'The '90s compared to today?

Cubans were only in Miami. Not many places had cameras.

I'd say that overall mileage has increased but because of that so has interference by law enforcement.

way more clubs open and girls to choose from back then.

Way more club, much prettier dancers, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less extras, much, much cheaper.

Not having cell phones or social media had to make communication harder. Getting scammed easier

@shawdowcat

That's interesting to note.

Concerning law enforcement and strip clubs, I had this notion that as long as the right palms are being greased concerning law enforcement or local city government, that they will look the other way, that payment to officials wards off involvement.

The place I used to go to, it's like extras were what I would call a "known secret."

I was told that most of the dancers there do extras...but only for certain customers, regulars, not just any and everybody that walks through the door.

Hence my calling it a "known secret."

I didn't find out about this until after a few months or so of going there.

So, if I was able to find, out, then I would think it would also be known to those in law enforcement, but I guess it's not a top priority.

The website and social media have made some things easier. You can message guys on here and get in info one dancers rather than spending your money and hoping you’ll enjoy.
At least in my part of the country, in the 90s it was pretty easy to go on a date with a dancer. Now it’s almost all OTC.
Clubs out here did not have lap dance areas or private rooms so if you were shy, extras might not have been for you

A lot more clubs back then. The girls weren't all tatted up then like they are now (not that that means much). Girls had pubic hair then, as opposed to all shaven now.

Prettier strippers back then here in Indianapolis. Fewer tattoos on the strippers. There are fewer of the working class White male customers there to drink beer and watch the girls on stage now. Strip clubs are more part of Black culture now with rap music and guys making it rain. Less rock music like Motley Crue or Aerosmith.

The occasional amateur nights with blushing amateurs

The music was better.

🔺 I Like A Lot Of 90's & Early 2000's Rock & Other Mixtures, So Da' Music Was Better In Da' Old Days!

Fatties weren't allowed to dance.

1. Sexier dancers. Chunkies and fuglies were much less common dancing in SCs in the late 90s/early 2000s

2. More ethnic variety. The demographics of the dancers were more closely aligned with the demographics of the customers. Majority white customer clubs had majority, but never exclusively white dancers. The same was true of AA dancers in urban clubs and Latina dancers in Hispanic customer clubs. Now, every club seems to be 85% or more Latinas and 90% or more of those are Cubans.

3. Lower prices. I know this is true of everything, but it still feels like my strip club dollars went a lot further then.

4. Fewer extras. I believe this ties back in to #2. It seems like it never really for brought up by dancers much, and I didn't expect it. Chris Rock spoke truth when he said there was no sex in the champagne room. Now, if they aren't pushing for ITC they are trying to set up OTC and SB dates.

As some others wrote, 90s had hotter dancers for sure. A lot more hot white dancers. There were extras to be had but it was much more on the DL in a lot of clubs. I remember getting BJs and HJs from dancers who were very worried about getting caught. Not as stressful now.

Hotter dancers, more white girls. But less extras. There was more emphasis on the stage show than VIP (the opposite is true now). Pornstars and magazine models toured and were feature dancers at local clubs. More pubic hair and less tattoos.

I've said before that I don't think extras are any more common now than they were in the 90s, or the 80's, or the 70s when I started. They're just easier to find now with the internet.

vicetv.com

I watched this Vice documentary about Scores NYC in the 90's. With the help of celebrity clientele like Howard Stern, it became one of the hottest clubs in America.

But the funny thing is it was only topless. And a lot of the dancers they interviewed liked that it was strictly a "look but don't touch" kind of club. In fact one of the dancers really hated how contact/extras became more expected in the 2000s and quit stripping altogether.

So I gotta say if I'm choosing between skinny women with terrible perms and worse fake tits that you couldn't even touch then and hitting a 420 vape with a gen Z chick before getting a blowie now... I'm gonna choose now 😂

^ Lol, I agree @Pawg_Patrol. I'll take the 420 vape chick who does extras over the smoking hot chick with the perm and leggings.

