Seriously where the fuck is everybody? Do I need to list out the names? Could it be the delcine of strip clubs in America? Could it be the our esteemed fellow members left the hobby and actually got a life? Impossible.
I'm proposing a nuclear option: We appeal to SJG to come back to liven up the board. I head over to make the case over at testosterone life boat forum and make the case for him to return. DON'T TRY TO STOP ME, HERE I GOOOOOOOOO
I haven’t been checking that much, but I think things have been quiet. I don’t see posts from regular posters I was used to like 25 or gamma.
Regarding SJG…or, as I called him, the San Jose Ape…I liked the guy. Yes, he was a weirdo. And he probably could have been a little less into his whole “Imma superglue you anus closed” to the people that made fun of him. But this lion wants you to tell the truth: did you think he was anything other than a harmless weirdo?
Don't worry Muddy! We'll have the guys with the white coats and tranquilizer guns to your location in a jiffy!😂
And seriously, let’s get real about the number of weirdos on this site. I mean really…nobody complains about Skifredo bragging that his mommy let him cross the street all by himself when he was 14.
Yes, the whole “my mommy let me cross the street all by myself” isn’t as aggressive as “where’s my staple gun? Imma staple some buttholes!” But I never really felt that the San Jose Ape was going to attack the butthole of another TUSCL poster. Tell the truth: you didn’t think that either!
On the other claw, this lion totally believe that Skifredo’s mommy didn’t let him cross the street ‘til he was 14! And if you “thank about it” (as the Juice ape, may he RIP, would have said) you totally agree that Skifredo wasn’t responsible enough to cross the street on his own ‘til he was 14. ROAR!!!
The life blood of this website is reviews and yet many contributors can’t be bothered writing reviews these days. I believe Founder has addressed some aspects of review being processed more easily with only 4 members needing to affirm a review. There are 20 or so contributors whose comments I used to see in my feed, but that feature has been removed more than once. I see them now only if they write an article or they comment on a favorite club. I personally would like Willyo and others to return to reviewing clubs, but I understand that they found “group rule 2017) to be a disincentive. I want content and can sift through typos and grammar issues that made my “c..tabeast” 8th grade English teacher an all time Beast!!! ATB!!!
Minnow obviously honors the ATB with his want for perfection, but this is only calling out his need for clarity!
Lastly some contributors have moved on, as the board no longer offers them something in their interests today.
The air has been let out of the locker room due to site changes and comedic contributors being sequestered, whether their own doing or by force. There’s just little relief to share your worldly experiences on this site when feedback has been disrupted.
When the dynamics of 10 years ago were at play, we got great material from guys who could dish out some pretty funny stuff, and some other guys who got butthurt pretty easily. Maybe the MeToo movement had something to do with it, but either we got too sensitive or desensitized to all the noise. I would say that once the site changes slow down and members can get used to the layout and operating this site for their needs, likely we will see engagement pick up. Granted 10 years ago a lot of the engagement was busting chops, but some guys really showed their craft exceptionally well, which brought back much youthful spirits.
New layout disincentivizes feedback in every way.
No thumbs up/thumbs down? Less feedback.
Only 4 adjudicators to publish a review? Less feedback (and more garbage approved).
No Top 40 members reviews published? Less incentive to write reviews.
Constantly having to relearn a new interface? More members just give up on learning it at all.
You write a review nowadays and it just gets lost in a deluge of low effort crap. Buried by pending reviews since they don't have their own page anymore. No comments, no feedback. Feels like... what's the point?
Soon this board will just be SL777 spamming hundreds upon hundreds of unrelated images on every post 😂 Once again, a deluge of information with little value. And less and less incentive to parse through it all...
The mute feature stopped the trolls. Same with reauirinv membership. I am glad @founder took action against those annoying trolls that do not srite reviews.
I asked all the newbie questions when I was one. Haven't seen any newbies doing that lately. I'll try to think of some good conversations to get started 🤔
It’s a new era. People come and go. That’s life.
Many of the classic submitters have retired or died. More in the clubs have never heard of this site, believe it or not. So doesn’t surprise me to see less reviews. However, in cities I’m around all over the country the reviews (new and old) have helped. Less scam ones now I feel. But overall there’s less action in most clubs to note since covid years, hands down. Hobbyists share it, older girls in clubs share it, even bouncers and barkeeps have shared it….
