Comments by docsavage (page 35)

One time a stripper demanded to spray my hands before a lap dance. Then she put on a pair of rubber gloves. Then she put a towel on her lap so I would be sitting on the towel instead of her lap. I've done lap dances with hundreds of girls and when you do that you eventually run into an extreme outlier in the area of hygiene.

I'm a local and this girl you describe is not someone I would be happy with. First, I believe the standard price here is $25 so by charging you $30 for a lap dance she is charging you more than average. Second, breast touching is pretty normal here in Indianapolis so her acting uncomfortable with it is not normal. It sounds like she was trying to squeeze as much money out of you as she could by making you buy a vip to touch her tits and then telling you that you had to pay even more for anything more than that. So that's $100 for the lap dances, $250 for the vip, $100 more for more than tit touching in the vip, and then you walked out disappointed after spending $450 total. It may be a case she didn't care because it was her last night, you were a visitor and not a local, and she was never going to see you again and have a chance to get more money from you. It also may be a case it was her last night because she was always that bad and locals found that out and avoided her, so she wasn't making any money as a stripper. You probably should have looked for another girl to spend most of your money on as soon as you found out it was her last night.

What dancers say to my face and what they would say about me to other dancers would probably be somewhat different. I don't think they would be as hostile towards the customers, including me, as they appear on stripper websites like Stripper Web because a lot of that is them blowing off steam. They have to be nicer than they want to be to the customers when they are around so in reaction to that they are harsher towards the customers when they are not around. Their real view of customers is probably halfway between one extreme and the other. What the dancers say to me is I'm less pervy and more respectful than other customers and I never cause them any problems. This is probably true about me not causing problems because my parents said I never caused them any problems growing up and my boss at work says, unlike my coworkers, I never cause her any problems. Dancers also say I look younger than my age of 65. That may even be somewhat true because my mother says I'm unusual for someone my age in still having all my hair and no beer gut, my high school friends say I'm the only person they know who is recognizably the same person as I was in high school, and my coworkers all think I'm younger than I really am.

With a thirty trillion-dollar national debt and high inflation, the economic collapse of the United States is coming. Even big cuts in government spending, including military spending, won't save us. It's too late now for that and it's not going to happen anyway. We have been overly magnifying foreign threats for the last eighty years in order to justify high spending on the military-industrial complex and we are still doing it.

-> "Does your car not obnoxiously beep at you until you put it on? I thought everyone wore one. (At least in America, I know the Chinese don’t)" No, it doesn't beep. Is that because I drive a 20-year-old car I inherited from my mother when she passed away and they just started adding the obnoxious beeping in cars since then? I do wear a seatbelt most of the time but I'm extremely absent minded, so I occasionally forget. The thing I make sure I do 100% of the time is not drink and drive. I would feel just terrible if I caused an accident and injured someone while I was intoxicated.

The Ukraine is an economic basket case, so Putin doesn't have a lot to gain by taking over the whole country. He mainly just wants the parts where a lot of Russian speakers live. We could make a deal where we let him have the Russian parts of the country in exchange for him sending a lot of cute Russian strippers to the U.S. My Indiana Congressional representative is the only Ukrainian American in Congress and is quite hostile to Russia, so I don't think I'll suggest that to her.

The argument about whether vaccines are good for your health and the argument about whether they should be mandated are two separate arguments. Health related laws in this country are not at all consistent. We don't let people drive around without a seatbelt, but we do let them smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and eat a bad diet. If we were to go in a direction where everything that is good for you is required and everything that is bad for you is banned, we would end up with a totalitarian government with no freedom of action for the individual. We need to seriously think about whether that is a direction we want to go in. We generally let people have freedom to make decisions, since the Declaration of Independence gives us a right to liberty. There is also the practical matter that trying to protect people from themselves, i.e. victimless crimes, is difficult. The big experiment that failed here is alcohol prohibition. I don't know about other states, but here in Indiana they don't even work very hard to enforce seatbelt laws. I've been driving almost fifty years and have never had a police officer pull me over to check whether I was wearing a seatbelt. The type of people who don't wear a seatbelt aren't going to start wearing one just because it is illegal. The only reason to mandate a vaccine is if the disease is dangerous and the vaccine prevents disease transmission. We don't mandate flu vaccines since it is not that dangerous for most non-elderly people but we would mandate a vaccine for something like smallpox. Whether a disease like Covid that 99.7% of people under 60 survive and the average age of death is 78 is like smallpox, which kills 30% of people including many young ones, is questionable. Some studies show the Covid vaccine reduces transmission but out in the real world we had record cases this winter with three fourths of all adults already vaccinated. The obvious real-world failure in stopping transmission here is why the mandates are all being dropped now. This is even happening in Democrat states because their internal polling on how they overreacted here is hurting them and is going to help lead to a political blowout in the next election. In the future, we will encourage people in high-risk categories like the elderly to get the Covid vaccine but won't force people to get it.

