It seems like Covid times have chased away a lot of members on here

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• 623

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  3 years ago

  Maybe it’s not Covid all that is keeping older members away. I know that I have been using the site much less since the new design. I’ve nearly quit reading reviews because scrolling through them is near impossible, other features have made using the site a lot more difficult, using maps, finding clubs by city, many other “features” that are harder to use than they used to be.
• Cashman1234

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  3 years ago

  Hopefully they are simply taking a break during the pandemic. I hope they return.
• twentyfive

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  3 years ago

  Most that you mentioned have been gone long before Covid actually became a real thing.
• WavvyCain

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  3 years ago

  Is winex dead? I remember his annoying racist ass on every thread now he’s ghost. Miss that racist dude.
• WILLYSGOTAWOMAN

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  3 years ago

  I don't go to strip clubs due to the pandemic. So how much time am I really going to spend on this site?
• BumHip

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  3 years ago

  I haven't scratched my PL monger itch in almost a year to the day. I tried my best to stay away from people, and take precautions. COVID ain't no joke. That said, I still got it, likely at work. Anyone out in the world will probably get it eventually, no matter how hard we try to avoid it. It took about 7 weeks to fully recover. I'm all good now, and fired up to get back into the clubs. Have a week in South Florida starting on Monday. At least 3, probably 5 reviews to come. Stay tuned...
• docsavage

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  3 years ago

  A just published Wall Street Journal article says that the number of U.S. cases of Covid may actually be much higher than the official number, with maybe 60% having had it. This would bring us close to herd immunity by April. There has already been a 75% drop in daily cases from the peak as the disease finds it harder and harder to find individuals with no immunity from previous exposure. I've been going to Indianapolis clubs for a couple months and there's been a slow increase in customers and return to normality. We went from six foot away air dances in the beginning to almost pre-Covid levels of physical contact now. The areas of the country that haven't opened up should see the same thing when they do. Our missing members should come slowly trickling back as the rest of the clubs reopen.
• Nidan111

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  3 years ago

  Fuck. I actually miss SJG. As far as those not posting anymore... they quite possibly could be dead from this fucking virus. Most who post are or were probably older than 65. I am loosing 30 fucking percent of my patients (all geriatric) to this Goddamn virus! Truth fucking sucks!
• Warrior15

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  3 years ago

  The Board got real political there for a while. I think that drove some people away.
• SteveSutton

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  3 years ago

  I used to post more often (but nowhere near the well known posters), but desertscrub summed it up. Clubbing is dead for me at least until I get my COVID vaccine. I don't go to clubs just to watch the girls from a distance and throw some dollars their way. I go to try and get action, either ITC or OTC. And right now, with a family at home, I'm just not comfortable doing that. Plus I had already moved most of my spending to SA girls vs. stripclubs. I liked having a "sure thing" for a while, even though those experiences have been very hit and miss. Add to that another major factor for me, which is that travel has dried up. I haven't been on a business trip for over a year, and that was where I had most of my fun. Plus my personal "fun" trips to LA, Vegas and Miami haven't happened either. It's been over 2 years since I've been to a club, and that was a pretty good experience in El Paso. I think next year when I believe things will get "back to normal" things will pick up. I have quite a bit of disposable income ready to go when I'm comfortable to spend it again.
• jackslash

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  3 years ago

  Some people like JS69 left before the pandemic. SJG will be back as soon as the pandemic ends and he can get free internet at the library. I think Warrior is right that the heavy politics drove people away. Let's focus on strippers and not politicians.
• CarlitosPeligro

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  3 years ago

  Agree. It’s the whole club habit being depressed by the pandemic panic.
• Call.Me.Ishmael

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  3 years ago

  I stopped using this site about a year ago when everything was locking down. Figured it was a good opportunity to put my attention on other things. I started a new business, which seems kooky during a pandemic, but there were (and still are) a bunch of people trapped in their homes wanting to buy things just to break the monotony. Also, I wanted to put the club money I was saving to good use. So, I'm doing far better than most, which is fortunate. I'm not going to talk about the nature of the business because it's a niche and Rhode Island is small. So, it wouldn't require a lot of Google Kung-Fu to narrow it down to a tiny crowd that would include me. It's legit and not related to any of the popular topics here. Sorry about the "mystery". I still value my privacy. I've been pretty careful since February 2020. I haven't had COVID (knocks on wood), but I've lost three people close to me. One older and fit the standard profile for a COVID fatality. The other two were younger and in good health with no medical conditions that would make them higher risk. That was a shock. So, anyway, I've been relatively careful. I'm not going to strip clubs anywhere local to Rhode Island. Most are not offering any dances and stage dances take place behind glass. So, it's like a strip club terrarium. Seems less than fun. I've heard that Club Desire in Providence, RI, now has a contact tracing protocol before you enter. They take a first name, a phone number, and a photo of your face. That's a hard 'no' for me. Will I go back to the clubs when things become "normal" again? No idea. I'll probably give it a shot to see if it's still a thing I want to do. As to adult fun, I have two sugar babies now. Neither came from the adult industry or a website. So, relatively civilian. One is semi regular, and the other is very occasional. I fully admit that this add to my COVID risk, but we all determine how much risk we want in our lives. Anywho, I've popped in here every few months just to look around out of curiosity. Today was one of those days and, seeing this thread, I decided to check in. Take care of yourselves. Stay healthy and happy.
• Call.Me.Ishmael

