after all: only a true Millennial would believe that his *feelings* matter more than objective reality LOL.)
I also get along best with dancers who are no more than 10 years younger than I am (although I'm not sure if that's a generational thing.) And I completely agree with your assessment of the industry and its future prospects.
Enough of the definitions in the Wikipedia article include 1981 that I think you've got a pretty strong claim on Gen X -
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"I think they call us "x-ennials," or something like that, "
No, we call you jackasses.
Amen brother. Shit is fucking surreal.
I'm sure that impresses the girls you fantasize about having sex for free with. Or does your inane ramblings about libertarianism and the bolshevik revolution do the trick?
Free advice: Just be who you are instead of trying to impress a bunch of anonymous perverts. On second thought, that probably wouldn't be very successful in your case.
There's a huge cliff hanger at the end of season 2. I'm looking forward to season 3.
The teens in my life are fine w my job and ask if I like it, and about safety stuff, but they both think breastaunts are pathetic somehow. Maybe it's the facade they don't like.
Extras demand may change dramatically too.
As long as there are still baby boomers out there - I think there will still be old school type clubs. But there will be changes made as some clubs start to change.