Dancers and pimps?
Electronman
Too much of a good thing is never enough
I have naively assumed that pimps were non-existent in the strip clubs and that the dancers were "independent contractors" who didn't need the services of a pimp to procure clients or arrange for security. I've also assumed that most dancers were working of their own volition and not being managed (or coerced!) by a pimp. But I've had several recent conversations with dancers who claim that some of the other dancers in their club do indeed have pimps.
My discussion question: how common are pimps in strip clubs and what function do they serve for the dancers? And, for those of us how have concerns about trafficking, is there a way to have fun in the clubs but without contributing to the exploitation of a woman by a pimp?
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I would of course be upset if I knew a girl was doing anything against her will. I’d call the police if I strongly believed that to be the case. However I think sex trafficking is exaggerated and is basically being used as a substitute term for prostitution. It has made me skeptical when I hear these kinds of concerns.
I have enough dancer connections at my favorite club that I know which dancers are in relationships. A few have openly told me that there is no way they would ever allow a man to control them like that and I believe them.
I did once see a black guy that had pimp written all over him all. I was talking OTC with a very good looking gal that I had never seen before. She was up for anything. Offered to go change into whatever clothes I wanted her to wear, etc but she wanted way to much money. I knew the going price. I did keep an eye on her and she kept going back to converse with her pimp all night. I shudder to think of what I could have been in for.
If there were more like that, I wouldn't feel like killing them.
It's very crazy but this is what I gathered from talking to a dancer that seemed to have a pimp. This was in Dallas, 10+ years ago.
It's still just men preying on women, but this is just one explanation.
Now Pre-Deja VU in San Francisco, Spectator Magazine was reporting on how Market St. Cinema and New Century allowed each girl to have one "manager", to hold her money and provide security.
I don't think this goes on any more, but there might be some here with more current experience.
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At the end-of-the-day I feel it's beyond the scope of the avg custy to deal with unless he knows a dancer intimately and know her situation-well in order to worry-about-it or make a call on it.
Personal security?
Hold your money?
Did he actually try to line up PL's for the back room for you?
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Her pimp had customers lined up for a peep of miss nice though
WCG
There's a girl out there waiting for WCG. She will be there, sitting at the bar, under the light, reading Bloomberg's or Ray Kurzweil.
With most guys she just sells dances. But with WCG it will be FRMOS, Back Room FS, then waking up in the mornings with him regularly. She's out there!
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I will say that I’ve never felt like a third party was trying to get me to go to a girl other than a referral from another girl or a friendly waitress.
Must have been Icey with his main bitch 😂😂
Fast forward and a few months into her stripping career we talked and it turned out she had been working for another girl who was herself working for a pimp. The higher ranked girl had been taking all of her money and supposedly saving and investing it. Then when my CF asked for a large amount of her cash for a down payment on something found out it was all gone. Over 3-4 months she had made pretty much nothing...
Pimps know how to find someone at that low point in their life and offer an "easy button".
The girl that I know her mom and dad both died when she was a teen. Her life had been really fucked up after that so the "easy button" seemed like a good deal. And yes she did have a romantic attachment to the girl who was pimping her.
This last part is just my theory - I think some of us might not notice it at first that someone is really low IQ if they happen to also be a really pretty girl with good social skills.
Guy walked in with a Filipino Bombshell, trying to get her hired on. He seemed like her pimp. Had photo books of "us".
Was using the name of a popular Pink Poodle dancer, now gone. Seemed like he was saying her was her pimp.
Real creepy to me. Hope that girl was smart enough not to let him into her affairs.
Filipino girl did not get hired.
I believe that is she came in without him, no problem getting hired.
I feel that if a girl goes to apply and audition at a strip club, bringing a guy would work against her.
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actually a lot of guys will go thru a divorce and end up getting involved in some real negative stuff.
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Also there are some $10K/hr escort agency casting scams around me, I went with a fav stripper of mine on one, he never got free pussy but another stripper my girl knew got scammed 2 months earlier. I'd pay $1000 for a 6 hour video how to be a fake agent uncompensated testing girls for $10K/hr clients.
Pimps know which clubs allow prostitution and which managers are in on it and arrange a cut for them. They set quotas for the girls and use connections to get more girls into the club.
Other pimps just use strip clubs to find potential hoes.
The frequency varies by region. Its very common in Las Vegas and Reno and northern California for example. In Vegas girls who don't meet their quota will work the strip after their shift or on a slow night.
The reason for these girls having pimps varies. But remember they're hookers working strip clubs. Not just dancers.
In that circuit they probably are smart not to depend upon the talent agents or the bar operators.
When this was talked about at SF Market St. Cinema (pre-Deja Vu) I think it was the same. I don't think this "manager" would interact with club customers.