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  3 years ago

  Addendum ... While I was here, I checked the reviews for Club Desire. Per OldWhiteGuy's review on Feb. 15, the club takes a phone number and name, but not a photo. Moral of the story ... don't believe everything you read on the internet.
• HungryGiraffe

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  3 years ago

  Hey TUSCLers! HG checking in. [view link].Ismael summed it up nicely. I have a very similar story since Feb 2020. Been scratching the hobby itch, and supporting SB friends, by paying for sexy pics and vids. The eye candy runs the full range from glamour face shots and masturbation videos, to full sex and lesbian shower scenes. With no business or personal travel, I haven’t connected with out of town SBs, Two local SBs went silent, which was fine with me. Stay vigilant folks! We’re almost through this pandemic!
• sclvr5005

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  3 years ago

  As mentioned between no clubs open and people reluctant to venture out without a vaccine most longtime posters probably will return after the pandemic eases up. In the meantime other interests/hobbies have had to fill the void until things start heading back to normal.
• bdirect

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  3 years ago

  there at candyland getting a BJ while listening to Usher
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  COVID has been a great reason for me to stop clubbing. I was on a serious binge prior to it and the time away has been good for my bank account and overall well being. After a full year off and about a week ago I went back to an old regular club to see if the appeal of clubbing was still there, and after a drink and some stage tips I realized I wasn't feeling it anymore and left. I even saw an old fave I used to massage and LDK but the appeal just wasn't there. I won't say my clubbing days are completely over but I don't see myself going back to regularly going. I could see myself going back if I had buddies from out of town visiting or I was on a business trip out of town but that's about it. I still lurk the site for reading entertainment and occasional titty pics. I think it's been much better without san_jose_creep. And even though overall the regulars posting is down I still see a slow but regular influx of strippers chiming in which is good for TUSCL. Peace out my fellow PLs, strippers, parody accounts, and even bonafide trolls! And thanks to founder for keeping the boards mostly unmoderated. It's why I still lurk here. ✌️
• Cashman1234

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  3 years ago

  It was good to hear from SirLDAlot. His decision to stop clubbing makes sense. I’m glad it was a natural progression away from enjoyment, and not anything related to getting covid.
• Call.Me.Ishmael

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  3 years ago

  I guess telling people that they're having fun wrong is still a thing here. If someone wants to spend their money on OnlyFans, go for it. It's not my thing, but, then again, my thing may not be fun for you. [shrug]
• TheeOSU

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  3 years ago

  I see a couple of the peeps on Muddy's list added their input. Of the others the 2 I miss are Flag and Titty. If I correctly recall things Flag just abruptly disappeared with no trace and Titty wasn't murdered, Founder asked if he should be banned and Titty spoke up and said he wanted his account deleted anyway. A couple others MIA since long before Covid are Dougster and Mikey2a or a2, I don't recall his exact name. And lest we forget our very own illegal immigrant back alley curry covered cocksucker from Calcutta, randumb-rumdummoron, josh43, realdougster, mtent, txtittyfag dot, drphil dot, etc etc etc. who was constantly bitch slapped and who nobody cares about or misses anyway so she's morphed into the silent disliker jonycovid99.
• founder

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  3 years ago

  Just like 100 years ago, the 20s will roar. I've been taking this down time to learn the new way of writing web apps. There are massive changes coming to tuscl.
• Cashman1234