Lotta doom and gloom. Clubs closing, girls are uglier, club fees are higher, and extras are more expensive or not available at all, and this site is going to pot. It’s all a matter of perspective. For somebody like me who just got into the hobby about 6 years ago and got on this site a couple years after that, things are looking pretty good. Maybe ignorance is bliss
PAWG +1
There are so many factors at play that it feels impossible to try and nail down the leading cause of a less active discussion board. There are also many unique personal preferences and reasons which members have or joining here. I also do not lament the absence of SJG, randomloser, or 25iq. The quality of discourse on this board has been significantly elevated since they stopped participating.
For my part, referring only to in-hobby posting, I have been travelling less than I used to. We concluded our latest round of growth in mid-2025. It looks like I will only be travelling for business 2 or 3 times annually, and not always to places with any or any decent strip clubs. My local strip clubs are too awful to bother with. I still have clubs in my usual travel cities bookmarked. Although, most of them have gotten too crazy with prices or the quality of dancers has dropped too far.
I think, 10 years ago when I joined TUSCL, there were fewer incels. I have already noted and complained about the discussions all about whether or not a single, specific dancer still works here or puts out in VIP. I don't remember that from the past. This is not american sex guide. That is the lowest form of participation on the board, and sometimes the front page is filled with those posts.
Everything moves in ebbs and flows. This board is no different. However, culture also marches on and changes. I don't think strip clubs are going to be growing at all, and I think we are seeing the inevitable slow decline leading to them being only a locally preserved relic in a few urban pockets.
I do think the board is dying. I can't say for sure why but can only say why my personal participation was never much and has dropped to almost zero lately:
The site design now is horrible - ugly and only borderline usable, and they keep fucking with it for no apparent reason. Please just revert to what it was a few months ago before the last round of big changes, and then just stop fucking with it. Oh and the lack of dark mode is such an eye strain.
I've had my VIP on auto pay almost since I first joined, I think of the money as already spent so I have zero motivation to go through the hassle of writing a review or article and getting it approved.
I used to post in discussions occasionally, but I've dropped back to being almost entirely a lurker now. It's almost impossible to say anything without uncalled for hostile, aggressive responses, so my attitude now is fuck it I don't need the hostility in my life. Every so often i have to re-learn the lesson not to bother interacting with other mongers, it never ends well. I'm only posting now in hopes somebody will get the message why at least some people are abandoning the board. Mute would be useful if it were two way, but the current one way mute doesn't cut it.
I don't even lurk as much anymore because discussions are so full of comedians, flame wars, politics bleeding into front room threads, endless smash or pass threads and various other nonsense. When I do lurk, ninety percent of the time I'm not even logged in anymore.
I don't even get much use out of the reviews any more given the crap that somehow gets approved.
I'm increasingly leaning toward turning off my paid VIP unless I'm planning a trip to a club I don't already know pretty well.
Good points @GordieBoi
Gordie you nailed it
Board dying? Possibly a sign of the times. In NE Ohio multiple clubs have closed over the last 10 or so years and the dancer quality has nose dived big time.
BTW I know Muddy is joking about bringing the sjcreep back.
I recall one theory that he lost his library access and that's plausible but i think he would have found another way to get back online by now. My theory is he shot his mouth off to the wrong person/people or acted on his bizarre fantasies and he's either dead or committed.
In hindsight SJG was right about a couple things, main one being the black girls are ones to initiate front room makeout sessions before taking them to the back where you take your pants down. Could be his dream of getting an ev and traveling across the nation to visit all the black clubs came to fruition and he will create a manifesto to share with us all on his findings.
It is of value that he did share his experience that hit list amongst all of his political shit. True can be said about this board; too much shit with little sticking.
I like Muddy
It's definitely dying in that overall participation is way down. I've been lurking and posting to the boards for years...back as far when san_jose_guy was still somewhat sane and posted about actual and recent visits to AMPs...rather than posting a fantasy manifesto about creating a sex cult or pages of drivel from a library book he just read. And most definitely the participation now is as low as it has ever been over many years. Sure there's always been ups and downs but it's the absolute lowest now.
For myself I don't post because I just don't go to strip clubs much at all. Also because many of the members that had fun on the boards are gone. Overall the tone of the boards has become too serious and argumentative and whiny. In the past everyone accepted the trolling and jabs at each other, and it was simply part of posting here. Every flame war, which was a daily occurrence, there were funny quips, jabs, cheap shots, and passive aggressive digs that were funny to read if you had the awareness to recognize it. Amidst it all there were still serious posts about clubs and all of what we have today. And pretty much everyone that posted regularly, in some form or another, was a troll to someone else. It was all part of being here. And I take no shame in saying it was fun, and I had no issues being a troll like most everyone else too. The mock/alias account trolls were funny too.
