DV destroyed San Francisco by ratcheting down the Front Room Friendliness, till it is little more than "Wanna Dance?"
San Francisco had been wild, almost anything goes.
So you don't take a girl into the back room to see if she is good. You take her into the back room because she is already great in the front room.
Some were calling Market St. Cinema an "Orgy Club". Sometimes people didn't even bother with the back rooms.
The women make far more money that way, cause they can do it their way, and they tend to do what it takes to make it happen.
DV wants you to shell out money for the back room, really just cause you have been sold a fantasy. The girl has not opened up to you, so what happens will be by dissociation.
And they are trying to export this to TJ, so it seems.
As it is now, TJ is known for Front Room Feel Ups and Makeout Sessions going to FIV, and sometimes even more.
Primarily DV is a think thank. With women at their highest levels, they have studied the psychodynamics of strip clubs and figured out how to maximize the take.
Jim and Artie Mitchell said they wanted MBOT to be Amsterdam West. And Jim had seen there a Front Room on stage DATY show. A line of guys, each would take a towelette and wipe the the girl off, before giving her some licks. This kind of stuff shocks people and changes them. It shocked Jim Mitchell. When he came back he was never the same.
The Mitchells wanted to thumb their noses at the society and its authorities.
DV is not like this, it is beholden to investors and wants to maximize their return. That means selling more fantasy than reality, and getting has much money out of you as possible. So they tone down the front room, they run up the prices, and so what happens in back is shit. And it only gives good money for young hotties. The older ones really get squeezed. Eventually most girls leave for looser clubs.
But then that was when they did not control all the clubs in San Francisco. When it gets like that, there is no where else to go. That is when they really destroy the front room and send the prices sky high. $600 half hour, $1200 hour, and with a girl who you have not built any intimate rapport with.
DV buys clubs just to close them, as zoning laws make it impossible to open more. And they are looking CA AB-5, which destroys gig work, to ruin lots of these clubs, so that they can buy them up cheap, and either install their clip joint system, or just close them.
They are not pushing the limits, they are just reaching the bottom of your wallet.
SJG
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