Covid used to put final nail in live strip clubs?

Apr 2, 2021, 5:33 PM

Strip clubs have been in decline for over a decade. The Covid shut downs appear to have fuelled a massive rise and mainstreaming of online Webcam sites that basically rip off horny young men without the performer really doing anything.

The positive social benefits of strip clubs including commeraderie among friends, human interaction and human contact are being replaced by exploitative profit maximizing taking advantage of young men who are increasingly alone and isolated in today's society.

I don't believe this is all "just happening" by chance. Either way, this should raise alarm.

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shailynn4 years ago

jackslash, s-cat and Gawker are perfect examples examples of older men being taken advantage of too.

Jackmd4 years ago

This COVID stuff put a lot of businesses under not just strip clubs. A quality product for a wanted service will always be around.

docsavage4 years ago

The more puritanical types always disapprove of strip clubs. Their power has been increasing because the feminist left has increasingly joined the religious fundamentalist right in being against them. In recent years, rather than outright bans, city governments have used licensing and zoning laws to prevent new ones from opening. The remaining ones get older and more rundown and the neighborhoods they are in decline and their customer base dwindles since no one wants to go into a dangerous area to visit a old rundown strip club. Clubs then close on their own without the city government even doing anything.

The Covid lockdowns are just another tool to hasten this process. There are other factors involved in the decline of strip clubs but this putting them in a separate category than other legal businesses and then requiring them to jump through more hoops to go into or stay in business is a major cause of their decline. They won't completely disappear, though, since there will always be some demand for this. The demand would be higher, though, if it was easier to open new clubs as was the case years ago when the clubs currently in existence were first allowed to open.

gSteph4 years ago

I don't think there's a conspiracy here, just pandemic economics. It's happened in my area; now there are 4 where there had been 5.

Perhaps a benefit will be better talent among the remaining clubs. Hope to find out a few weeks after 2nd shot.

Icee Loco (asshole)4 years ago

Greed is hurting strip clubs more than anything these days. $100 covers $500 bottle service for 4 hours of seating. Or $60 to get $15 beers and VIP room dances only.