The sex industry is stricken with coronavirus and slowly starting to die
poledancer83
Narnia
Ladies and Gents the sex industry is slowly dying right before our eyes. Before you start to say that online will rule the world from here on out or even for a small timeframe its will not bring back the industry if something isnt done soon and handle correctly. Adult venues, clubs, brothels and porn studios are losing thousands a day with closures and more and more models moving towards independent contracting on sites that sale their own content. Female models as per usual in the industry are much better off at sustaining this for a longer period of time then their male counterparts but even still virtual porn, dancer or sex is not a replacement for actual face to face interactions. The other reality is that girls are moving towards trying the escort type work but it is not anywhere near as lucritive or safe. For those like me that have few daytime responsibilites it is somewhat easy but for example a friend of mine has a bf that works days and she has her kids during the day and goes out to work at night. this is a burden with a far less return than working in a brothel as per usual. Jokes aside some girls do actually strip through college or as a source of primary or secondary income for a family and most places across the US that oppertunity is now gone completely due to clubs no longer being open. It says alot about the state of our nation when the literal oldest profession in the world is struggling as it is currently....
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That being said, areas that rely on too much tourism probably aren’t the best right now. With the supply side staying in one spot and the demand not coming in. Would it be possible for you to bail to a different area? There may be tougher challenges at the moment, but I consider the industry very alive.
That adds up to less money flowing all around.
It's also hard to decide to pick up a relocate to an area that may close down again at any moment. I have been in contact with a dancer that was considering doing this and she decided not to do it at the last moment.
This will all pass at some point. Things will eventually get back to closer to normal. I doubt that this will happen in the near future, however. There will be a lot of damage lives in the meantime.
People will always crave one on one contact. Just a matter of when that will happen again.
I’m sorry it continues, but the virus spreads in the ways strippers and escorts interact with customers.
When the virus becomes less of a threat, will some clubs reopen - yes. But many won’t have the resources to last - and that’s sad.
The travel industry is a mess. I wouldn’t want to hold stock in a cruise ship company either. I hope things get better sooner, but I doubt it. This is a long and painful pandemic. It may be 12 months before the world starts to seem more normal.
How is it in other areas with lots of clubs? Are new clubs opening anywhere in the last few years?
Financially, I am sure it is having an impact. Any business where there is close human to human contact is suffering. We need a vaccine or legitimate treatment NOW.
What if a club offered rapid COVID tests for all employees and customers and allowed admission only to those who tested negative. Would that allow a return to "normal" intimacy in the strip club?
I know, a lot of "if's" but that's one way to envision a goal for a more acceptabel future.
Low cost, frequent, quick turnaround testing should be the aim. Some of the ones out there (Abbott's ID Now) point of care have been blasted d/t low sensitivity, one reports as low as 50. That sounds awful (a coin flip) in theory until you look into the studies. What's happening is it's missing very low viral loads that RT-PCRs detect, but much more sensitive (and important) at moderate loads when the virus is more likely to be contagious.
FDA mandates 80 percent sensitivity for these point of care tests, but is handcuffing itself by setting standard to clinical level, limits of detection vs surveillance. IE levels that are transmittable.
Not only would we return to a level of normalcy in the SC, but to work, school etc.
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Clubs will come back as restrictions are lifted and the economy improves. I'm guessing the latter.
Adult entertainment fortunes rise and fall with the economy. They got whacked in '01-'02, '08-'09 and now this. Since it's purely discretionary entertainment spending for most guys, it's the first to go when times get lean and the last to come back as things improve. The same horny guys who were blowing money on this stuff a year ago are still as horny as ever, they're just too broke right now.
And yes, there are some clubs that aren't going to survive these forced government shutdowns. Nobody ever runs a business thinking that it will be forced into zero revenue for several months. But as the economy improves (whenever that will be), demand will increase and new entrants into the industry will pop up to meet that demand. Capitalism abhors a supply vacuum. ;)
As long as men are horny freaks who want sex more than anything else the sex industry will survive. If men stop valuing sex above all else the human race will die out.
There will always be 19 year old girls who start stripping. They money being a cocktail waitress or even cam girl can't compete.
The clubs need to fight the urge to juice their existing customers and dancers to replace missing cash.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.…
men restort to violence, suicide and/or selling drugs. If youre a man doing okay you wont be able to flaunt your money in a SC without getting robbed, takeout or VIP.
I think it will survive the pandemic as well. Clubs may close and strippers may need to do some horrible dirty work - like McDonalds or WalMart - but it will come back once this is over.
What ever happens - things will go back to normal EVENTUALLY, and when they do, if the current clubs are long closed, some genius will open up new one(s).
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.co…
Everyone thinking they have it good because theyre teleworking. Corporations/Companies are going to eventually outsource your $25 hour job to someone in a third world country to someine thats going to do it for $5 an hour.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automob….
If you have the money you are probably going to have lots of funny when strip vlubs open up
As goldmonger already pointed out, most clubs only exist because they were grandfathered in when local official passed anti-strip-club regulations but couldn't legally enforce the new regulations retroactively on a pre-existing establishment.
The industry was dying before COVID. COVID has only accelerated it.
For example, in NY, CT and NJ I agree that replacements for dying clubs are unlikely. Not only are those places more hostile to new clubs, but the affluent population base has been shrinking in favor of places like NC, SC, FL and TX anyway. In some of my favorite CT clubs it was a veritable ghost town even during the pre-COVID economic peak.
Conversely, TX and FL, by way of two examples, are much more friendly club environments. If the supply of clubs exceeds the demand from affluent guys once the economy improves, you'd better believe that more clubs will spring up. Here in J'ville we had three new clubs spring up during the last economic runup.
Horny guys with cash to burn have not gone away. They have just shifted to other venues and many are staying out of clubs now for a variety of reasons. This industry may not return to its peak prior to the Great Recession for a long time or even ever, especially as a greater % of working age men get older and retire out of the workforce, but I don't see this industry ever dying unless something viable comes around to seriously replace what it provides. SA has no doubt provided it with some competition over the past several years, but it's far from a replacement.
w.r.t. the sex-industry, there is a double-whammy of the economy shutting -down, plus a virus that requires social-distancing; these are abnormal temporary times.
In the end it all comes down to betting on America and the fact America has always bounced-back and thrived to new-highs - for me personally my biggest concern for America's future is the Progressive "everybody gets a trophy" movement/policies that IMO are the biggest threat to the economic future of America.