Comments by Papi_Chulo (page 34)

Admitting you’ve never been to a strip-club (or saying it’s ur first time in a particular strip club) is like going to a car-dealer and telling the sales-person u don’t know anything about cars; it’s an easy-way to get ripped-off. w.r.t. over-counting songs/dances, it happens in many clubs – as a custy in a strip-club u have to look after yourself b/c the girls are looking out after themselve$ - to avoid being over-counted either: 1) tell the dancer upfront to let u know every time she starts a new-song or 2) use the stopwatch on ur cellphone to keep track of songs – songs avg about 3.5 minutes so if u get dances for let’s say 10-minutes then ur can be pretty sure u did 3-songs If u don’t learn how to push-back then expect to keep getting ripped-off even if it’s not a Cuban-dancer (dancers over-count b/c too many custies don’t push back and just pay up; it’s like taking candy from a baby and the ROB dancers know this and why they keep on doing it).

There’s no difference b/w the $25 dance and the “4-for-$100”; they are both in the “VIP room” – so no reason to do 4-for-$100 since it’s the same dance in the same-room – floor/table dances are $10 but seems not many dancers do the $10 floor/table dances these days – so one is kinda getting ripped-off agreeing to 4-for-$100 b/c there is no upside to it; actually only downside b/c one ends up w/ the situation u ended up in of not being happy w/ the dances but being stuck having agreed to 4-dances upfront for no good-reason – actually it’s always been 5-for-$100 but seems the girls are colluding by not informing custies the multi-dance special is actually 5-for-$100; so u have clueless-custies agreeing to multiple-songs for no-reason and not saving any $$$ and if anything losing out by needlessly agreeing to 4-for-$100. Best thing to do is agree to one-dance and if u like the dancer then subsequently ask her for the 5-for-$100 special (if u wanna do that many dances).

Good review - was wondering why this club wasn't getting many reviews as of late (only 2nd-review this year) - seems u got decent-ROI

This is a story/reminiscing, not a review; which is fine bc many of us like to reminisce; but it should have been submitted as a TUSCL-article or a discussion-thread in the club's TUSCL Discussion page.

If "different environment" means a higher-mileage-club; yeah I guess although I don't recall that thought going thru my mind in the past since it's unlikely I'd be in a low-mileage-club to begin with - but the "different environment" thing may be a bit of wishful thinking b/c perhaps there's a high likelihood a dancer like that would not work in a higher-mileage-club to begin with.

I don't pay more than the club price - IME more often than not dancers that overcharge tend to also under-deliver (give subpar dances) - $40 is already too-expensive for what is often a 3-or-so-minute dance - at $40/dance I become extremely-picky w.r.t. who I may get a dance from if I get any at all. It'd be interesting to know the house-fees these dancers pay the club (other than the $5/dance club-fee) that would justify those high-dance-prices.

Not many foot-fetishers have come out on the board but then again pre-LDK82 we didn't know there were so many LDKers

Dancers typically have more flexible-schedules so perhaps they can afford to live further out from the city-center where it may be cheaper (assuming they have a car for transportation). When I lived in Dallas I knew dancers that lived in smaller towns farther away where it was supa-cheap (at least back then) - I knew some dancers that would even drive-down from OKC and stay (in friend's houses) and dance the weekends.

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“… The widespread adoption of GPS and the addition of mapping features in TUSCL have since made finding clubs even easier …” Oh yes – GPS was a godsend – certain clubs are in industrial-areas or o/w hard-to-find especially at night – pre-GPS sometimes one would have to give up on a club b/c one couldn’t find it; or one would have to do a dry-run in the daylight to make sure one could find it when they visited at night – and of course; GPS feels indispensable when in a different/unknown city – I would’ve had a hell of a tough-time finding clubs in ATL when I visited there pre-Covid especially since I usually visited multiple clubs in one trip that were pretty-spread-out over metro-Atlanta.

For the most part I think TUSCL has gotten better w/ time both due to more/better amount-of-content; and refinements @Founder has done to the website – yeah there may be a bit too-much flaming on the board, and IMO @Founder can do so more tweaks to the site, but I think it’s gotten better overall w/ time.

