Comments by Book Guy (page 14)

My family has a ton of oil stocks. I'm the young gun in the fold and therefore should, by traditional expectations, be the one objecting to the fact that our investments are helping under-pin and perpetuate the carbon industry and its destruction of our natural environment. But I don't find it so easy. Many oil companies are actually energy companies, very heavily invested in diversifying their business model because they know the extraction-process is going to run out on them some time soon. It will become more profitable for, f.e., Shell to manage wind farms or tidal generators, some day soon, and Shell (among others) doesn't seem to be dropping the ball on that concept. Further, I like the profitability. I once bought a few thousand worth of a Mutual Fund with a description that it invested in something like "sustainable energy" but quickly learned that it had mostly the same stocks as many of the other blue-chip energy funds. I want a single mothers mutual fund, STRP. Stocks in PL futures ...

Partly, I'm with the first few responses and their general notion that the OP needs to lead by example. Partly, though, I do feel this may be a justifiable criticism of some of my own past reviews. It makes sense to recognize that the community of review-readers will benefit from information specific to the type of girl that the club tends toward. But I kind-of don't know how to do that. My local neighborhood-y club has some women who are markedly unattractive to me, because of their huge rear ends and dangly breasts. But I am learning that the "new" variety of stripper available in North American strip clubs is regularly that kind of body type. These women seem to do well with the customers, so, although I'm not generally paying them, they are getting money from someone. I can't just report that the girls are "ugly" or "large" because I don't know if that report would coincide with most customers' assessments of those girls. Tastes among the general populace change by the generation, yet I'm not familiar with what the younger boys are interested in now. Also, various socio-ethnic groups, f.e. Latin American working men, might have different preferences, too. Then there's the question of how to coordinate an understanding of STYLE against an understanding of QUALITY. I know that my neighborhood-y place doesn't have the Penthouse-style women very regularly, though some do show up. And following on that, my belief has become that the closest Penthouse club has higher standards for who they would let dance. But I have no confirmation of the fact that this is the two clubs' business requirements, or even of the fact that the other club might have higher-attractiveness women right now, without actually going to both clubs regularly to compare. So, is the Penthouse-type place catering to a different STYLE or are they actually preserving a higher standard of QUALITY relative to the neighborhood-y place? All of this to say, yeah, I agree, we all need to do a good job of describing what sort of women are generally available in each of our reviews. But also, I might find that rather difficult. I don't know how to categorize.

ps my comment (starting "Yeah I said ...") is direct response to 5footguy's comment ("you went out of your way ..."). Puddy_Tat snuck his comment in there in the interim. pps Puddy_Tat I sent you a PM about that other discussion.

LOL Damn, the attorney found himself stuck between his court-officer duty to prevent and report crimes, and his attorney-client duty to represent his client's best interests. "So, I'm sitting outside and I know something went wrong and I can't say anything else ..." so 911 dispatch says " the caller is not providing much information." I recall learning about that kind of double-bind in my Ethics class.

Yeah I said "black" means lower-class but I didn't mean to say I WANTED "black" to mean lower-class. I don't get to dictate how the language develops as other people use it. Why the aggro, 5footguy, is it genuinely painful to walk around inside your skin or are you just trolling for a fight? Recent comments of yours have invented slights where reasonable people would have found none, inferred weaknesses where they may or may not exist but where their discovery was unnecessary to the actual content of the discussion.

I find that link just posted by stripperlover777 to be a rather unappealing view of what could probably appear to be a very nice ass. When it waggles and dangles all I see is post-partum belly skin.

Yeah @wallanon but there's also some satisfaction to knowing you managed to finagle a great deal. If the usual price in a given club is $150 for FS and you get it for $80, don't you kind-of feel like you beat the system a little? Especially if the service is up to par or better even though the price is below par. So, a great deal of the enjoyment, of course, is based on whether or not you're in the position and place and arrangement that you want, and that you're having your fun, intrinsic to the service given; but at least some of the enjoyment can be due to extrinsic comparison to the rest of the market, too.

