Comments by docsavage (page 14)

One reason existing clubs are worth so much is that it is difficult to open a new one in many cities because of various zoning and licensing laws. It's not a situation where just anyone can open a new club, build it up and then sell it for a lot of money. You have to have money to buy an existing club. It's just another example of the government taking the side of big corporations over the small business guy.

My all-time favorite dancer had bad teeth. Her father became addicted to drugs when she was a child and deserted her and her mother. Lack of money and lack of parental attention led to poor dental care. Even though I'm a libertarian I would be for government subsidized medical care, including dental care, for children. It's not the fault of the children they are poor.

I haven't rejected doing lap dances with a girl because of crooked teeth but have because of bad breath or body odor. Until I started going to strip clubs I kind of thought of extremely attractive women as being like some sort of goddess. After being with a lot of them I realize they are human just like the rest of us and can have things like bad breath or bad body odor.

That "All I Want for Christmas" song she did brings her in over a million dollars a year. If you are lucky enough to write a popular Christmas song you have a lifetime income.

A justification is always needed for continuing to spend high amounts on the military-industrial complex. What is done is taking a foreign threat and exaggerating how dangerous it is. For many years the Soviet Union filled that role. When it collapsed, a replacement was needed. Radical Islam was the replacement. When there were no more major terrorist attacks for twenty years after 9/11 it became difficult to portray radical Islam as a major threat, so Putin was picked as a replacement. If Putin is gone someday there will be another replacement dangerous menace, probably China. It's mostly about preventing cuts to defense spending. The new defense budget just passed is a 10% increase over last year. This is in a time when the federal government is running trillion-dollar yearly deficits and the national debt is over thirty trillion dollars.

We have gone from 1% Hispanic to 10% Hispanic here in Indianapolis over the last twenty years. One local Mexican bar here tried to turn itself into a Mexican strip club, but the police raided it and shut it down. They said it didn't have the proper licenses. It never reopened as a strip club. I think it is almost impossible to get the licenses to change a bar into a strip club here. It wouldn't cost a lot to make the change. Just add a little stage and a stripper pole. I've been in lots of local bars with a little stage set up for bands to play on. Before my accounting days, I was in an unsuccessful band when I was young and played in several little bars on tiny stages. When I tell strippers how depressing it was to play in front of a lot of empty tables, they look surprised and say they feel the same way when dancing to a mostly empty room.

If a stripper engages in a boycott would that be a girlcott?

In Indiana I see an increase, but it is a slow increase. The ones here seem to be able to speak English and have spent time in places like Texas or California before coming here. There are two Mexican strippers who are sisters. Their mother is Mexican, but one has a black father and one has a white father. The one with the black father gets angry easily, is aggressive and has trouble getting along with people. The one with the white father is sweet natured and easy to get along with. I've noticed over the years that siblings who don't share both parents are further apart on personality than those who do. Personality might be part genetic and not wholly environmental.

Hmmm, he does front room make out sessions and thinks buying dances is a chump's game. Something about this sounds vaguely familiar. Different people have fun in different ways and there is no one right way to pursue this hobby. I thought going to strip clubs was a waste of time and money and dating was better until I turned fifty-three. Then for twelve years I liked going to strip clubs and having regulars, including one I saw for six years. Now I want variety and have fewer regulars. I could get bored with that and try otc or I could get bored, find another hobby, and stop going to strip clubs completely.

I think Putin looks more like a strip club manager. Zelensky looks more like the guy who asks for my identification, takes my money and pats me down for weapons. Biden looks like the old guy who comes in on dayshift and buys lap dances from strippers so he can smell their hair. Trump looks like the guy who isn't at the strip club because he invited a porn star to his penthouse apartment. Lindsey Graham looks like the guy who doesn't go to strip clubs because he is secretly gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Nancy Pelosi looks like the strip club house mom. AOC looks like the stripper who tells people her Republican strip club customers are angry at her because she won't date them.

I'm in a very unusual situation in having three strip clubs within a ten-minute drive. That easy access probably helped to lead to my strip club hobby. For a number of years, I visited those three about half the time and other strip clubs further away about half the time. In recent years, though, these three strip clubs have declined so I now rotate about equally among eight strip clubs in Indianapolis. A couple times of year, just for variety, I visit strip clubs outside Indianapolis. My favorite non-Indianapolis strip club is the Hip Hugger in Kokomo.

I once ran into a stripper in an inner-city Indianapolis strip club who said she moved here because it was safer than where she came from. I couldn't imagine where that might be, so I asked her. She said "Gary". I would not pay a visit to Gary, Indiana.

My father said when he was a child during the Great Depression people who worked producing luxury goods lost their jobs while people who produced necessities mostly kept their jobs. Strip clubs are a luxury, so many strippers won't make enough money and will move over to jobs providing what people will really need. You might see your stripper ex-regular working as a cashier at Walmart. Many strip clubs will go under or convert to providing cheap entertainment. When times are bad people will drink more so alcohol sales may hold up. Guys may be more willing to drink at a place with female company so women might still be hired. In the depths of the Great Depression guys would go to dance halls and buy inexpensive dances so they could talk to and touch a girl.

Most of the tweets the FBI was flagging for possible deletion contradicted Democrat policy positions so it's obvious the FBI was being used for political purposes. There really is a deep state and it hated Trump, so it sided with the Democrat establishment against him. There is a Republican establishment also connected to the deep state represented by the likes of McConnell, Romney, Cheney and Kinzinger. The FBI was even spending time flagging joke tweets for possible deletion like a woman who said: "I'm a ballot counter in my state. If you're not wearing a mask, I'm not counting your vote." Who would have guessed the FBI doesn't have a sense of humor?

