Has any city recovered to pre-pandemic looks & mileage?
JasonMckin
California
The pandemic and the new Patreon/Onlyfans/Loyalfans economy has taken a lot of talent offline. Is there any place you've found where your experience is back to what it is before the pandemic? AFAIK its been pretty bad. I wonder if there is even a bit of review score inflation, because everyone is just adapting a new normal of poorer looks and mileage. 2018/2019 feels like a fantasy compared to state of affairs today. And prices are ridiculous too. It's a dream to imagine what you could get for a single Ben Franklin in VIP before. Maybe price is a lost cause, but has any place in North America recovered to its pre-pandemic levels of talent and service? Or do you think it's never coming back and we just have to suck it up to a new normal?
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Although I recall it being more crowded before 2020 in terms of dancers and customers, the girls looked decent on my last visit a few weeks ago. Definitely fewer customers than I recall. Service wise it seemed the same, prices being the breaking point now. Not availability.
Based on Vegas reviews, some clubs are bringing back the free limo no cover deal and floor dances. I’ll be out there later this month to see.
On the other extreme, I'm dropping a club from my rotation due to price huge increase. That particular club looked slow when I was in there, so price increases seem stupid. However, I haven't been visiting on weekend nights.
I'd say strip clubs will wise up and lower cost, but many businesses have shown when the going gets tuff, they simply raise prices further ostracizing themselves from the public. And so far the only clubs that have a visible (key word: visible) influx of wealthy and psuedo-wealthy clienteles are clubs like ONXY, starlets orwhatever other black centric (really weird how there's a lot of latinas in these black centric) strip clubs while the less black friendly clubs will become a bit too quiet even if there new average baller is spending $1K a night. only because there won't be that many to go around for the ladies. and less clients means more women quit for OF, less strippers means less reason for clients to go, and the whole trickle down effect.
I have noticed that OTC seems to be more prevalent than it used to be, that’s probably due to lessons learned from the pandemic.
Mileage never really changed, we had an influx of low mileage girls from out of down upon first opening back up, but they didn't last long at all, literally a few weeks tops. Many more girls are quicker to bring up OTC and even more are open to it when asked, at first it seemed like the girls were just afraid of another lockdown and wanted to have customers on deck. But, it's persisted. Many girls seem to prefer OTC.
I haven't been in a year nor was I there before the pandemic, but I felt like the girls in City of Industry were pretty rough looking as a bunch the last time I went.
Prices are up.
Looks are hit and miss. I think we probably romanticize the past having hotter women. Then again.... I don't remember nearly this many overweight dancers.
In any event, agree that we see bigger bodies these days. The US has been ‘super sizing’ for way too long. It’s a health epidemic in our country.
Then again, there’s still a shit ton of hot women almost everywhere I go and while prices are up, mileage seems to be more accessible too. I was at Taboo and Breathless in NJ last Thursday night. Both with plenty of hot women.
However, I don’t know if the decline of strip clubs is entirely due to COVID. I think the industry has been on a downward trajectory since the early 2000’s - for a variety of reasons, but this decline was definitely exacerbated by the pandemic.