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We have an underground circuit where talent agents put on a show in bars. I for one would not depend on these talent agents or the bar owners.
For OTC they don't need security.
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But we have some more wild and woolly places where everyone is independent and the talent agent basically works for the dancer, and she will often want her own security and transportation. This places have run from San Jose to Gilroy to Salinas.
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That's usually something that's not talked-about in the clubs, nor is a dancer that has a pimp gonna tell a custy so - and pimps usually work-in-the-shadows vs front-and-center for everyone to see what they do (it is illegal to pimp after-all)
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San Francisco different again, but now run by DV, who probably would not go for that.
Also, a personal security is not really a "pimp".
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Pimps in strip clubs prey on the weak, simple minded women who are incapable of thinking for themselves. Of course this happens often. Not because women are stupid or anything but because there are men so ready to exploit women in vulnerable positions.
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The main thing a pimp does is offer them stability and a support system. He becomes whatever the girl lacks in her life. That trust is then manipulated and the girl in turn supports him. Most pimps don't have many girls. A lot only have one to three.
Then theres something completely different that ive seen with really young girls. They may not be hookers but will have pimp n ho type relationship with a man they love. They see it as a form of submission. Its fucked up but so are these girls.
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One girl I used to dance with, young beautiful white girl. Confided in me she only started dancing because some guy took her to Vegas and made her work. You’d never look at her and think she had a pimp.
I would prefer to NOT do business with a dancer who was being managed by a pimp. I'd like to think that she was working voluntarily and taking my money and using it for herself, not to support a pimp. Perhaps this is a delusion?
There’s are tons of services for DV survivors but it still happens at a high rate.
I'm sure there's plenty I don't know about these girls' relationship dynamics and backgrounds.
What I DO know is that I take a lot of these girls OTC and they always come with me, or arrive, unencumbered. There is nobody else with them, nobody following us (I make quite sure) and they always have their own phones. And when we are done, they also have a good chunk of money in their pockets from their ITC earnings plus whatever I gave them OTC.
At that moment, she has the freedom and the cash to go wherever she wants, including get "help" or just relocate to another area. If she chooses to point the car or the uber/taxi towards the place where he is and then hand over her cash, then she is as much to blame, if not more so, than the supposed pimp.
These days, if a girl has a pimp, not easy to tell unless you get inside info from someone else, because the girl isn't going to tell you and the pimp isn't going to be in the club. I also think rick's experience is representative - IF she has a pimp, he's not following her around, he's at home. I knew one stripper who admitted she had a pimp, although their dynamics otherwise seemed like deadbeat boyfriend & stripper girlfriend... I would never have known (and no other strippers in the club seemed to know either) that for years, she went home and gave him every dime. But he's the one who ordered her to work at the club, how often, and made sure she made enough money. All of the $ went to him, but he was out of sight from the perspective of the club.
Like I told you via PM, most of The pimps aren't necessarily forcing the girls to stay with them, it's more that they offer things to these girls that make them stay (housing, industry connections, food, trips).
The guys who beat girls are "pimps" you all probably think of. And not all pimps are like that. Not all pimps are bad. I've seen both kinds.
I still don't understand your obsession with pimps. 🙄
We reached an agreement and she said, "Hold on. I need to run this by my accountant." Her accountant was a big dude on the other side of the central stage. I thought it was a mildly funny way to refer to a pimp.
I appreciated our discussion of this topic via PM. Thanks! But others do not have access to our PM discussion.
Thus I posted this as a Discussion so that 1) others besides you could chime in with wisdom and experience (its called a second opinion in the health care industry) and 2) so that other TUSCL members could contribute, read and benefit from this discussion thread.
For the record, I am not obsessed with pimps. Actually, I am more interested in supporting dancers who are NOT being managed (or "exploited") by pimps. I think that a women should be allowed to use her body as she pleases. I'm not on a crusade to save any dancer, but I would prefer strip club transactions with dancers who were consenting participants without being coerced by a pimp. This discussion thread and my private conversation with you has provided some insight into this aspect of the industry. Thanks.
It's delusional to try to only give independent girls your money. We're professional liars. You've probably done extras with more girls who have pimps than those who are independent of one. And don't be deceived by "clean clubs". The two clubs in downtown Detroit, for example, have pimped girls who find PLs for the local hotels there.
If we were to ever meet, I could easily point out the pimps in a bar and the girls under them.
So that's my former handler in a nutshell. Very similar to a modern day pimp, but with some differences. 🤷♀️
Is that like a combination of a 'pimp' and a 'chump'?
Interesting. So these pimps at Baby Dolls, what did they look like? Demographics wise? Were they lone guys sitting at a table having a drink? Or in a group?