The girls working at my local Starbucks are cuter than the ones at the local strip clubs so I wish I could buy a lap dance with my Frappuccino.

I try to eat at local restaurants and avoid chain restaurants when I travel. One of my coworkers went with a group of people to New Orleans one time and she told me everyone in the group except her wanted to eat dinner at Pizza Hut.

Few customers would be more eager to do lap dances with girls with piercings. The girls do it as a signal they reject mainstream societal conventions. Them being a stripper is them sending the same signal along with other things like getting tattoos, dying their hair unusual colors, experimenting with drugs and so on. It's something I accept but if I have a choice between two equally pretty dancers, one with piercings and one with no piercings, I'll pick the no piercings girl. I'm rejecting mainstream societal conventions myself a little bit by going to strip clubs.

Whether someone could be charged with coercion is an interesting question. A stripper could say a customer dragged her into his car and forced her to do something sexual, but would she be automatically believed? It would be dangerous to automatically believe whatever a female says while never believing what a guy says. Females do make false accusations sometimes. One time at work I complained about having to do the work of a girl in the office because she wasn't doing it. She retaliated by accusing me of harassment. It was dropped because there was no evidence of it, and I had no history of doing anything like that. Men have to be cautious in an office setting. The fact that I was always polite to women and had no history of unwanted sexual advances helped me when I got accused of something.

Sex in public is almost always illegal. I've had strippers tell me they can't even sit in a car talking to a customer in a strip club parking lot because it looks like they could be doing something sexual. Strip club owners are cautious because they don't want their club shut down by the local authorities. There is no good reason to have sex in public because there are plenty of private places to do that.

I've had headaches and earaches on occasion. Last night I went to a strip club with really loud music. They were worse today, so I finally made the mental connection that the high-volume levels in some strip clubs are causing that. I need to start wearing ear protection and stay for shorter periods when I go to a strip club. Aspirin helps with my headaches, but I have found a combination of white willow bark, feverfew, butterbur and magnesium work better. I get those items at a health food store.

The above reviewer mentioned the lack of variety in the music, but another problem has developed in that area. The volume levels of the music have been going up. I went last night, and it was the loudest I have ever heard in any strip club in my over five hundred strip club visits. After I left, I had a headache and an earache. The next morning when I woke up, I still had a headache and an earache. When I sat up in bed, I had a momentary dizzy spell. If you go here, you might want to take some hearing protection and not stay a long time. I was there over an hour because I didn't see any girls that I wanted to do lap dances with and thought if I stick around a late straggler might come in who is better. This is not a club I can do that at because of the high-volume level of the music.

The Fed held interest rates close to zero for over a decade. That led to massive distortions in the economy. Anyone predicting a soft landing where we can stop raising interest rates and get through this with only a mild recession is wrong. Peter Schiff tweeted back in August: "Wharton's Jeremy Siegel couldn't be more wrong in believing that inflation isn't as big a problem now as it was in the 1970s, because the Fed has only been too loose for two years. QE and ZIRP began in 2008. Powell has a much bigger inflation problem to solve than did Volcker!" Schiff was one of the few people who correctly predicted the housing crash of 2008. Interest rates set by the Fed are still lower than the inflation rate, so you still have a negative real interest rate. Real interest rates need to be positive to meet the Fed goal of 2% inflation. The Fed may successfully kill inflation, but it will require throwing the country into a serious recession. People who predict future high inflation think the Fed will pivot away from rate hikes as soon as we start to enter that serious recession.

A year and a half sounds about right for an average for how long regulars last. The longest one I had was six years. I 've had four that lasted 3 years. They find a guy to live with, move to another city, don't like the strip club manager, or get a better job offer. The typical stripper lifestyle is unhealthy with too much drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and junk food. This sometimes causes a fast decline in looks that leads to lower incomes and an inability to continue to make money as a stripper. I used to develop a strong attachment to my regulars, but I've come to realize this is a temporary and pretty shallow relationship. I don't believe, though, that it is entirely a business transaction. They like it that I picked them out of all the girls in the strip club to pay attention to. Women like being noticed and like men taking care of them. Some of them come from an unstable environment where the men in their life from their father down to their boyfriends are undependable. Their male customer regular relationships may last longer than many of their non-customer male relationships last. Sometimes there is a second act where they come back, and you can resume the regular relationship. I don't try to see them after they leave the profession. I'm too old to be a boyfriend and don't care about being a sugar daddy. I had dinner with my six-year regular after she left, and she was a different person. Not a bad person, just a different one. The friendly stripper you liked so much disappears after she leaves the profession. I don't care about being one of her fifty Facebook friends or having a rare dinner with an ex-regular. When they leave, I think of it as an opportunity to meet someone new.

The Kinks were massively popular in the United Kingdom but were too quintessentially English to make it big over here. Also, for reasons disputed, they got banned from touring here in the United States in the sixties when they would have had the biggest impact. They make my top three, though, because the first rock song I fell in love with was "You Really Got Me" when it came out in 1965 when I was nine years old.

The dancer in the photo would be considered more attractive than the average dancer here in Indiana. I've traveled from Indianapolis a couple times to Night Moves. There were fewer hot college girl dancers than I thought there would be. A number of dancers here in Indianapolis come from college towns like Bloomington and tell me they don't want to dance in a place where they might run into people they know. They also say the college boys just want to date them instead of buy lap dances. As for the quote from the dancer about being a therapist, I would never use a dancer for that purpose. The girls, at their best, are young and inexperienced. At their worst, they are really messed up. I have a natural liking for females and go just to see them as much as go to buy lap dances but would never rely on them for any personal advice. I wouldn't even ask for romantic advice involving women because I have always found that females give bad romantic advice. To understand women, you have to look at what they do and ignore what they say.