I'd say at most 3-months "on average" - as was mentioned above if it's a club that doesn't get a lot of reviews then one can give more slack in terms of timing and quality of the review - if it's a club that is reviewed frequently and w/ good reviews, then probably less-slack in terms of tardiness and quality. if it's a good/well-written 3-month-old review of a well-reviewed reviewed club I'd probably approve it - if it's a so-so 3-month-old review of a well-reviewed club then I may be more apt to decline-it - if it's a so-so/ok 3-month-old review of a club not reviewed much I'll likely approve it.

When I went to college I'd say 90% of my learning I did on my own (via books etc) - most "professors" sucked - even the ones that knew their stuff didn't know how to teach nor seemed to care-about/want/like teaching - I feel I mostly paid for a piece-of-paper. I think with the internet today it may be possible to better-learn and/or have access to better instructors.

AFAIK prostitution is legal in many places in Europe so I'd assume making Seeking probably not worthwhile (for getting laid) but I could be wrong. Venezuela borders Colombia so there are a good # of them in Colombia - I def like the way many Venezuelan women look but IME they haven't had the best attitudes - Colombianas otoh I've found mostly pleasant.

Back in 2020 she was one of the libs posting to defund the police - she was then ridiculed online for calling the police to her home after she thought she'd heard a noise in her backyard - easy to say defund-the-police till you think you need them and easy to say if you live in a safe upscale neighborhood like she probably does.

I rarely watch sporting-events live these-days - I normally record them and watch them later (sometimes when the game has started the 2nd-half) - I do this to get thru the game quicker by fast-forwarding thru the commercials and halftime - but the Thanksgiving weekend kinda threw me off and I forgot to record the game which I intended to watch so I didn't get to watch it. I pull for Michigan mainly b/c I'm a Jim Harbaugh fan.

I’ve had this happen on occasion over-the-years, but def not a common-thing. As has been posted in the past, dancers in clubs sometimes form cliques; or there is drama among some of them – so this can be part of it – also, some girls may be worried if a regular-of-hers is getting w/ a dancer(s) that may have an extra-bad-rep in the club in terms of her sexual-activities and perhaps the dancer asking may be concerned for herself. Everyone subconsciously knows, or learns, that strip-clubs are to be treated as a “hear-no-evil see-no-evil” environments; but some dancers get extra-comfortable w/ regulars to where they feel they can do/say things they normally wouldn’t with a random-custy – also, at the end-of-the-day, one is dealing w/ women whom often don’t think/feel like the avg guy (not to mention they are in a different perhaps at times vulnerable situation being the service-provider).

w.r.t. how much it’s changed strip-clubs; kinda hard to say – perhaps it’s changed recently; but over-the-years most dancers at clubs seemed clueless about the existence of TUSCL (or any particular strip-club-related site) – and as others have mentioned, seems TUSCLers are a small-niche of the SC-cuties (again maybe this has changed in recent years?) – there are also other variables such as local-ordinances that have the biggest effect on how SCs operate. Again – hard to quantify how much of an impact TUSCL has had but I assume it’s a small impact at most except maybe in some specific cases of a particular club that happens to be popular w/ TUSCLers and that somehow served to tilt the club towards TUSCL-type mileage/expectations – but again I think it’s often other factors (ownership; management; loosened/less-enforced local-ordinances; etc) – as well as clubs that have gotten a Cubana-invasion where in many cases the Cubanas have made mileage higher to much-higher. On a personal PL-level; I def became a more hardcore SCer after I joined TUSCL and my PL-eyes were more-opened to the possibilities – also good-chance Follies would have never gotten-on-my-radar if it wasn’t for TUSCL and more specifically b/c of @shadowcat (as well as good-chance other out-of-area clubs that I’ve enjoyed would have not gotten on my radar if it wasn’t for TUSCL - e.g. the old “Inner Room” in Cocoa Beach etc etc). TUSCL has been a great help in finding clubs *I* like; but also helping me not waste time and $$$ over and over again in clubs that were not a good fit – if it wasn’t for TUSCL I doubt I would have clubbed as much as I did in the last-few-years and bit-higher-chance I may have given up the hobby earlier b/c lack-of-info may have led to “the juice not being worth the squeeze” (i.e. many guys have given up early-on b/c they’ve hit shitty or poor ROI clubs; etc).

