What do you consider the best learning experiences in your life, either outside your strip club hobby, inside it, or both? For me, my most important one was realizing my romantic relationship in my thirties was negatively impacting my health. I was adopting her poor eating and exercise habits and was under stress from it being the type of toxic relationship involving insults, disrespect and a desire for quarrels on her part. I learned you need to immediately walk away from something like this.
When it comes to strip clubs, I realized eventually it was turning into a obsession. The high cost was keeping me from saving for my retirement. The time spent inside strip clubs was keeping me from exercising enough, fixing healthy meals and having real relationships with people instead of the fake friendships with strippers based on their desire to extract money from me. I still have a strip club hobby but only visit them about a fourth as often as previously.
One helpful learning experience in my life came from when I was really into tournament poker in the 2010s. It helped me learn how to read people and, even though I no longer find playing poker appealing anymore, that knowledge stayed with me.
In general, people who had great hands would feign weakness and tend to act nervous and quiet. Meanwhile, people who were bluffing would act outlandish and loud, overconfident, etc. (Note this doesn't extend to the better, more seasoned players who learn to curtail this). But what that realization helped with was reading people in general life situations too. When people act shifty or dodgy now, I've gotten better at sniffing out what they may be hiding. And when people act over-the-top in their behavior, I've come to understand there's often a vulnerability or something they're misrepresenting.
Those realizations stayed with me years after I stopped playing regularly.