There are not any dancers I've run into at a club from more than seven years in the past. Both times it was a situation where they left stripping and then came back several years later. Both times they didn't stay very long their second time around. All of my regulars from the past I would have kept seeing because I like having long term regulars, but I have never had one

I've only ever seen one study on stripper incomes and that said the average yearly income is $75,000. That might sound low to someone who spends a lot of time working in clubs in popular tourist cities but there are a lot of average and below average clubs in smaller towns or old Rust Belt cities like Indianapolis where I live. Many of these are clubs where the manager won't allow extras or the girls just don't want to do them. I've had dancers here in my town tell me they can make a thousand in a night but it is mostly just luck when they do. $75,000 a year is really pretty good. The median wage in the U.S. is about half that and only about twenty percent of people have a higher yearly wage than that. It's not a job, though, that is easy to do long term. For every thirty-year-old stripper who started when she was twenty there are probably fifty who didn't last that long.

I liked Rutger Hauer's "Tears in the Rain" speech at the end of Blade Runner. He improvised it on the spot. I also like the ending of Casablanca. They were going to shoot two endings, one where Ingrid Bergman stays with Bogart and one where she flies off with her husband and then pick the best one. After they filmed the first ending, they decided they liked it so much they wouldn't even film the other ending.

I remember thinking in the seventies how things could never get any worse than high inflation, disco music and Jimmy Carter. I was wrong. Now we have high inflation, rap music and a senile version of Jimmy Carter.

I spend under $140 a week on my weekly club visit and am happy enough with my strip club hobby to keep doing it. For me, though, I look at it as just a way to add a little variety in my life. I have developed several hobbies because I'm not the type of person who becomes obsessed with one hobby and this is just one of those several hobbies. The girls seem friendly enough with my level of spending. I did a couple dances Wednesday with a girl and later on she came over to my table and told me she was bored and asked if she could sit with me. Whether or not you enjoy this hobby depends as much on what you are looking for as what you are spending. If you are looking for sex and are under fifty then working out and improving your looks would be a good way to go. If you work out, keep your weight normal and eat a good diet not only is it easier to get the attention of women but you also will feel better, have lower medical bills and will end up living longer. I started my strip club hobby after fifty when my girlfriend was pressuring me to let her move in with me and I realized I would rather have her dump me than have her living with me.

The success of those two movies set off a whole wave of seventies blaxploitation movies. I went one time to see one of them, "Hot Potato", at the Uptown theater here in Indianapolis with a friend and we were the only two white people in the theater. Everyone stared at us when we walked in but left us alone. Eddie Murphy recently starred in a comedy, "Dolemite is My Name", about the making of a blaxploitation movie where one of the scenes in the movie takes place in this exact same Indianapolis theater.

Catching your button on a stripper's fishnet stockings is usually a sign you are dealing with an inexperienced stripper. It's happened to me three times over the years so if I see fishnet stockings on her I now let her know ahead of time about the potential dangers involved.

The Covid reaction is part of the larger issue of medical freedom. The medical monopoly is enforced by the government. It's the government that decides who is and isn't a doctor. Government officials at the top making that decision, or choosing those below them who make the decision, are picked by voters. So, ultimately, it is the average voter making the decision here. There is no reason to think the average voter has a right to decide what medical choices I or anyone else get to have. This country was based on the idea of freedom and individual rights. It was not meant to be an unlimited democracy. It was the widespread belief in the idea of freedom and individual rights that made this country the most prosperous country in history and it is the moving away from that idea that is causing our slow decline.

Most reviews I read, in situations where I am familiar with the club, seem pretty accurate. When a specific dancer is mentioned, though, that is sometimes not accurate. Rather than false advertising, I think that is more a situation where the male reviewer has different tastes than me. So, if he uses descriptive adjectives like "hot" I may or may not agree with that. Some of the reviews, though, are written by dancers or club managers. Those are about as accurate as strip club websites with photos of 20 year old models but, when you go to the actual club, it's all 30 year old overweight single moms.

