HedonistBG

You sound like you are probably too young to have experienced it, so, FYI, Landing Strip got famous in the 80s-90s when there were scores of 9-10s who danced there and you could get lap dances for $20 a pop. Full contact lap dances were still a relatively new phenomenon then, and most mongers were happy to get them from gorgeous young women without obsessing about getting "extras"; you could easily spend the night getting dances from 10 or more gorgeous dancers and leave very happy. Most of the dances took place upstairs and in the main stage room – unlike now when you go down to the basement. It was almost more like a nightclub back then. Then there were police crackdowns throughout Wayne county and elsewhere in Michigan even on simple full contact lap dances, and it has never really been the same since. Though the crackdown eventually passed, law enforcement now is basically nonexistent, and the club has really just become an expensive brothel. Dancer talent has gone way down IMO–and that is typical of brothels. The interior also looks shabbier and more like a dive than a nightclub. Might still be the best of the area clubs, but it is a shadow of what it once was as far as I'm concerned.

Why cheaper? Germany because it's legal, and Colombia and Mexico because it's legal and the alternatives for women pay much less than what by US standards would be low prices. Brazil for the last reason. Legality affects prices in a simple way--a sex worker will ask herself how much do I have to earn for this to be worth my while? If it involves risk of arrest, then obviously they are going need to earn more for them to be willing to take the risk.

@squarecastle "the odds of getting a serious STD in a sc are actually quite low in comparison with say taking a girl home from a nightclub" LOL. Is that based on your survey of strip club patrons and participants in night club hook ups?

Was visiting from out of town and got scammed at Yellow Rose a few years back after I agreed to private dances with one dancer. Nobody told me before I took the dancer in there that the "cabanas" are extra or what the price was. But they forced me to pay $100 afterwards because they took my driver's license before I went (and I was drunk, so forgot they didn't give it back). And then while the dancer was stroking me, some waitress comes in and wants me to sign a paper that authorizes charges to my credit card for whatever--talk about putting me at a disadvantage! They were basically operating like an old-fashioned clip joint and should have been thrown in jail as far as I'm concerned. I wound up having to call the cops to get my driver's license back, but of course he took them at their word against an out-of-towner that I owed them $100, so I lost that.

Obamacare is great. Don't have to worry about being denied health insurance for pre-existing conditions any more. (Unless the orange bozo and his party succeed in duping enough voters again and repeal it; their dire predictions about Obamacare have all proven to be absurd.) Insurance marketplaces make it much easier to compare plans. You can also research doctors online now before selecting one to check their credentials and patient ratings. Online research has helped me pick pcp's who are patient focused. My pcp's are all very responsive to emails--and it's great to be able to communicate with them like that. In the old days, you'd have to make another appt just to ask a question. However, insurance companies are getting trickier about evading the law though about what they are supposed to cover and making people pay out of pocket for preventive care; should be able to clamp down on them if the democrats get back in control of congress.