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  3 years ago

  It is good to hear from Ishmael. I’m glad he’s still sniffing around this site. If we changed - while you were away - that would have been odd. We are mostly old gentlemen who have our specific opinions on what is right and wrong. At least we seem to agree that SJG was an odd guy. He seemed to enjoy telling us we were having fun wrong.
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  @Cashman san_jose_creep was more compelled to post the way he did as opposed to "enjoying" it. What he was telling everyone else as "doing it rong" was really his own ad nauseum defense mechanism for his own psyche. By design, he wanted to have the appearance of a monger that knew the game and what strippers really want, but in reality he just had the fantasy of what they wanted. And that fantasy was nothing but the dream of how he "fixed" his own stripper interaction failures that led to his marital and overall life's failures. So, if you challenged this fantasy with anything different, in his "reality" you would be making the same exact mistakes that he made, and moreover you were reminding him of it. As such, he would double down on his denial and attack you for the incredulity of not agreeing with him. He was a homeless dude on the down and outs and used TUSCL to escape from his destitute reality. When COVID hit his area, he could no longer go to the free public access internet computers at the public library. That's why he's not posting anymore. And unless he's gotten his head straight whilst offline from TUSCL, you can rest assured that he will be back as soon as he gets the means to post here again.
• TFP

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  3 years ago

  @CMI now that SJG is gone it's just Desertscrub who bitches about everything. Dancer review? He'll say "who gives a fuck!" and down vote it. Couples review? He'll call it a club ad, down vote it and bitch about it. A girl posting a natural photo showing any excess of meat on her bones? He'll make a joke about her being fat etc etc. Wanna dance in Portland? "PORTLAND HAS NO MONEY!" is his response. Dude gets crabbier with each passing month. Even with all that, he's still nowhere near as annoying as SJG was. No more fifteen threads of him talking to himself being bumped daily, no more manifestos about why LDK is bad, and I've heard no mention of a front room make out session in forever. If only more clubs were open so I could visit and also see more reviews this forum would be exactly how I like it.
• JamesSD

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  3 years ago

  Yeah I'm pretty sure JS69 retired from the board and GACA was slow fading before. And didn't clubber officially quit clubbing pre covid?
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  ^ same goes for Flagooner. He was long gone before COVID.
• gammanu95

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  3 years ago

  Dougster didn't leave so much as self-destruct. He thought he was the most important person in the board until we all called his bluff. He's still here under various guises (since he doesn't have the wherewithal to get an offline life), but he's too proud to admit he was wrong log baxknin as Dougster. I don't miss SJG, since he was ignored long before COVID. I agree that desertscrub has filled the void left by SJG, and ignored him to save the bandwidth for worthwhile posters. Life is too short for douchbags and ugly strippers.
• Papi_Chulo

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  3 years ago

  @TiredTraveler hasn't posted since last September - he wasn't a super-avid poster but posted fairly-regularly in the past and has over 200-reviews - his profile shows he logged in this month though
• Papi_Chulo

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  3 years ago

  And @GoVikings hasn't posted much in a while either although I PMed w/ him recently
• PaulDrake

