- Mileage, mileage, mileage! (no explanation necessary or is there?)
- GFE/connection - usually involves a familiarity, comfort or affectionate "friendliness" but not "friendzone". Basically a lot of things you might do or have with a girlfriend but in a lap dance.
- Sexiness/sensuality - is kind of similar to GFE/connection except many a girlfriend or SO may be neither very sexy or sensual. This might also involve her pleasure, faked or otherwise.
- LDK - happy endings without extras for those that want them.
- Visuals - enjoying the sight of a beautiful naked woman and all of her physical charms on your lap and includes looks and appearances.
- Fantasy/role play - often involves more specific acts or personal kinks and includes lap dance positions.
- Dirty talk and other conversation - more like the aural (or oral, npi) versions of visuals and also includes moaning and friendly banter.
- Other - like i'm not sure where personality/attitude would fit, maybe 2 or 3 or even 6, or if it even needs its own category. This would include anything else.
- I don't do/understand lap dances - for the non chump, or the give me extras or OTC or give me nothing crowd (if that is a thing).
There is definitely a lot of overlap between categories. For instance, DFK or even LFK (as rare as it is outside of San Jose, apparently) would fall in the mileage category first, but depending on the quality of it, could also fall in the GFE/connection and sexiness/sensuality categories. It could even fall a bit into the fantasy/role play and for some of the quick triggers, it might even abet in causing LDK. Also some categories (like visuals) could even be like prerequisites for the more important categories to you.
I guess i should probably limit this to VHM dances and below, because once extras get involved (UHM+), mileage becomes an entirely different animal and tends to dominate the "dance" (where it might not even really be a dance anymore), usually becoming the obvious reason for having them.
If there are any other categories that you felt i likely missed, please feel free to add them.


For me, for a first time, the two most important things that NEED to happen is that I have to be able to touch breasts and I have to pay at the end.