Speaking of which...@Muddy why don't you bring back your THEWHITEKNIGHT alias account yourself? It was fun when you'd bring him out. I remember some funny threads with him and cashman1234.
I dropped off when the sensitive fucks couldn't take some basic back and forth. For example,
"The quality of discourse on this board has been significantly elevated since they stopped participating."
That came from gamm. That dude is fun to poke at, because he's all wound up in his politics. But since he can just mute me out, I don't get any fun back and forth.
Puddy entertained me. Icee entertained me. Desertscrub entertained me. All of the reach around gang entertained me. But, there's little to no political discourse anymore.....so my discussion entertainment is nearly gone.
Jaybud, the problem with gamma-ape is the he thinks his random thoughts are quality discourse.
OTOH, you are correct that Desertscrub was entertaining. Yes…you could see the veins popping out of his forehead when he wrote shit. Yes…it is indeed likely that he would regularly mix meth into his Mountain Dew and chug it while he was smoking the crack. But that is what made him an entertaining hairless ape.
Bring back the Scrub ape and buy some Mountain Dew stock! ROAR!!!
SJG isn't necessary; his mantle has been passed on to others.
I don't post that much anymore because the discussions are all either AI "smash or pass" nonsense, or middle school "what should I do if I want to see a tit" nonsense.
Unfortunately, mute has stopped working, so I can't even filter those out anymore.
When there used to be the VIP forum, it cracked me up that SJG couldn't get into it, so he'd be like, "Oh you guys always go off into the circle jerk room." Also when he went through that phase claiming to be a black ops agent and said he would wipe out everyone on the board, and we'd never see it coming. Desertscrub didn't bother me but I get why he got tossed, because he probably discouraged new members from participating.
Damn it, I hate when I agree with gmd.
I’ve been commenting semi-seriously on this tread because the number of comments suggests that many commenters want a return to greater participation.
But the funny thing is certain commenters don’t understand their own role in making the board boring…
Take GMD and his “oh no the ignore feature isn’t working”. I wonder if Georgie ever considered, y’know, just not reading posts by those he’s not interested in. Or…heaven forfend…being open minded and seeing if somebody he doesn’t like might say something interesting to him and only stopping the read if it is clearly uninteresting.
You almost feel like the guy is sitting in a chair with his eyes forced open while TUSCL post flash on a screen and Beethoven’s 9th plays on a loudspeaker. He’s all “oooo nooo Mr. Bill the only way I can avoid the Clockwork Orange fate is if there is an ignore…”
I’m just sayin’ that maybe a few days without ignore might be good for him. And Beethoven’s 9th is always good for one’s mental health. So he should try listing to that without his eyes forced open.
Errr…I mean ROAR!!!
Amen @rickthelion. Some of the hairless apes around here need thicker skin. Maybe to them a mute/ignore button is like their virtual "loincloth", if you will. It protects their more sensitive parts.
The Philly region has lost many clubs in the last 10 years or turned into dumps. Penn's Port Pub, Set It Off (post-Marv), Scruples, Red Raven, the 19th Hole, and so many more have closed or are just shells of their former selves. The after hour spot have the same story and have become too dangerous to go if you are not black.
"Some of the hairless apes around here need thicker skin."
It's not about thick skin. For instance, I don't have rickdugan or gammanu95 muted, and both of those have mocked me multiple times.
It's about a front page filled with nonsense posts that drown out everything else. I come here to talk about strip clubs, not middle school fantasies and women who don't exist.
Hopefully SJG is alright, wherever he went. I share the same view about several others. I know some have migrated to Reddit, but it’s not most who have been quiet lately.
The fact is he was deported to Guam and changed his name to GSJ. He's the celebrity resident at his namesake.
He had to swallow his pride to accept charity from Christians but a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do.
You can call and speak to him at (671) 637-1307 Ask for Lloyd, it's not his name but he's always answered to it.
Forums in general aren't as big in 2025, reddit swallowed everything up.
I tried posting a bunch of subjects, but most of the people here have no interest in anything other than extras. In retrospect I should have just stopped instead of putting so many on ignore. The board actually ended the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered by a democrat.
Agree with much of GordieBoy except for the dark mode. I was glad to see that go away. Apparently, no way to chose between the 2 modes. Implementing that would entail more sight tinkering which has been a pita to adapt to every other month.
Even the review of clubs have been dropping off.
Get rid of thr mute feature.
I’m not dying. You’re dying!
Bacon!
Think it's probably just the state of the world. There's always going to be an ebb and flow to life and the hobby.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Please.