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  3 years ago

  I know personally I moved on to sugar babies and don't plan on going back to clubs much. Too expensive, too much wasted time to get what I want. A LDK a few times a year might still be nice.
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  The politics was a LOT. I stopped posting and visiting for a minute because I ended up working full time somewhere (recommended to me by PrimeTimeS). Then I started dating someone who fucked me over really bad. I stopped in to lurk here and there, but didn't make my presence known (obviously). Now, I'm working full time elsewhere and fucking hate it because it's a strict 9am-7pm M-F. I worked at Landing Strip once in September or October (I forget which) and I couldn't bring myself go to VIP. There were several new girls and they were all selling for $100 or less. I don't have gps, but from a logical standpoint, they're risking catching Covid-19 for $100 or less not knowing what the virus could do to them if they caught it (death, amputations, any long hauler stuff). But it was also the quality of the customers. If you don't look like you can maintain basic hygiene before going to a club, then why tf would I even consider sucking your dick not knowing if it was even washed that day. So, my one night return to LS was a bust. Worked at Legends almost every Saturday Aug-Nov. It was decent. No vip, bit we still did dances on the vip bench that's just below the vip level there. We weren't allowed to go topless though and could charge whatever we wanted without paying the house fee for those dances. I worked there on Super Bowl Sunday and those dances are no longer allowed. Now it's literally just table dances or partying in booths. So I'm looking into other forms of sex work in the meantime (porn, escorting) while working this asshole full time job I cannot stand.
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  Needless to say, I guess I'm back now and I really have missed posting here and interacting with you guys.
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  @Waffle that's an informative update. Thanks and I'm glad you're back. FWIW my ATF DS also got out of dancing and appears to be escorting and doing civie work. Clubs are mostly dead these days.
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  I have to be careful with escorting though because I'm going to be doing porn soon. My fear is having negative reviews online impacting my potential porn career. the porn thing is for certain and I shoot my first scene in about 2 weeks. I have an agent and everything. As for the escort things though, I'm not sure if it would be a good move or not considering the direction I would like to head in. Hopefully that makes sense.
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  Oh yeah, another update is I quit consuming alcohol as a way to deal with the trauma of what happened to me in Pensacola and the depression that followed it. I highly doubt anybody remembers and I don't expect anybody to, but I was almost sex traffic in Pensacola and just a lot of really horrible shit happened to me when I lived there. And so I basically showed up to clubs, not to work, but to get shit faced because I didn't know how else to deal with what had happened. Covid-19 was actually a godsend for me. Returning to strip clubs after what happened to me in Pensacola was one of the worst things I could have done for myself and I definitely needed the break that covid-19 gave me. I'm not an alcoholic,nor do I have any sort of addictive personality disorder, but I'm sure anybody who has ever been through a period of depression can relate to needing a coping mechanism of some sort. Covid-19 give me the opportunity to come to terms with what had happened to me and I was able to face reality and overcome my depression without the use of needing to mask it with alcohol. I know it's a lot of personal information there, but I was kind of reckless for a moment. Especially with the night I got stealthed (yes, that was me I wrote about), which was a huge wake up call for me and inspired me to work on my resume the next day. For whatever it matters, I didn't have any alcohol at all throughout the summer. I had a glass of wine One night in August. And I had at least one or two shots of vodka whenever I worked at Legends but it was never enough to get me drunk or anything. And about two or three weekends ago, I had a few shots of vodka with a friend and mixed it with wine. But I also didn't get drunk because I had very minimal amounts. And that night was me needing to vent because of this fucking full-time job I got myself into that I absolutely just loathe lol. How is everybody else doing? I would genuinely love to hear everyone's stories of what they've been up to.
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  @Waffle writing your thoughts out is therapeutic and helps you purge and deal with shit. You write well and have a descriptive but yet succinct style, so I like reading your posts. I won't say much personally other than clubbing less has been good for me, my marriage, and my bank account. More time at home has helped me reevaluate a lot and reset my priorities. I also lost an uncle to COVID which sucked. Other than all this, I'm still into gaming, golf, guns, and ganja! Also I'll likely be coming (no pun intended) across your porn if it makes it to pornhub.
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  SirLapdancealot, I'm happy to hear that things are well with you. My condolences to you about your uncle. I am honestly really sorry to hear that that happened. A close friend of mine got covid in December and I was really worried for her because she didn't think she would make it. I, myself, have been sick several times and I got tested for covid a handful of times because I displayed a lot of symptoms when I was sick. I am grateful and lucky I have been able to avoid becoming infected thus far. I am immunocompromised with hashimoto's disease. It causes my thyroid to attack itself basically and on top of that, I also have hypothyroidism (so my thyroid doesn't even function at its peak to begin with). So, I really don't think I would have much of a chance if I were to get this virus. And that's not me trying to be depressing or looking for pity - I'm just being realistic. I feel like we all needed a break from clubs. Hopefully the past year has allowed many the opportunity for some self-reflection and introversion on how to better themselves. Considering the studio I'm shooting my first scene with, it most likely will make it to PornHub. It's a well-known studio that owns several brands. My particular scene is going to be for one of their new brands and I'm not saying anything else about it lol.
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  Now I wanna know your stage name.
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  No lol. My stage name is "No".
• SirLapdancealot

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  3 years ago

  That's hilarious. On many levels.
• Clubber

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  3 years ago

  Clubber is still around. I just quit stopping by as much. As much like JamesSD said, I've quit clubbing. Just didn't have a way to continue. Last clubbing did was with shadowcat up in Atlanta and even that was over 2 years ago. Ever since I left this site, for the most part, I would still just pop in and look around, just not often. As a loooong time member, I just can't go cold turkey!
• wiffle shwaffle

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  3 years ago

  I stopped posting for a while, but still lurked every now and then to see how everybody was doing and what was going on, if anything. But now I'm active in sex work again and felt it was appropriate to come back. Plus I sort of missed interacting with you guys.
• Cashman1234

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  3 years ago

  Glad you are back posting Wiffle Waffle (or No for short). You went through some real shit, and I’m glad to hear you are getting back to working. You will be doing very well in the biz - as you are intelligent and sober - and you have an agent.
• Dave_Anderson

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  3 years ago

  Covid is a scamdemic. Biggest successful fraud in human history.
• Dougsterr

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  3 years ago

  ^You really are a special kind of stupid.