Strip Club Ethnography
lailababy12
I am doing a cultural ethnography on strip clubs. The one my group chose to attend was Roxy's in Brooklyn, Illinois. It was my first time ever in a strip club, and whoa was it an experience! haha. In my part of the project I have to define ethnicity and class as it pertains to Roxy's. Anyone have any thoughts? What do you guys notice, as far as ethnicity and class, in the more raunchier strip clubs?
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The raunchiest club, if raunchiness were measurable, that I've seen is not far from Roxy's, at Miss Kitty's in Washington Park, IL, and based on my only experience there, half of the girls are black, and most of the rest are not white (if Hispanics are different than whites). The real question may be why blacks are raunchier than whites.
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(The TUSCL version of celebrity deathmatch)
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(Good lighting? This one is just what's going on in people's heads...)
j/k
Personally, I think raunchiness tends to matter more on the socio-economic background of the girls/club. High-end clubs get more high-end girls that tend to never offer the kind of "extras" that you'll get in the smaller clubs in the seedier areas.
As for ethnicity, I think there are a number of guys (myself included) that sometimes use strip clubs to get their "jungle fever/yellow fever/white girl fever/etc" taken care of, just as they would use hookers/escorts to get acts performed that they couldn't get normally or easily. I also think the more savvy strippers know this and recognize it, and use it to their advantage.
As it's been said many times here, strippers usually only see customers as 1 color... $$$ green.
Yes, I'm a college student and I was able to do this project because my teacher is very open-minded. It was my first time in a strip club and although the one i went to was really raunchy and disgusted me, it also intrigued me haha, so I might take a trip to one again in the future.
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