Comments by canny (page 21)

I guarantee that the candidates who campaign on "family values" platforms will be patronizing the strip clubs. The more vocal they are about family values, the more time they'll spend in the strip clubs.

I hear that the poor economy is starting to hit the strip clubs too. Men who used to get private rooms are getting lap dances instead. I know a couple of strippers who are working more days a week this year than they did last year and are earning half as much. The dancers are chasing tips because they're hurting for money the same way the rest of the country is.

I was talking with a brand new stripper, it was her first night, and the woman who works the door this weekend and the woman who works the door advised the new stripper to avoid the guys who come in wearing suits because they don't spend any money. Business casual, yes. Jeans, yes. Suits and ties, no.

And no nagging by the dancers to buy them drinks.

Start a foundation, name it the PL Foundation and go through the paperwork to make donations to it tax deductible and then have the foundation pay for your visits to the strip clubs. Use the foundation's credit card to pay.

The part of this that is a crime, even though it's a legal crime, is how much of that money makes it to the artists. Copyright is written into the Constitution to protect artists who create art. It's used today to enrich the huge entertainment businesses who turn around and give a few pennies to the artists. Compared to the way the non-adult entertainment industry takes advantage of the performers, strippers get to keep a huge percentage of what they earn.

A few other Pennsylvania clubs give away free drinks too, more than just beer. They can't get liquor licenses and Pa's laws are written so that they only apply to selling alcohol, not serving it. It's legal for any business to give alcohol away as long as they don't give it to anyone under 21, they just need a liquor license to sell it.

If you are self employed, receipts are not needed for entertainment expenses (meals) that are below a certain dollar figure. I keep all receipts and report the exact dollar amount to the penny because I'm not willing to risk making a mistake, but if you do something on the side like mow lawns and you report your revenue you can also report a lot of expenses.

I agree with Stiletto25. I tip based on how good the service is. If the service, or dance, or stage dance, is bad, no tip. If whatever is great, I give a bigger tip.

Free parking, a reasonable cover, and give the dancers free drinks so they aren't hitting us up to buy them drinks. Have alcohol available. If you can't get a license to sell alcohol and it's illegal to give people free drinks like the clubs in Pennsylvania do, set up next door to a bar, beer distributor, or someplace else that sells alcohol. Even if you can't serve drinks to your customers, take care of the dancers. Many of them will earn you more money if they're drunk than if they're sober. Keep the sound system loud enough that someone a couple of feet away from me can't listen in on my conversation and soft enough that I can have a conversation with a dancer without shouting into her ear. Security is important. Have video cameras everywhere public and make them visible. Don't hide them, put them in white, weatherproof domes and have a prominent sign at the front door telling everyone that the cameras are there. Don't put them in the private areas such as the lap dance rooms but put them everywhere else. If I get assaulted in the club, which has almost happened to me before, I want the whole incident to be caught on video so that I don't get thrown out and if the cops are called I don't have charges filed against me. Hire good bouncers. Bouncers are for my protection as a customer as much as they're for the protection of the club and the dancers. Make the private rooms private. Sound proof them and put doors on them. Make the lap dance area semi-private by having curtains that are drawn closed during lap dances too. See my comments on security, have bouncers in the areas where dances happen so that when a customer goes too far the dancers can call for help. Also, don't put locks on the doors and keep the sound proofing light enough that the bouncers can hear the girls calling for help through the doors. Make the club non-smoking and make half of the VIP rooms non-smoking and have a separate ventilation system for the smoking ones. You'll want to have an area in the club where smokers can smoke inside, but keep the rest smoke free. I don't smoke, and I like being in a non-smoking club, but when I go to clubs where smoking is allowed I see a lot of customers smoking. You want to attract every customer, not just smokers or non-smokers.

Me three. I especially abhor the ones who campaign on family values and get caught doing the exact opposite.

$400,000 per rescued child? When the children don't start until they're 15? It costs less than $750k to raise a child from birth to paying for college. It would be cheaper to just raise the children who are underage prostitutes and send them to college than what we're paying now!

I'm surprised that so few of them have pimps.

Yeah, anything that happens during a dance should be consented to by both parties first.

The stripper who had an orgasm with me used her fingers and it was in the VIP. It wasn't a LD.

Double standards. I know a stripper who does the same thing.

Are the dances happening out in the open? I don't want people watching me so I pay for private rooms instead of lap dances, but if I get a lap dance...anyone there can watch.

A friend of mine told me about a stripper who stopped stripping when her 17 year old son came into the club where she was working. Fortunately she saw him before he saw her and she slipped out the back door.....

My favorite is a stripper who was completely honest. She said, "I hate my job."

I've had a stripper squirt twice during a private room, so she definitely enjoyed what she was doing. I've also had dances from strippers who obviously were not enjoying what they were doing in the slightest. @Stiletto, it's uncomfortable for us if you grind too hard too. I prefer soft "grinding" that won't hurt the dancer when she's nude, but that's also harder for them because they can't "rest" on me. I suspect it's a no win for you.

It's in a small town, but there is a local police department and it isn't a single full time cop and 2 or 3 part timers. I'm not going back there for a few months, I don't want to be sitting in the club having a beer when the cops raid the club.

I've been there and there really is an employee whose job is to unlock the doors to the private rooms. They're one room efficiency apartments, if Gloria's get's shut down by the cops after that review they can always rent out the private rooms as apartments.

I think you're pretty much out of luck. I doubt that any club in Pittsburgh is going to show the pay-per-view UFC fights and even if they do they all keep the volume on their TV's set to mute.

The laws are slightly different in Pennsylvania. There is a 4 year window for sex being legal under the age of 16 which basically makes it legal for a high school senior to have sex with a high school freshman. It is legal to have sex with someone who is 16, but that person's parents can press charges for contributing to the delinquency of a minor which is a misdemeanor and can result in jail time. The only positive is that charge doesn't include being required to register as a sex offender and the underage sex one does come with that requirement. For certified teachers, it's a different ballgame. Teachers who have teaching certificates will lose their certificate to teach if they have sex with a student, even if that student is over the age of 18 and the teacher is a first year teacher who is only 22. There is an imbalance of power between any teacher and any student which is why I fully support those laws. It is difficult for a student to say no to a teacher, and that's why these laws are passed, to protect students from unscrupulous teachers who abuse their authority. I think that a teacher who has sex with a student, even one who is old enough that it is legal for me to have sex with her, will also face criminal charges, but I'm not positive about that. I just know that a local teacher lost his teaching certificate about 3 or 4 years ago and he was 23 or 24 and the girls were both 18 and they approached him and drove to his house. He was quoted in the newspaper as saying that he didn't think he was doing anything wrong because they approached him, they were both over 18, and they drove to his house. College professors are the same as the rest of us though. There isn't anything other than policies at the colleges where they work that prevents them from having sex with students. The laws are different in every state. I know Pennsylvania's because that's where I live and I've taken a law enforcement class where this was covered.

There are many reasons why reporting all of your income on your taxes is a good thing. When you're an independent contractor, keep good records of everything and deduct everything that's legal. @Clubber, if your ATF had been reporting her revenue to the IRS and deducting everything that she could, she could have written a check for her new truck and the investigators from the IRS would have checked out what she does, checked her income tax returns, and ignored her and moved on to the next person.