On the rag. How do you know?

Use the taste test!

Once, I was in a club. A new dancer was there. We were told it was her 18th birthday, that day, and her first day on the job. It certainly appeared she was new. She was clumsy in the “heels” and self-conscious. I should mention she was just wearing a white bikini during her set. The second set, first song all went well, they remove nothing. The second song the top comes off, and all continued well. When the third song started, before the bottoms were to come off, the red stain started. She didn’t seem to notice. After a few seconds another dancer went on stage and said something to her. She ran from the stage to the dressing room, never to be seen again. Even employees of the club professed to not knowing what had happened to her. They assumed she ran out the back door and was gone!

At a nude club, you know? How so? I've hardly ever seen telltale signs, and I think I've been paying attention.

Chandler, I agree. At my ATF's club the girls just took off at that time of the month.

Clubber, her nervous tension probably caused her to start earlier than she was expecting.

What I meant was how would you know any better at a nude club? Clubber's anecdote could just as well have happened at a topless club. (Well, except for her greater nervous tension over showing her pussy.) I've seen what appeared to be a blood stain or a tampon string hanging out at topless clubs a time or two.

I agree that most girls just take a few days off once a month (at nude clubs, anyway). I have seen more "mishaps" in topless joints than in nude ones, which would seem to make sense.

I've heard some dancers talk about how an "innie" or an "outie" can make a difference, if you trim the string and dance a little more conservatively. I've also known a few girls who will just dance (in DC, non-contact) with bottoms on and explain to the customers, sorry, just that time, and still make money.

FONDL,

Whatever the reason, I KNOW that she wasn't planning THAT show!!!

Comments about menstruation always gross me out. I don't mind the blood as long as I don't have to taste it or look at too much of it. But I don't want to have to focus on it, not in a strip club.

Here's a joke. In the old American West, 1870s, a Frenchman and an Irishman walk into a brothel. No woman is available except one who has passed out from too much to drink. So the two men agree to take turns with her relatively lifeless body. But as they enter the room, they note that her spread-eagled form reveals a small blood drop on her pussy. The Frenchman exclaims, "Ooh La La, zere is what LOOKS to be ze Americain menstrual blood!" He then sticks his finger in it and exclaims, "Ooh La La, zere is what FEELS to me like ze Americain menstrual blood!" He then smells his finger and exclaims, "Ooh La La, zere is what SMELLZ to me like ze Americain menstrual blood." He then leaps down on all fours, stuffs his face in her crotch, and eats out her pussy for ten minutes. When he finally comes up for air, the Irishman still standing there agog, the Frenchman exclaims, "Ooh La La, zere is what TASTES to me like ze Americain menstrual blood! Sacre bleu! Thank GOODNESS we did not try to fuck her!"

Har har. Other points:

I hear that women living together in close quarters eventually start to menstruate on a similar cycle. I know that this happens in college dormitories. Does it happen in strip clubs? What about among strippers who are longer-term room-mates, or who travel together? Is this a major concern for management, such that they should try to keep some certain high producers separate from the pack so that they'll be available on important dates? Like keeping your prize bull out of a herd of steers?