Comments by docsavage (page 30)

Fauci and his policies lost support among Democrat politicians when their internal polling showed he was increasingly unpopular with the voters, and he was becoming a political liability for them. Most people don't like to admit when they were wrong so, rather than publicly repudiate Fauci, they went silent on the vaccines, lockdowns and mask wearing that he promoted and tried to change the subject to something else. The Democrats tend to support bad policies for too long, which is why the next election is looking so bad for them.

I'm 65 but have decided to stay where I am. I've lived here in Indianapolis my whole life and my friends and family are here. The local strip club scene is decent, with eight clubs I like within about an hour drive. The city and the strip clubs are in a slow decline, but it seems like the whole country is in a slow decline so moving isn't going to get me away from that. I do keep moving further and further out into the suburbs to get away from increasing urban crime so that helps.

It could be worse than it is. I visit unmoderated political discussion websites and you see a lot of racial or religious slurs, neo-Nazi types talking about how the Holocaust never happened, calls for a race war and so on. I think the owner of this website may do something to keep them off of here in the political section, but I also think that the type of guys who go to strip clubs tend to be more the live and let live type of guys. Someone who does something that many people consider socially unacceptable, going to strip clubs, tends to be more understanding and tolerant of other nonconformist types.

Hunter Biden did and Joe got another grandchild.

Rather than a certain type of music, the most important thing to me is a certain volume level. I go to strip clubs to buy lap dances, but I also go to see and talk to the girls selling me the lap dances. Often the music is so loud when they sit down at my table, I can't hear what they are saying and have to keep asking them to repeat what they said.

If the guys who just sit and drink weren't there, then you would just have more empty tables in many cases. Clubs do try to limit that by charging an entrance fee and the entrance fee usually goes up at busy times when there might be a shortage of available tables. Many girls are not going to make it as a stripper. I regularly buy lap dances in clubs but I sometimes have an obese, old or unattractive stripper get angry at me because I'm not tipping her, buying lap dances from her or buying her drinks. She's usually gone forever the next time I visit the club. I don't feel bad about it at all. Their anger came from unrealistic expectations. It would be like me getting angry because the hot stripper half my age won't be my girlfriend.

The most lap dances in a row I ever did was six at Hip Hugger in Kokomo, Indiana. What kept me going was the girl was pretty and the lap dances were only ten dollars each. I did five dances once at Little Darlings in Las Vegas. What kept me going there was that they were nude lap dances, something we don't have here in central Indiana.

"^ that’s all true, but my point was simply there are better places to get a return from your investments that are less complicated than relying on the good will of the political class, but sure I agree as far as that goes." I agree completely. I was just thinking, in addition to the government, strip clubs may be the type of business organized crime might sometimes be involved in. If I was an investor, I would stay far away if I found out that were the case. It's too bad for us strip club lovers the government is involved here. Our local Indianapolis government shut down a strip club in my suburban area using zoning laws. I'm stuck with going into increasingly bad parts of town to visit a strip club. We also have a growing Hispanic population and there have been a couple of attempts to start a Hispanic strip club nearby but the government won't give the necessary licenses. I like Hispanic dancers and would go there myself if we had one.

"Actually it’s a pretty cash intensive business, if you have legit cash there are much more lucrative returns available ..." If there are more lucrative returns in business A than business B, then there will be more new entrants in business A. This will then drive down profits in business A. High profits are only temporary unless the government becomes involved. You can see this currently with the oil industry. The oil industry is currently making very high profits from high oil prices. Normally, this would attract new inflows of investment to increase production of oil which would then drive down prices. However, the government has given no new permits for large oil refineries since 1977. This government intervention is helping to cause high oil prices. It's not just "greedy corporations" involved here.

It's hard to tell how much of the customer decline is due to the economy, how much is due to new technologies like Tinder and so on. One false assumption people sometimes make is that there is a free market operating in the strip club industry. It is extremely difficult to open a new strip club in most cities. I have no proof of this at all but there is a possibility of local politicians making under the table deals with existing strip clubs to block potential competition. Even without such a deal, current strip club owners benefit from the situation we have now. Little competition, though, leads to declining overall quality of strip clubs. Eventually this leads to fewer strip club visitors. If it was easier to start a new strip club, more new clubs would be built and many of them would drive poorly run currently existing strip clubs out of business. That would improve strip club quality and lead to more business for the industry as a whole.

I normally don't. I'm 65 years old. What kind of a relationship could I have with one of these girls once I am no longer an old guy buying lap dances from them? I'm too old to be a boyfriend and don't care about being a sugar daddy. If any older members here have ever had a post-strip club friendship with one of these girls, I would be interested what that involved and did you or her suggest it. Were you Facebook friends, did you call her occasionally, did you meet and have dinner or something else?

I've had some long-time strippers tell me over the years that strip clubs never really completely recovered from the 2008 recession. I saw a statistic once that the peak number of clubs was before 2008. Here in Indianapolis strip clubs went from 20 in 2010 to 14 now. This recession is likely to be worse than the 2008 recession. The federal government had a ten trillion-dollar debt then. Now it is thirty trillion dollars. To kill inflation, you will need to raise the interest rate to a higher level than the inflation rate. This is what Volcker did in the eighties. If we raise the interest rate to 10% then that is a three trillion dollar a year interest payment on the federal debt. This is happening at the same time all the Boomers are retiring and Social Security/ Medicare spending is increasing while tax receipts are dropping. There is not going to be government bailouts this time like in 2008 because the money isn't there. We may have a full blown depression.

