"Lap Factory": Your Definition, and "In The Dictionary" Club
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I've seen the term "lap factory" bandied about on DB, and reviews. I lay no claim to originating term, my "understanding" of lap factory is, roughly that of a club that pushes lapdances hard on the customer, and de-emphasizes, or omits other elements of club experience ( stage shows, floorside seating tables similar to normal cocktail lounges, etc). To elaborate further, lap factories do the maximum number of the following things to the greatest extent possible:
1) Frequent parade of "wanna dance" dancers
2) Frequent hawking of dances by DJ, often announcing 2fers that are nothing more than 2 short songs
3) Only 1 stage in use, empty during "dance specials.
4) Relative paucity of floorside seating/tables, discourages dancers to "hang out" with customer(s) for protracted period of time.
My nominee(s) for club that should "be in the dictionary" as a lap factory include Deja Vu, and Spearmint Rhino chain clubs. Although a lot of clubs are guilty of offense#1, to varying degrees, these chains, with blabby DJ, and gimmicky dance specials (along with empty stages) seem to be saying- "OK, for those of you not getting dances, this is our way of saying f#*k you and f#*k off for 5-10 minutes per hour.
Your thoughts, and examples with rationale??
1) Frequent parade of "wanna dance" dancers
2) Frequent hawking of dances by DJ, often announcing 2fers that are nothing more than 2 short songs
3) Only 1 stage in use, empty during "dance specials.
4) Relative paucity of floorside seating/tables, discourages dancers to "hang out" with customer(s) for protracted period of time.
My nominee(s) for club that should "be in the dictionary" as a lap factory include Deja Vu, and Spearmint Rhino chain clubs. Although a lot of clubs are guilty of offense#1, to varying degrees, these chains, with blabby DJ, and gimmicky dance specials (along with empty stages) seem to be saying- "OK, for those of you not getting dances, this is our way of saying f#*k you and f#*k off for 5-10 minutes per hour.
Your thoughts, and examples with rationale??
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The one common element that I've observed in LD factories is that many and maybe most cutomers expect the girls to get them off, the girls are more than willing to accomodate them and they don't expect any additional tip for it. It's why the guys are there and everyone knows it. Which may be the one feature that separates an LD factory from other types of strip club.
Funny though..... since Diva's in Kokomo, IN is a strip club front for a bordello, could we label it "Fuck Factory"? or "Extras Factory"? Naw, let's just leave it "BORDELLO"! LOL
On to FONDL(the supposed originator): For the last 10 yrs or so, availability of laps has been de rigeur at stripclubs. Thus, your example isn't refined or focussed. Stripclubs offer many leisure elements besides lapdances; Bar/drink experience(its cheaper in regular bars), interaction with hot, relatively young females(you can do that at regular bars without being pestered for lapdances, but again, what are the odds of a hot young female giving a middle aged plus stanger the time of day there). For many, the raison d'etre for going to stripclubs is the lapdance.(Where else, besides a brothel can you have a hot (young) female strip naked(or nearly so) and rub herself all over you(for a price)?? It can happen, but the certitude is greater at stripclubs
Given that lapdances are pretty much the norm(and produces large ammount of cash spent in a short period of time), there are shades/nuances of how different clubs go about it. Yes, FONDL, Mons Venus customers go there for the laps, but looking further, doesn't meet my criteria for a "dictionary " example for lap factory. True, there's an extensive lap dance area, but anyone can indulge in other aspects. There's a stage show going on with 6-8 dancers up at once, many more wandering around, so there is no "sensory depravation gaps". Granted, crowded times there aren't good for extended sit down conversation. By contrast, Deja Vu clubs have the same, often greater floor space, but only have/use ONE stage, with ONE dancer at a time up there. Their dancer/customer ratio is not as favorable as the Monz. Thus, the only alternative to sensory deprivation here is to get thyself a lapdance. Hence, a higher % of dancer time, customer time being devoted to lapdances, hence my nomination for being put in the dictionary under "lapdance factory".
I also agree with Chandler that I probably didn't originate the term, it's impossible to pin down who originates a term like that. But I do think I may have been the first person to use it here. I don't recall seeing it before I began using it as one of my primary classifications of SCs in a thread several years ago where we tried to define the various types of clubs out there.