In the city I live in, Indianapolis, there has been a decrease in the number of strip clubs as middle class customers with disposable income move further out of the city into outer suburbs. This migration has reversed recently as younger people move to gentrified areas around the downtown area.
I haven't seen any turnaround in the clubs, though, from these potential new customers. These young people might head down to the hipster coffee shop to hang out but I don't see them in the local strip clubs. Is this true about other large cities? If it is, is it because younger middle class guys just aren't interested in strip clubs or is it because the urban strip clubs have adopted a business model that doesn't appeal to them?
For much of history, it was perfectly acceptable for men to gather and do guy things, including strip clubs. It was a bonding thing. It was expected. You didn’t discuss it in mixed company but no one was surprised by it. It was tolerated as long it was done in certain parts of town.
Now, society has decided that men are inherently evil. Rape culture. Me too. Human trafficking. Toxic masculinity. Anything that smacks of male culture must be shamed and cancelled.
Politicians have embraced this new attitude and are choosing to virtue signal by condemning strip clubs. They pretend that every stripper is being trafficked against her will and every patron is a perverted rapist-in-waiting.
That’s the underlying reason that strip clubs are disappearing.