I started hitting Atl and Blaze from-out-of-town back in 2014 – but it did feel to me that the club started taking a dip towards the latter part of the 2010s (almost all my Blaze visits were on dayshift since I was mostly a dayshift SCer, and at night they would charge too-much for parking and cover). My fave part about Blaze was that (at least back-then) it usually had a lot of dancers on dayshift particularly in the late-afternoon which is when I mostly visited. My last Blaze visit was pre-Covid circa October 2019 – it was probably the first time I left Blaze w/o feeling I got at least some good-dances from at least a couple of dancers – in my last visit I didn’t find many dancers to my liking (hardly any thick girls) – on that visit I only got with one girl which is rare for me being a variety-guy – and the only reason I got with that one-only girl in my last-visit was b/c she was kinda-pushy and I thought I’d give her a try thinking she may put in a good-effort on the dances given how desperate it seemed she wanted to sell for dances – she was not my type (skinny with not much tits or ass) but since I’d been there for about 45--minutes and hadn’t gotten any dances (rare for me) I thought “what the hell” – this chick turned-out to be the stripper-from-hell and tried to overcharge me and even tried to get a bouncer to throw me out of the club for not paying her overcharge (paid her what I owed her but she wanted way more) – it got heated and eventually another bouncer and the manager came over – they took her to the side and she started getting into it with them and then I saw them walking all together towards the club’s office – at that point I’d had enough and called it a visit but it was by far the worst Blaze visit I’d ever had (and the mood in the club just seemed off that day with girls arguing w/ each other etc) – all this to say that perhaps what you experienced may be the way Blaze is trending given my last visit there in late-2019 (perhaps Blaze is in part living off its past reputation). w.r.t. mileage – it’s always been hit-or-miss here for me – this club is the reason I had to institute a “dancer interview” b/f getting dances b/c being a variety-guy in the past I’d agree to dances from many different dancers and half them were turning out to be air-dances or “I don’ like being touched dances” – thus after a couple of Blaze visits I started instituting the “pre-dance interview” – if a dancer asked me for dances I’d first ask: 1) do you grind? 2) do you mind your boobs being touched? If I didn’t get a “yes” to both then I’d pass and this helped me stop wasting my $$$ and time w/ dancers that gave dances I didn’t like. P.S. A lot of ATL clubs are air-dance-clubs so many of the girls are kinda used to that and expect the same thing in contact-clubs like Blaze

^ "... although per recent-reviews it seems many of the girls are not honoring the 5 this ..." Meant to type "seems many of the girls are not honoring the 5-for-$100 (or at least they are not making the custies aware of it)"

"... Agreed to the $100 for 4 dances in the back ..." Dances are $25/song; so no point in agreeing to 4 dances upfront in case one ends up w/ a dud or a dancer one doesn't like or one just wants to move-on after 2-songs and try other girls (the 4-for-$100 is not some kinda club mandated pricing or anything). And has been mentioned; in the past it was either $25/song or 5-for-$100 although per recent-reviews it seems many of the girls are not honoring the 5 this but as was mentioned above if a custy states the special decent chance of getting it since the dancer-competition here is pretty-fierce).

There's a difference b/w a tip-parade and “abusing a tip-parade”. The tip-parade “should” be for when a dancer that was on stage gets off and does the rounds – but in some clubs the dancers abuse the tip-parade and circle the club CONSTANTLY asking for tips – in clubs like this the dancers keep doing it b/c although many custies don’t like-i and complain (in reviews), many of these custies still reach into their pockets every 15-seconds and give the dancers $$$ - so in a way the custies are the ones perpetuating the behavior. There’s a few Latina-clubs downhere in Miami that are notorious for over-the-top tip-parades where the same girls circle the club all-night-long asking for tips even if they haven’t been on-stage – if a club has a tip-parade I’ll “try to work with it” meaning if it’s the dancers that just got off-stage circling for tips – but if I’m getting approached 4 or 5 times during a song; or if I pay attention and notice the girls asking for tips are not the ones that just got off-stage; I stop tipping (except the ones that I like). The dancers abuse the tip-parade b/c the avg custy is either clueless or feels pressured so the dancers take advantage – when I hit a tip-parade-club I’ll tip a bit at first; but once I notice it’s more of a scam (vs just the girl that got off-stage) I stop tipping (I just say "no-thanks I'm good" and 99% of the time they just move-on b/c they know they’re running a racket) – in clubs where I mostly-stop tipping the abusive tip-parade, the dancers will still give me dances and take my $$$ for that (i.e. unlikely one will get blackballed and not be able to get dances b/c one is not bending-the-knee to the tip-parade).