"When I was in my 20s, strip clubs frustrated me. All these cute girls would flirt with me, act like they liked me. But then didn't want to see me outside the club." I never went to strip clubs when I was young so I always like hearing comments about experiences like the one left by Warrior15 above. It doesn't sound like I missed much because the girls would still be the same fake friendly when I did start going in my fifties.

I think the backlash will come when people realize this was all done by government bureaucrats to increase profits for Big Pharma. Is it just totally a coincidence that the government approved inadequately tested and possibly dangerous patented drugs and vaccines Big Pharma could make more money from while blocking cheap expired patent drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin they could make little in the way of profits from? I'm not enough of a fool to believe that but anyone who thinks that you can convince intelligent people of that is a fool. According to Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Pierre Kory, both of whom treated multiple patients using early treatment programs, we might have saved hundreds of thousands of lives if those early treatment programs had been widely adopted. Instead, people were told to wait until they couldn't breathe and then go to the hospital. In many cases, that was too late to save them. Not only were these early treatment programs not adopted, but information about their usefulness was also suppressed. Government officials told the media they needed to do more to stop "misinformation". Government has tax and regulatory powers they can use to punish anyone who doesn't toe the line so there was an implied threat here. Because of first amendment rights to freedom of speech and press, they should not have acted this way.

Last July Jen Psaki said in a White House press conference that we would have 2.2% inflation now. Instead, it is 7.5%. Inflation is likely to be much higher in the future than most predictions. To end it would require interest rates higher than the inflation rate and the tiny rate hikes planned aren't going to do it. Extremely high inflation is going to lead to something like Weimar Germany. Planning for tomorrow by saving money and making prudent investments won't work. People will adopt a "live for today" attitude and engage in a more decadent lifestyle. This probably will be good for strip clubs but will not be good for the long-term health of society. People will spend money as soon as they get it or gamble in the stock market casino if they have excess cash. Eventually the stock market will crash. When that happens there will be widespread misery and the rise of extremist political movements, both of the right and the left.

I wouldn't do this. I'm very aware that I'm 65 years old and the dancers are only putting up with an old guy like me for the income, so I have no great desire to spend a lot of time with them or buy them meals, presents etc. I had one dancer in the past I became attached to because she worked in the closest club to where I live and was there for six years. All the nearby clubs have declined a great deal and I don't think I would run into someone I really like in them now and, if I did, she wouldn't stay around six years. I still have favorites but I rotate around several different clubs and only see each of my favorites about once a month.

What this epidemic did was expose the poor health among many Americans. Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, and the media have combined to encourage people to eat too much food and the wrong types of food. Combined with lack of exercise, this has led people to be more susceptible to many health problems like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and now Covid. The solution to all diet and lifestyle related health problems are expensive patented drugs and vaccines, according to the medical establishment and the big federal health agencies like the FDA, CDC and NIH. Until we fix this broken model of health care in this country, we will continue to have poor health among the population.

Here in Indianapolis some of the clubs went bankrupt but were later bought up by others. The people owning them at the time of the shutdowns were unfortunate but the people who bought them up later were lucky. The same thing happened here with other businesses. For example, my three favorite local hamburger joints went under, but all the big fast-food chains survived. Local shops closed for good but Bezos got richer along with the owners of Walmart, which was allowed to stay open since it sold food along with its other goods. I feel sympathy for all the small business owners who lost their investments. A new John Hopkins study shows that the lockdowns didn't work and not even Jen Psaki was willing to support them when recently asked about them. The Democrats know that a major reason for their poor polling is their over-reaction to the pandemic and the damage that over-reaction caused.

I don't know much about pimps but it was my understanding that a pimp provides security for a girl in exchange for a cut of the money. In a strip club, the club provides the security and the girl gives the club a percentage of her income. In any issue between the girl and a customer, I feel like a club would be more impartial than a pimp and not favor the strippers over the customers because they want the long-term business of the customers. They would do this because they have large sunk costs in long term fixed assets like the building and any furnishings inside the building plus the land the building sits on and they want to protect this big investment. Most customers would be aware of this and favor the clubs providing any security needed.

A new poll conducted by the Angus Reid Institute shows that the majority (54%) of Canadians now say they want all COVID restrictions to end. This is an increase of 15-points since early January. The institute points out that many Canadians now feel that they want to manage their own level of risk instead of having government do it for them. https://thepulse.one/2022/02/04/new-poll-more-than-20-million-canadians-54-want-all-covid-restrictions-to-end-now/

I once had a stripper unbutton my shirt and then bite one of my nipples. It hurt so much I let out a scream. I'm not sure it was really an accident because she then grinned at me.