On the race question, I sometimes wonder whether middle-class suburban people who are also African-American get sick of the fact that when the general populace refers to "Black" culture what they mean is ghetto trashy rap-music-style culture. When we here at TUSCL say "it's a Black club" we know that this means a set of generalizations -- the clientele will be predominantly Black; the dancers will be predominantly Black; the music will be predominantly rap; and ... the part that I'm not interested in ... the club's ambiance will be predominantly ghetto-style, lower-class, thuggish, kind of rough. To me, that's an unfortunate fact. I know that most people who are referencing a "Black club" aren't saying that expression to be racist or denigrating, they're just by sharing some information for the fellow mongers here at TUSCL to go on, and that's helpful, and I don't accuse anyone of being prejudiced merely on the basis of the use of that phrase. (Sure, there are a few who are prejudiced morons, but that's a different issue.) I'm just unhappy that "Black" means lower-class because honestly I really like "Black" when it's NOT lower-class. I like upscale African-American-looking women, there's something charming about them. F.e. I recall one spinner at Penthouse NOLa about ten years ago who stole my heart and most of my wallet, and I have zero regrets, totally worth it. She was tiny, about four foot eleven, with large-ish natural (or, why do I care?, natural-feeling) breasts and a tiny almost non-existent butt. She smelled great, I can still recall something like coconut. She had sort-of dreadlocks but they were up and out of her face and soft-feeling and looking, I could call them glam-dreads. She claimed to be a graduate student in psychology and I could have believed her, there was no reason to think she wasn't, given her level of discourse. She said she hated working at most "Black clubs" because she felt like shaking her booty in super-twerk style was trashy (I mostly agree) but she disliked working at most non-"Black" clubs because she was generally passed over by most of the clientele, who (I think wrongly) expected her to be trashy and thought of her as less desirable than the more pale-skinned other dancers. I can't recall much else of what she was saying, I was preoccupied with the rest of her. PS is it "Black" (uppercase) or "black" (lowercase) and should I care?

At the main neighborhood-style club here (Visions, New Orleans), tipping $1 to each girl who strolls past your chair on the bar-top is required. "If you're sitting at the main stage or one of the bars, you must be drinking and tipping" is a recording which repeats approx. every half hour over the speakers.

I'd smash, marginally. I wouldn't say no, but I also think there are some potential detriments. Women who are built in this manner tend to descend -- their tits will sag, of course, but also their lower portions will simply get larger and larger forever. I generally prefer someone more athletic and less reliant on their "natural" adipose distribution ... or so I theorize, but mostly they just want my money.

On related subject, if you turn on the Shazam app (or Shazam function, if your phone is recent) you can do some excellent subterfuge. You can, of course, identify the songs so that you never have to listen to the damn things again. But you can also use it to COUNT the songs for you, so the dancer can't over-state the number of private dances she just gave you.

Ann Margret when she was in her prime, and a lot of baked beans. Oh wait ...

I find her visually appealing and evidently she's also a balanced and decent human, which is an accomplishment given her radical early childhood fame. I think if you are asking, "for someone who looks exactly like this but is not the real famous person, smash or pass?" I would answer smash. But for the question, "for the real Emma Watson" I would answer pass because of the ancillary concerns. She's hot, but there's the paparazzi to worry about.

ROFL @illbaicnl ! I figure she would have watched sit-coms more recently than me. I haven't seen a syndicated "bad" television show in probably fifteen years; she and her generation would be much more likely to stare at the boob-tube each evening than I would. I stare at a different kind of boobs tube.

I've always been able to say no when I needed to. I only have two or three regrets, all minor. I think my most major regrettable expense amounted to about $200 to a R.O.B. from whom I exacted no explicit promises, to whom I paid, and from whom I then got next to nothing in service or pleasure. This was at a strip club in Pasco County Florida in 2017 IIRC. I have spent a LOT more than that, on a lot of occasions, in a lot of locations, but looking back I don't find any of the other transactions regrettable. Mostly I knew a reasonable price going in, thanks to websites like TUSCL and others, and mostly I got what was an appropriate exchange of money for service, and mostly I'd do it again knowing what I know now. There were many temptations I acquiesced to, and that's just fine. There have been extremely enticing temptations which I have turned down, and mostly I regret that fact. I can still picture several of the providers whom I did not patronize. Mostly I wish I had done more, not less.

I dislike almost everything played at almost every strip club I've been to in the last ten years or so. There were a few songs here or there, but mostly, it seems to me, a dancer's preferences are heeded while most customers' preferences are not. I haven't done an official survey but I think it's probably a fair assumption that the males with the money aren't the ones listening to wheedle-wheedle-crunk-crunk rap bitching about cop beatings. I might call myself a fan of "classic rock". In fact, I listen to classical music when alone at home, and I don't listen to anything (except your odd news break) when in the car, because I prefer being an active listener. I have been working my way through the Chopin Nocturnes and Sonatas on YouTube lately, f.e., and if there are any performers for whom I'm a squealing childish groupie, I guess I'd have to admit that I have my favorite contraltos. So, when I say "classic rock" that's because I still own some Led Zeppelin and Beatles LPs and CDs. But that's more an indication of the ARRANGEMENT and band-combo-style that I prefer, rather than the specific songs. I'll listen to any of a wide range of eras, periods, styles, but I want it to be somehow tuneful. Not necessarily pop-catchy melodic (I puke for Taylor Swift, though she did look hot in that jumpsuit). But if it simply has no tune at all, like 99% of the rap I hear at strip clubs, then to me it isn't music, it's just rhythm and spoken-word. I don't necessarily object in theory; to me, person can still like or dislike it reasonably, but I think it's fulfilling their interest in something other than the frequency-manipulation that we call music. I think some rap tells interesting stories (some rap is stupid mindless doggerel couplets and nothing more) and so forth. But if it's merely Igowallah, fast rhyming stupidity, no thanks. I'm marginally annoyed that strip clubs rely so much on that stuff when it seems that so many of their customers probably don't.

