TCabot

I too miss the 1320 club.

The restaurant example is a false equivalency. Yea, the restaurant owners are banking off the fact that we all need to eat. Not where I draw the issue. The issue is two things: 1. There is actual materials and trainable skills expended in each unit of food produced. Most SWers just have to be not an obese female (and even then that’s questionable) to make a profit. Yes, strippers do need to be able to dance, but that’s just a small slice of the job. And simply having a vagina and photographing it is basically enough to make $ on OF. 2. There is something “more” to faking affection for someone. I know that my business with McDonald’s for food is purely transactional. And that’s fine. With a SWer the line gets blurred. Either in the PL’s head or because the SWer whispers manipulative sweet nothings to keep the cash flowing. There’s something more malicious about exploiting men’s feelings than our shared collective appetites/hunger.

I would argue in this same vein that strippers (and SWers) are not the same as other women too. Most women don’t outright commoditize their bodies for men. Most women don’t try to profit off of a man’s natural urges for sex, intimacy, and more simply, female attention and validation. To me, SWers, while they have their benefits, also prey on those natural urges and (some) exploit men for profit. That to me somewhere seems ethically questionable at the bare minimum. This is why I think if you’re going to say PLs aren’t the same as most men then it’s absolutely fair to say strippers (and other SWers) are not the same as most ordinary women.

Skibum, why do strippers feel the need to treat customers as somehow different than other men?

Golden Horseshoe in WV definitely is doing this. Nights only, Wednesday through Sunday. Clubs like Lust, Paper Moon, and Crystal City though are all open day/night seven days a week. Probably because they have the customer base and resources to sustain break even or net negative business days. I have noticed though that all of these clubs are hiring mid tier to ugly girls who still expect tons of money and to be treated like queens. It’s absurd they’re charging the same or more while giving us uglier women!