In the 90s and aughts, there were a ton of old dudes complaining about how strip clubs had all gone downhill, that the mongering scene was better in back in the day. Now those dudes are gone and they've been replaced by different old dudes complaining that things were better in the 90s and aughts.

Eventually, we all become one of those old dudes. But, that club nostalgia is often driven, IMHO, by internal factors rather than the reality on the ground.

It’s mind boggling how many dancers there were that were under 18 back in the day—and nobody cared. I remember when I was a newer dancer years ago and quite a few of the back-then 40+ year old dancers had all started really young.

There was more costuming. And heels were tiny.

Idk if I’m confusing the 90s with the 80s, but a lot of clubs actually paid dancers hourly to work at their clubs.

Back in the '90s I might have spent $200 total for my very limited strip club experiences. And absolutely NO extras. and high mileage was just getting a good feel.

Mystified by how people used to have plenty of civilian sex and this has replaced it.

The good old days weren't as good as many remember, and they weren't as bad as many others claim.

Since 1979 I have been saying that when I die, I want to go back to Phi Sigma Kappa, Zoo Mass Amherst in the 70s, instead of heaven because it was better. I still have my "list" of women beginning in 1972 and ending in 1990. Lotsa names and except for the scorekeeping, it never ended. There is nothing I would change about my past if I could, good or bad.., except for maybe Bucky fucking dent.

I barely ever went to a strip club back then but when I did I looked at them as a look but don't touch novelty. I didn't know that mileage or extras possibly existed but it didn't matter to me anyway as I busy meeting and hooking up with civie ladies.

I think the biggest difference that no one has mentioned is stage dancing. Back in the 90's a lot of dancers did some pretty acrobatic pole work. Now most of them just dance around a little bit but don't put in that much effort.

I am going have to disagree about dancers being hotter back then. If you have been going to strip clubs for the past 25+ years you are probably going to be at least a little desensitized to seeing naked women. I certainly am.

Prior to my first SC visit in 1994, I had seen exactly 2 naked women in real life. I had a hard-on once I saw the first dancers, and stayed that way until I left. It wasn't a first-rate club with top-notch talent. Now it usually takes some contact with a dancer for that to happen.

^ My first strip club experience was when I was 17 in 1975. I saw my first naked woman (girl of 15) when I was 8. A size 8 woman in the 1990s would be a size 3 now. Society has become so fat that obesity seems normal. It is not just the women, as men are even more disgustingly obese. My favorite example of how fat we have become is that in 1969, Roger Brown, a defensive lineman on Detroit weighed over 300 lbs. and was the only player in the nfl at 300 or over. One. One fucking player, In 2025 there are 354 over 300. Dancers were way hotter in the 1990s than now, unless your style is fat with a big fat ass, then you're in heaven and I reccommend agaonst going back in time.

^ I would partially agree with you about how fat society has become, the caveat is that it isn’t true all over, I just spent a week in Pennsylvania and yep it’s true there’s a bunch of bigguns in that area, in parts of Florida it’s true as well, but in my general area most folks are fit, the gyms are very busy, every morning we have speed walkers, bicycle riders and runners all over town, the restaurants are packed but they are all ordering cottage cheese with fruit, or other healthy food, it’s not just the young people most of the older people are exercising as well, but you’re right I go up to North Carolina and damn there’s nothing but lardasses, but NYC, LA, parts of Chicago lots of healthy fit people, ski, you go to Cheetah in Pompano not a lot of chubby girls there, even Booby Trap, keeping the chunky ones to a minimum, same is true for most of the better clubs down here.
It isn’t the same everywhere but the country as a whole has gotten fatter.

I am not sure why a lot of people are saying less extras in the 90's. I was in Tampa frequently for several years late 90's / early 00's and extras were readily available. Seven Seas and Tanga Lounge come to mind. I think the stripper sweet spot was during and immediately after the Great Recession of 2008. In my 40 years of clubbing I had never seen such an influx of young hot and willing dancers and it was seemingly happening everywhere. I was traveling between Az, Kn, Mo, IL, Mi, & Fl and all the clubs were great fun.