Have strip club standards changed a lot over the last 25 years?

A similar topic was discussed recently:

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Seems location has a lot to do with it - seems there are certain areas that in the 70s/80s were the wild wild west and are now more tame or a former shadow of themselves.

Also - overall it seems more and more cities are going after the clubs and trying to shut them down - whether this is based on "moral grounds" or more likely financial forces like gentrification.

Overall it does seem there is more-mileage extras available today than 20-years ago - but it seems it may be in just certain big metro areas.

Even Houston seemed to be much more wild pre-2013 b/f there was a lady-mayor in office which went to war with Treasures in particular but the whole SC scene within the city-limits of Houston seemed to suffer and it does not appear that it's quite back to its former glory (or maybe it is).

Papi,

As you said about, "...certain areas that in the 70s/80s were the wild wild west..." is true, but back then they were much as clubs are today. Overall, in my experience, the wild west clubs have become the norm, rather than the exception.

When I was in LA in the 1990s, the dancers at many clubs put on legit stage shows. I'm thinking of The Body Shop (Sunset Boulevard) in particular. Then there was the now long-gone Hollywood Tropicana and its mud and oil wrestling shows. It seems like there was more effort put into actual entertainment and spectacle. Obviously, not all the clubs were like that.

(Aside... I saw Pauly Shore get punched in the face at Hollywood Tropicana. I was okay with that.)

The availability of extras has increased along with contact during dances. Especially here in Rhode Island what with our years long experiment with unintentionally legal prostitution (long gone now). But, I suspect that's true overall except in the more regulatory and puritanical locations.

Interesting ...

Thanks for the feedback.

Perhaps my impression that the strip club scene has become far more permissive reflects that I have largely confined myself to one major metro area and within that market that I have mostly frequented the particularly permissive clubs where extras are the norm.

Lucky me (I guess).

Well, if you're a frequent, long-term customer spending more time and money in permissive clubs, then it follows that you're far from the only one voting with your wallet, so to speak.

And if club owners, managers, and dancers see more money flowing through extras-friendly clubs, then that's the trend to follow to maximize profit via the path of least resistance.

So, to quote Jesse Pinkman... "Economics, bitch."

I’ve been around long enough to see things ratchet up a notch on the ratchety scale. On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being rare I have seen local clubs go from 1-2(low ratchets) 20 years ago escalate to 3-4(higher ratio of ratchety dancers) currently, with an occasional 5 thrown in there on 1 or 2 visits annually.

Sadly I can't contribute anything to the topic since I haven't been SCing for that long.

I just wanted to say that it's cool to see you post in the discussion area. I always enjoy reading your reviews and wondered what your input would be like on this side if you ever posted here.

Hah!

I never even noticed this feature until now.

Guess I’ve just been too busy getting desplooginated at strip clubs.

Things are way more strict. Clubs without VIP, No Touching, No Booze, etc. Most clubs are turning into sports bars with hot waitresses.

While I can't speak to 25 years, the last 15 have made things much worse in my home area of Cincinnati. All of the clubs in southwest Ohio have closed along with 3/4s of the clubs in northern Kentucky. The clubs that are left in northern Kentucky are now bikini clubs that aren't worth visiting most of the times.

Most of the rest of Ohio's clubs have also gone downhill thanks to our state legislature passing numerous restrictions.

we need freedom!