Comments by compoundword

You guys are crazy. The government isn't making cockfighting illegal because of animal cruelty - frankly, that's just the spin they put on this legislation to make them look benevolent. Uncle Sam cares about dollars and cents. Cockfighting (or dogfighting) is generally unregulated gambling that goes under-the-table. For every dollar spent gambling on cock fighting, that's a dollar not paid in sales tax/sin tax/etc. Follow the money.

I'm not really sure how much google juice that's going to get you. Founder, the best thing you can do to improve your google rankings would probably to put RSS feeds on every page - like an RSS feed of the club reviews, blogs, etc. Google loves RSS.

Not really. However, the Traffic Light is always $10/dance. Also, I think Chix on Dix is $10/dance on weekdays but you might have to call to verify.

harrydave: they're called "corrections"

Michigan: where the high business taxes keep the manufacturing away and the extreme brain drain keeps everyone else away. As a grad student, I can attest to 95%+ of people that obtain graduate degrees from Michigan Universities leave the state immediately after graduation (including myself in a few years).

FONDL - you should see the movie Idiocracy. Pure genius.

Wow, you think about this too much... In general, SC's are a luxury good. Demand for luxury goods increase as relative incomes increase. In a recession, relative incomes are stagnant or decreasing. Therefore, demand will remain stagnant or decrease proportionally with income. Barriers to entry have always been fairly low to work in the sex industry and a decrease in demand isn't going to lower them any further (neither are any of the psychological factors mentioned - those have always been there). You will probably see a tightening in the sex industry - prices may decrease slightly but most likely supply will shift accordingly. I do not see any reason why there would be a supply-side shock as you argue.

I think the probabilities of encountering a "slave" dancer or AMP worker are quite low. Probably less than 1%. Our government does a reasonably good job at stopping this sort of behavior. However, if a dancer told you in a VIP dance that she was being forced to work at a club, I think you would have a moral obligation to report it. There was just a case here, in Detroit, a few years ago that involved eastern european college girls being forced to work at a few area clubs. A patron reported the girls to the police and the FBI arrested the smugglers and the girls were saved.

I'm considering driving from Detroit, as well, but the place is going to be so busy I'm not going to get a chance on a 3 way dance. hah.

Call me crazy but I'd stay as far away from stripper lactation as possible. I'm pretty sure almost any disease can be transferred that way (including a lot of serious diseases). It might be fun at the time but would be one hell of a story to explain to your doctor/wife... Be careful out there, bros. We live in a dangerous world.