If I am reading this review correctly, it says the ability to pick the $100 dollar option was reduced while the ability to pick the $200 option was increased. With rapidly increasing prices, people are having to cut back on luxuries to pay for more costly necessities. Paying some girl $200 to grind on you is a luxury and there is going to be a reduced demand for that in the future.

I've had lots of regulars but have never told any of them I love them just because they might mis-interpret it as me thinking of them in potential girlfriend terms. I have had a stripper regular say she loved me. I visited her one time when she was in a really bad mood and was extremely unfriendly towards me. The next time I went to see her she was extremely friendly and said she loved me when I left. I think she was surprised I came back after the way she had treated me the previous time and was happy that I did. I've had lots of long-term regulars and when you do that there will inevitably come a day when she is in a really bad mood and mistreats you. You have to decide if you are going to overlook it and keep seeing her.

We didn't have inflation problems until the early nineteen seventies. This was when the U.S. left the Bretton Woods agreement and severed the last link to gold. This allowed the U.S. to print money to cover the increased spending from the Vietnam War and recently enacted Great Society welfare programs. Another bad effect of this decoupling of money from gold, aside from inflation, was that it was this exact moment when we switched to running regular trade deficits. The inflation raised American wages and made American workers increasingly uncompetitive with lower wage foreign workers. The problem here isn't capitalism because we didn't have high inflation and large trade deficits during the previous couple hundred years. The problem was government created.

I think what the original poster may have been getting at is that customers have expectations that are too high. This is a common stripper complaint. Many customers complain that the value they receive is too low if they spend money. What usually happens is that there is a certain amount of compromise between strippers and customers which, while leaving neither side completely happy, both are willing to accept. The ones who can't accept that compromise stop showing up at the strip club. The girls find another job and the guys find another hobby.

I wouldn't go to this club but I'm all for having different types of clubs in the local market, just as you have different types of restaurants serving various cuisines at different price levels. Most strip club owners are unimaginative. That leads to a boring sameness to strip clubs and may be one of the factors in the big decline in the number of strip clubs here in Indianapolis. The local government isn't helping any. They've blocked a new suburban strip club and a new Hispanic strip club here in recent years using their licensing and zoning rules.

The most important issue this country is facing is out of control government spending that has led to our thirty trillion-dollar national debt and rising inflation from all the money printing to pay for the excessive government spending. Both parties are responsible for this. Whichever party is in office, the overspending continues. Since we elect these guys it ultimately our fault. if we really cared about our children and grand children we wouldn't be leaving them crushing debt burden.

I've seen it. At the same time guys have less money and are more reluctant to visit strip clubs our local strip clubs are raising prices, making guys even more reluctant to visit them. In addition to seeing fewer customers, I also see more customers just sitting and drinking and looking at the strippers but not actually spending any money on them.

Most successful clubs are probably in a large city, near a large city or are on a major highway linking two large cities. I live in Indianapolis and have done a lot of traveling but have never had a reason to go through Evansville. It's just a little too far away to make a day trip from Indianapolis. I really would like to visit there some day and probably will. If I do, I will go primarily just to see the city and then visit the strip clubs while there. I've come to the conclusion that it is not worth making a long trip just to go to a strip club.

It's not just customers who cause the occurrence of extras in the club. In a no extras club it will usually be the prettiest dancers or those with a gift for being likeable who make the money. The girls who can't compete in the looks or personality department will sometimes offer extras to try to lure customers away from the no extras girls. I pick regulars on the basis of looks and friendliness and they are often hostile towards the extras girls and want the club to crack down on them. They are often successful at this because they usually have the law on their side. It needs to be pointed out here, though, that these laws are an attempt to interfere with voluntary transactions between consenting adults. They harm strippers who want to sell extras and interfere with their ability to make a living. So, while I personally don't like extras it seems immoral to me to have laws against them. If the girl wants to sell extras, the customer wants to buy extras and the club owner wants to allow them then the local government should stay out of it. There will always be some dancers and customers who don't want to do them and it has been my experience that we will always be able to find each other.

In a number of Indianapolis clubs the female bartender and waitresses are the only attractive women in the club. It should be the exact opposite, since the male customers are going to the club looking for attractive dancers and not attractive bartenders or waitresses.

Leaving the Biden administration right now would be like getting a seat in one of the Titanic's lifeboats.

There are certainly variations in what different men find attractive but mostly female beauty is not that subjective. It's related to female fertility. Men are biologically attracted to signals of this such as waist-hip ratio, smooth skin, glossy hair and so on. Unattractive women have an incentive to try to shame men for being attracted to and going after the women they are naturally attracted to and to pick women they are not attracted to instead.

I look like the type of person who would never make late night trips out to seedy strip clubs but one of my friends says I'm like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He suggested when I go out late at night to strip clubs I should dress like Mr. Hyde and wear a top hat, a cape and carry a cane.