@Waffle. Illuminating stuff from you. If you’re still doing your YouTube series, it would make for a good video topic.
Also wondering, how are dancers “selected?” It is mostly recruitment by other girls?
I personally remember working a dayshift at this one club 2.5 years ago, when a girl walked up to me and asked whether or not I was “independent” or whether I did anything else besides dancing . I said I went to school but had no other job. I was really confused at the time, and I asked online what the heck she meant. That’s when I was told she was trying to ask whether or not I had a pimp and possibly recruit me...which I didn’t pick up on right away 😓
But it’s just odd to me cause one of my dancing pet peeves is when men like to tell me how to do my job. (Which they especially like to do if they either have no intent to spend money, or if they do, it would be for cheap extras) I’m a bit too egotistical in that way and probably to a fault. I’m having a hard time visualizing paying a man for the privilege of something a lot of egotistical and occasionally well-meaning guys already do for free.
As Jimmy Carr would say, slapping your hoe is like keying your car.
I'm going to private message you some Instagram profiles that are going to blow your mind. I know way too much about pimps and their girls.
also, pimps trying to recruit aren't going to necessarily tell you how to do your job. Instead, they're going to manipulate you into thinking you need their help in doing better at your job.
Pimps place hoes in clubs because its an easy place to find tricks. Management gets a cut. And sometimes management will 86 a pimp and then extort him in exchange for working the club again.
Hoes will be the nicest girls to bew dancers in hopes of recruiting them and then try to talk them into choosing a pimp.
Pimps definitely take more than 10% and the girl gets an allowance. They form a codependent relationship with their pimp.
As far as reinvesting money in drugs. No one will trust a hoe with much. Especially if she uses.
And pimps are violent. Threatening to scar or mutilate the hoe keeps her in line.
I think some of you are painting too poaitive a picture of pimps.
There are ways to benevolently manage girls. But thats not what most pimps do
He/she "dates" and "manages" stripper whores by giving them a lot of money and drugs. The same things an RIL trick bitch in denial does!
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I've always seen stripping as this liberating activity for women, and a way for them to earn money in ways that men can't. Kind of disheartened to hear this.
so What are the ethical implications of this? Are you supporting trafficking or hurting women by being a customer of SCs? I still don't think so since what would these women do if they couldn't work there. And there are legitimate and independant women in SCs.
Ughn so many thoughts and I don't know what to think.
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Totally consenting adults. They don't stigmatize stock brokers who spend part of the year in one country and part of the year in another. Only sex workers.
And they do this now cause they have given up campaigning against porn.
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But probably I would still cause of that not want to get involved with her. Have to know more first.
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@IceyDodo FYI this means you are NOT painting a realistic image. Work on your reading comprehension. LMFAO
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"Don’t be afraid to discipline her. Eventually you’ll have to. Be manipulative with her feelings. When that works it means you have her mind and her heart. If you beat her she’ll just be afraid of you. That’s a bitch move unless you really have to."
^ IceyDodo post, June 30, 2018
I've never met one who does both and doesn't have customers that cross over.
And LMFAO Icey thinks she knows better than you. So typical of her.
^ and what I mean by this is that she doesn't escort or do any extras and such ITC.
Also, I don't and have never had a pimp. I specified the differences between a pimp and a handler. I'm a free agent now, but thanks for showing us all your inability to pay attention and keep on track, you illiterate wannabe hard ass "pimp". 😂😂😂
When I went to see my ATF DS today she was entertaining an AA dude. He bought her a shot and then got five dances from her which is a good run for her. After he left she comes over to me and says, unsolicited, that black dudes are always coming in to try to turn into her manager. She laughed and said they can try and she will gladly take their money trying. I asked her if they were always black and she said yes. I asked her how it works like if he makes her an offer before leaving. She said no. They leave her their number and try to become her boyfriend. If she goes out with them and they hook up, they eventually just start expecting her to give her a cut after she comes back from work. She said they just sort of start assuming the role as such after they've built a BF/GF relationship.
We laughed in that at least she got a drink and five dances from him.
I don't understand it myself. To me being a pimp is like being the ultimate trick bitch for your whores. You gotta provide for them, you gotta buy them drugs, and even though you take a cut of their money, you still end up spending that same money on them for pussy. It's arguably more work than any RIL puts into being a trick. At least a normal trick can move on after getting the pussy. A trick bitch pimp has to sustain a typically tumultuous relationship. To me this is really pathetic about them. 🤭
But of our underground circuit, some girls hire their own security.
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In France they say that hookers don't have a pimp ( organized crime thug ). They have a Ponce, often an effeminate man, art student. Bails her out, etc. It all depends on the external circumstances, how things go.
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heaving +10
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