Umpire is better than adder. Lookitup! :)

Pass, definitely. Plastic face, plastic boobs, male jaw, anorexic abs, definitely not my type. Doesn't look feminine enough for me.

@Puddy_Tat (quick point -- I've seen your inquiry and your 7 points, etc., just don't have time to put together anything articulate right now)

@Puddy_Tat You make fair points. I agree, the privacy-argument was thin at best. (Calls to mind the commerce-clause argument on a lot of other subjects.) And I agree, the Dems have begun to become (have completely become?) the party of "elites" and have largely lost the Labor movement, while the Repubs have begun to become (completely?) the party of the working class. Excellent expression that encapsulates a lot of these ideas, "Chamber of Commerce Republicans." Glad to know that you understand what I'm talking about, at least. :) "Morally" pro-life and "legally" pro-choice could be my stance, too, except there are some people I think need to be aborted but that's another point. And the whole "if you don't like ... don't have" and what you mention that it implies ("don't have to participate in") is not offensive to me, but wasn't what I was getting at. My quip "I know I'll never have [an abortion]" was just a point that I'd personally never have an abortion because I'm male, har har get it making a funny. I don't like the way you use the word "progressive" (the specific policies you've just mentioned aren't ones that I espouse at all, but I call myself a "proud Progressive" for a lot of other reasons; then again, it's possible that there's no way to have category A without category B, so maybe I'm contradicting myself, but that's a different discussion). I'm sorry you'd vote for Trump and send him money, but you make the fairest points I've heard lately in favor of that direction. A level of revulsion at the available Democrats (often justifiable) to me isn't (yet) enough to justify support of the insurrectionist criminal. But I do get what you're getting at. Maybe they'll both accidentally die ... or get teleported to Mars ... ?

I'm OK with abortion too, though I know I will never have one. Early-term abortions, world-wide, are very common, to the point that I think it's fair to say they're being relied on as a form of birth-control. The prevalence of the idea that any abortion is some horrible desecration of human life is a mid-20th-century invention, propagated mostly by Evangelicals with specific political aims in mind, not motivated by a belief in those lives' sanctity or desire to protect those lives. Look to the history of the anti-abortion movement, you'll see plenty of minor opponents with very little sway, generally viewed as cranks and fringe nut-cases, until Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell and similar realized they could galvanize White rural voters into supporting the party of pro-Big-Business and anti-Labor to the benefit of the Republicans. How else to move a starving coal miner into the self-destructive behavior of voting in favor of trickle-down economic policies and supply-side stimulus and tax-cuts for the rich, other than to create moral imperatives and hook them to his religious life? I advocate for the law following teachings such as in the Bible on the subject of abortion -- stating practically nothing.

I don't know most of this lingo. Haven't ever traded stock except as part of long-term portfolio management at investment houses. Don't know how. But the psychological assessments that I've taken all say I'm highly non-averse to risk, relative to the regular populace. I'd like to disagree, since I dislike downhill skiing as the run down is boring to me, but I like riding the ski-lift up the mountain in the peace and quiet at treetop level before the run down.

Yeah it's possible I simply fumbled and she was making the joke deliberately or at least making an opening (for me to spend more money). In the heat of the moment I was just so flabbergasted I couldn't come up with anything other than, "Uh, what? I can't hear you." Smooooothth ...

Where did the $20,000 figure come from? Seems extravagant. I just did a quick search on Expedia to price out a trip to Pompano Beach FL. Flying MSY-FLL on a Thursday noon-time, returning late-ish on the following Tuesday, five nights' stay at the Residence Inn near Diamond Dolls, direct round-trip flight, room and flight just under $700. That means I could bang eight girls (over-budgeting at $250 each, probably less on some occasions) and still have my trip under $3500 even counting entry fees, drinks, out-of-club meals, and Uber. A full weekend of banging, and I probably wouldn't want to do more than for or five, in the price-range of literally one sixth what this thread inquires about. Why so pricey?

Blowjob extravaganza ... :) A trip to major cities in Western Europe where prostitution is legal and/or so tolerated as to be de-facto legal. Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Antwerp, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Berlin, London. Not sure the exact itinerary. Duration dependent on cost, staying in low-star but full-service hotels (not hostels). First three days in Amsterdam. Window girls, full service, two a day, until I'm all fucked out. All remaining days, two blowjobs a day, alternating a pair of girls daytime and night (as best I can). F.e. Monday, Anna at noon and Bella in evening; Tuesday, Bella at noon and Anna in evening; Wednesday and Thursday two new girls. Take copious notes. Determine Book Guy's European Blowjob Queen. Post reviews here and Ignatz Micer's board. Pics and video or it didn't happen! :)