Should kids be allowed in the building?
I saw something not that long ago that stuck with me. It looked like a house mom or someone like that was babysitting a young kid while their mom was dancing. I saw the handoff. The kid had been upstairs somewhere so maybe it was on a day when Lust was closed. The babysitter brought him down the stairs that the valets use. I didn’t see any abusive behavior. It looked like the woman watching the kid and the dancer mom cared for the kid. But it just surprised the heck out of me to see a kid here at all. I definitely sympathize with the single moms who work here but I was shocked to see a kid here and wonder if that’s really a good idea. It seems like this place should be a no-go zone for any minors and am just curious what others might think.Got something to say?
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That's really the gist of it. If the kid sees girls in stripper clothes, or hears the girls saying dirty words, or anything PG or worse, it's got to be bad for the kid.
However, if she's in a jam and got stuck with the kid because the deadbeat dad wasn't around for his turn, and the girls all understand to tone it down that day, and they keep the kid busy in a closed Lust area, maybe it isn't as bad.
Heck, who knows? Maybe they're on to something by using Lust as a daycare center on slower nights when it is closed. 😁
Setting aside for a moment that it's not a great place for a child, consider what might happen if someone surreptitiously shot some video or images of a minor in a strip club and that went viral. That's not the sort of attention any strip club wants, let alone an extras club.
That said, single parenta plus childcare emergencies equals sometimes having to make the best bad decision. I'd like to think that everyone involved realized that, outside of such an emergency, this shouldn't be a regular thing.
I don't think it was a stripper's child you saw.
That’s definitely Crossing the line
Wtf is going in society
This is a strip joint.
It's much different that the rest of society.
And I love 90% of it.
if you've seen one naked,
you want to see all of them naked"
- Ron White
Now if they employed an underage dancer they are screwed and asking for trouble, but no club is stupid enough to do that.
It is NOT babysitting.
The teenage boy that's often in soccer gear is Gerard's son. He's seen more tits and ass than any of us and he's fine.
Occasionally, Gerard's sister comes in with her kids to see Maggie.and they usually go up the back stairs to the office on the second floor as opposed to the floor of the club.
ALL of them are less scarred than some 2nd grader forced to sit through Drag Queen Story Hour!
Skibum, I don't think it's crazy for customers to be uncomfortable seeing a child in a place where there is an expectation of adults only. I also appreciate that this forum allows us a place to discuss things like this. Most of us really like the club, but it's ok for us to point out things we don't like about it. And a kid being present sometimes is something I definitely don't enjoy. I don't view that as "whining."
My only concern remains the possibility that someone would post an image or video of a kid in a strip club to social media, and seeing that go viral in a not-great way. But, ultimately, that's also none of my business.
If everyone in Club Desire (customers, dancers, or staff) made nothing but the best decisions, then a lot of the fun we have in Club Desire wouldn't 't happen at all. So, I'm willing to live with some bad decision making in exchange for a great strip club experience.
I believe allowing a kid in a titty bar is a very bad idea. This isn’t the 1990s when 14 year olds were allegedly working at clubs.
wow. this is some pretty wild shit. what's going to happen say 2 years later when his pals start getting deflowered? is the club son going to to try and keep up by pressuring one of the girls to be his first? will the father side with the kid and say get the kid off or else lose your club gig? this sounds like it could lead to some real nasty lawsuits within the next few years.
Besides, there’s kids at bars nowadays. Besides the nudity, strip clubs and bars are kinda similar in the vulgar conversations and drinking.
Aaron Hernandez was there right after the murder? Are you sure?
See how that goes for you.
Funny that Hernandez was there, but you also know that the newspapers love pushing stories that make the strip joints look bad, so I'm sure they made a bigger deal about it than it actually was. If he was meeting his gangster friends at a local dive bar every night, that's not as salacious.
I read the article and it didn't say Hernandez used it as an alibi. It just said that the police wanted to see if he was there, and with friends, on some weekend (which was probably the weekend of the murder). But it seemed like they were fishing more than anything.
Odin Lloyd was killed about 3:30 am on a Monday morning, so a bar couldn't be used as an alibi. The Providence Journal article says they wanted to see if Hernandez was there on a weekend, then mentions the other strip joints, and they went as far as to interview a guy from the Cadillac Lounge.
I think someone just had the agenda to associate the murderer with the strip joints. SOme people in the media hate the strip joints (probably because their wives won't let them go).
The timeline:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/20…
I agree in general that there is no upside to having kids there, although strippers with no babysitter have limited options.
My point is that the suckbag nwespapers and TV stations love to make an association between crime and strip joints.
The Providence Journal article, for no reason, says that murderer Aaron Hernandez went to Providence strip clubs, and gets a quote from the Cadillac Lounge, who was stupid to give the quote.