Thrill of the chase.
Yes that's the main thing for me, too. But, of a specific variety. I don't really want to do an ACTUAL "chase" after the girl, in which she is potentially difficult to catch, and resists. That's what real civilian dating is like -- she says "no" because she likes toying with the man, feeling her feminine power, and making him bend over backwards to prove his level of desire and worthiness. For mongering, I want my worthiness and desire to be ratified by means of something simpler, less cagey and manipulative and unreliable, than interpersonal skills and dating "game". So in mongering it's a "chase" but it's not a REAL chase. I love the thrill of the "fake chase" in strip clubs.
I notice, as I look over my many past experiences in the monger-verse, that I really have valued being able to compare and to select in an off-the-cuff manner. You pick her WHEN you go with her. And you pick by comparison and, more important, by interaction. And you try her out before you finalize your pick. Other settings don't have all these advantages.
I have mostly disliked internet escorts. Aside from many other concerns, such as price and reliability and id-verification and security, there's also delay. You have to pick the girl on Thursday in order to see her on Saturday.
I have partly liked, partly disliked major brothels where there are a ton of girls in the same building. The FKK things in the suburbs and hinterlands of Germany, and the stairs-buildings in the German (and other European) city centers, similarly aren't very appealing to me. You have some degree of choice but you also are a captive market. You're in there (perhaps you've even paid an entry fee) on a limited time budget, so whoever is on-tap at the moment, is the girl you're stuck with. It doesn't feel enough like a chase, especially since the guy doesn't get the main advantage of a chase, that he can retract at any moment. It can be good, if the girls are stellar, but it lacks the strip-club advantage of having all the ancillaries and of giving the monger the chance really try out the merchandise first.
The window girls and similar "tippel zone" locations, I've liked a good deal. I think I would also like the bar-fine girls in places like Pattaya, though I've never been there. In these locations, you can look, interact, and pick, or leave. These are near the top for selection situations, for me. I might prefer not to have to leave, I like it in the back room where it's done quickly, but I might also prefer to have a relaxed time and be leisurely about it. I might have to visit Pattaya some day.
But the truly optimal, I think, is what you can do in a strip club. You look, interact, and you ACTUALLY CONTACT PHYSICALLY, and then pick or leave. So it's got all the advantages of Amsterdam's window girls but also an added bonus that you can touch and inspect before choosing to do the full dirty.
For all the situations, it will of course entirely depend on the selection of providers present. If there's nobody attractive at the place when you're there, you're just not going to have enjoyment. But that's the case wherever -- in an FKK, or in the Bahnhofviertel, or the Amsterdam strolls, or a strip club, if you don't find a girl you like, there's nothing to be done. So any comparison of mongering settings requires that hot girls be present and available at the setting at the right time. Sadly, more and more this is simply not the case for strip clubs.
I prefer the strip-club chase, yes. You can look and select and TRY OUT a bit, before sealing the deal. Nowhere else is this really the case.
But the girls, over time, have become less desirable in North America's strip clubs. In 1995 the super-hotties were available and, in locations where the club could be a full-service setting, that was ideal for me. So if I find super-hotties in a strip club, then yes, that's ideal. I just despair of finding them reliably.
