"It really is pointless to push them. I'll move on and take the first dance at a loss if my expectations for one dance don't match up to hers."
Don't push, yes. Don't negotiate? That's a hard no. If you're like McNulty on a bender and pay any price if the gurl is the hotness, then you're busting the curve and going broke like a mark. I get to the point being made, just putting that out there for suckers.
And yh, this thread is all about physically aggressive customers (and apparently smelling like curry). So that's obvious not to be forcing hands and other stuff where dancers don't want them cuz Rick Dugan will fight you. And it's also uncool.
Almost forgot what I was going to write about. So this dancer who I got two dances with the other night before kicking her off (because she was weirdly rocking on bony shins that were digging into my thighs) stops by my table next time I show up. Her dances were so bad I actually told another dancer, which I almost never do. She leads off with the name of the dancer I replaced her with and her opinion of the dances she gave me. I noticed she'd stayed up on the VIP level by the bar the whole time I was there, but wasn't paying attention to her paying attention to me.
Anyhow, she was asking about dances and I'm thinking about the bony saws she calls her shins. But then I say what the hell after I saw her on stage because she's spinner hot with a beautiful face. This time she walks me straight to the kill box booths in the back of the VIP area and starts doing a pretty exceptional grind. No shins. Then spends the next few songs half-lecturing me on all the things I should have tried to get her to stop "being naive". Then I reminded her that the first thing she told me when we spoke the first time was all she does is dances. Then she says that's true, but she makes exceptions.
In the #MeToo era, dancers need to clue dudes in on what they're open to because we're not trying to be the subject of a multi paragraph rant or more. I'm ok missing something the first time around to not get jammed up with a misunderstanding, especially if I'm on home turf. PSD's not wrong about the grope mongers, not at all. But if she's in a permissive market then it's going to be a rough go.