Unlike some TUSCLers here, i just don't have the time, opportunity, money, energy or desire or some combination thereof to travel the country (or world even) in search of strip clubs and the like. So its mostly local or relatively local for me, which means about 2 hours one way maximum, ideally well less than an hour, although i might stretch it out a bit further if i felt it was worthwhile. I know that Chicago is considered a wasteland (for customers at least; the girls seem to make or potentially make good money), but that's my reality. Detroit and East St. Louis, just too far. Ditto Indianapolis and rural Indiana . Wisconsin is largely just not worth it i hear in terms of quality or mileage.
Over the last few years, several strip clubs in the area have either closed down, changed ownership/management or just made strange/bad decisions that have turned off both dancers and customers often at the same club. So i go to those clubs less if at all now. And there are still the clubs that i would almost never visit to begin with or the ones that i would rarely go to. That doesn't change. But i still find myself spending about the same time and money if not more so. I just spend it at the remaining clubs that haven't gone in that direction. And because it's mostly spent in the clubs i prefer, i tend to have more satisfactory albeit expensive visits.
And yet i'm a bit saddened by the lack of options. There's a part that wishes that the estranged girls that left the other clubs never to be seen by me again, somehow all end up in the clubs i still go to. But that's rarely the case and even if they did it would change the way i operate during my visits. Sometimes too many familiar faces/favorites in one club isn't a good thing not to mention the whole familiarity breeds contempt sort of deal. A change of scenery or break could be a good thing. Nor do i want to be too much of a regular face at one club. It's one thing to be familiar with the staff, but another thing to be rather chummy with them or even other regular customers.
So how is it for you? If you live in an area with a wealth of strip clubs (probably Texas, Florida, Arizona, California, Nevada, New York, Portland maybe, etc.), in this day and age, you've surely noticed clubs going downhill or closing altogether. Do you just go less and save money and time to do other things (like i don't know, but surely there are other things to do) or visit the same few more often?
@theDirkDiggler I am in Portland and yes there has been a slow decline of the number of clubs over the years. But the difference with Portland is that it has a high number of small sized clubs and so losing a few over time isn't that big of a hit to the overall scene. And there is a bigger per capita population of dancers here in this area and so the market is a little buffered from change due to the overall economy. Portland doesn't have the big huge corporate style and glitzy gentleman's clubs like those other cities that you mentioned. Within a 2 hour radius at this moment, I can go to at least 20 clubs and I'm being safe with that number. So then what is the issue if one or two clubs close? I still have 18 clubs left and yes in Portland you do see the same dancers jumping back and forth between clubs.
But to your point yes, business is slower in most Portland clubs. I have seen this over the last four years for sure. But LOL that is a perfect situation for me. I am the type of PL that will stick with an ATF as long as our schedules line up and right now in this downturn I have an ATF ATF that works at a club that is on my way home from work and she also is on shift when I get off work. So I am soooooo good right now in terms of my mongering.