Baby Dolls Dallas, at least pre-Covid (not sure if they still do but I think they do), had “customer appreciation day” I think the 3rd-Thursday of every month – not sure what it included but I once unsuspectedly hit the club on a late-afternoon around 5pm on a customer appreciation Thursday and the club was PACKED – this was in the late-2000s when I was living in Dallas – I didn’t club as much then and rarely on dayshift – in the 10-years I lived in Dallas from 2000 to ~2010 I went to Baby Dolls only a handful of times on dayshift and although it wasn’t dead it was usually fairly-slow (this was pre the Cubana-invasion which started circa 2015 I think) – anyway for w/e reason I happened to do a rare post-work visit and the club was packed like it was a Saturday night – after a while I asked one of the dancers why it was so packed and that is when she filled-me-in that it was customer-appreciation-Thursday – AFAIK there wasn’t a cover on dayshift back-then even on customer-appreciation-day – IDK what perks they offered but I assume it was either open-bar or heavily-discounted drinks but the club felt more like a regular-bar w/ custies that were there mainly for the perks vs for strip-clubbing – it was just too-damn-crowded to have a good-time and I left shortly after arriving. It seems many of these customer appreciation events often attract free-loaders taking-up-space and diminishing the strip-club-experience for those that are there to strip-club vs being there to get free shit.

90% of this, if not more, is on you. As I often post, strip-clubs are bizarro-world and often operate differently than the real-world – as a strip-club-custy one needs to know how to say “no” and be comfortable saying-it – some of these girls will get away w/ as much as the custy lets them get away with and if you don’t set the boundaries they’ll set them for you, o/w take you for a dweeb they can control/manipulate. Also – as a custy if you don’t set boundaries, this will often cause drama among the girls – some of these girls get territorial (some custies as well) - if there are other dancers you wanna get with but don’t, or think you can’t, b/c of the regular-dancer you get with, then that is on you (the girl is just looking out for her best intere$t) - also it's kinda an "unwritten rule" that dancers will not mess-with/approach custies that are known to be the regular of 'X' dancer; so it's up to you to overcome that unwritten-rule b/c o/w this will cause drama in the club among-the-dancers. If this is an issue, then you need to come up with a plan ahead of time b/f you get to the club of how to handle this vs trying to do so on the spot if you’re uncomfortable doing-it – my go-to is to tell them something like “I don’t’ like getting dances w/ the same girls every time I come to the club”; or something like that – dancers know that most custies like to “play the field” but some dancers will try to put the custy on the spot or prevent him from doing so b/c it affects her bottom-line. The more you let this go-on the worse it usually gets – some PLs are so afraid of “offending a dancer they know” that they opt for avoiding a club they like and hit other clubs.

There are all kinds of custies; some seem to enjoy the crazy-shit, drama, and crazy-lives many of these girls lead. When I hit the club I don’t wanna hear about anyone’s problems/drama; I’m there to have a good-time and be entertained – if a dancer starts w/ her drama that is usually a boner-killer for me and I’m less inclined to spend $$$ on her b/c that is not what I’m there for – I try to not get into personal-stuff or ask personal-stuff b/c it can lead to her “opening up” w/ all her issues which I often find sad and/or depressing. A couple of years ago I was sorta hanging w/ a dancer I had gotten with in past visits but my no means was I a regular of hers – anyway she was pretty-easy-going – I had gotten dances w/ her on this visit and I usually move-on to another dancer after I’ve gotten my dances w/ a dancer vs hanging w/ her afterwards; but this particular dancer came to hang w/ me a while after I had gotten dances w/ her (this club was a dive and not necessarily known for big-spenders particularly at night) – by the time she had come back to where I was sitting she’d had a few drinks in her – we are talking then all of a sudden she gets misty-eyed and tells me how her 18 y/o brother may be going away to prison for a long-time for having shot somebody – yeah I felt for her and her body-language made it seem like she was being honest about the situation; but damn, not what I wanna hear when I’m hitting a club and why I avoid getting too-personal and usually keep convos generic.