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I had been thinking of making this its own thread or even an article, but I'll at least preview here. I visited a downtown club after a work dinner on Monday. This particular club basically has no competition within an hour's travel for good dances on Mondays due to the better suburban clubs being closed and its neighbor only offering air dances unless you spend huge $$ on a room. The club has fixed pricing at $30/song which is pretty much inline with the majority of clubs within an hour and a half (some cheaper and some more expensive, but most at $30 after two recently went from $25 to $30). They had five dancers working and 15-20 customers. One dancer never left the side of the customer she was with, so I imagine she did fine on the night. Two of the others said they were charging $50 a song or $650-700 for a half hour. Another (who never even took her top off on stage, and I imagine is generally uncomfortable with her job) said "30 a song, but $20 top per song for touching." All three were attractive enough, but between them they sold a single song and zero rooms in the 90 minutes I was in the club. The final dancer seemed really buzzed, but she only charged $30 a song. I passed on her due to how high she seemed, but she did manage to sell several dances. This isn't a stage oriented club and drinks are way above normal bar prices here; so people were there to buy dances. This is about as clear a market failure as one can directly observe.

@ClubFan81077 -- Hard disagree. Dancers setting their own prices for dances is a terrible experience for customers. It makes buying a lap dance similar to the car buying experience: a shit one. In terms of clubs continuing to raise prices: the cheaper per song clubs near me are much busier than the expensive fixed price and set-your-own price ones based on TUSCL reviews and my annual checkup on the shit clubs. I can easily see the better priced clubs that haven't already raised prices going up a bit, but I can also see the more expensive clubs walking it back. Inflation is no longe rampantly out of control, and some other forms of expensive entertainment are actually falling in price, so who knows.

Don't care.

One thing I learned in Oregon is that you should always pass on dancers that up-charge over the going rate. It doesn't matter how hot they are, they almost certainly will provide a worse dance than the dancers that just ask for the going rate. It is kind of sad, because if paying more got you a better experience, it would be worth it. However, the up-charge seems to serve as a very accurate bad dance signal. Its not just Oregon either: there was a long thread about dancers at a Providence club that were demanding extra a few months back. Also, FWIW, hotness and up-charging aren't really correlated in my experience; it is completely random.

Sweet Illusions is quite grindy for $20 or $25 (we'll see if the price increase holds)

The maps feature is great. If the maps page could include any/all of dance prices, ID Scan warnings, and hours it would be quite helpful. I second the idea of state specific forums, but I wonder if metro/regions would be better? E.g. South Jersey and Philly are sorta the same market, but Pittsburg isn't. Likewise, New England would only need one board not six.

No. Very very much not the norm. I never experienced one there, but they are rumored to exist at Acropolis. If you happen to be near Acropolis, just drive a little further and go to Gold Club instead. If you find yourself near Mary's, resit the urge and continue east for a few blocks. Where did you find an air dance?

Was this visit recent, or many months ago? Have they rolled back price increases?

Casa Diablo is a very very good club that isn't in the top 40

The clubs in my rotation were busier last December than early fall or January. I remember seeing some mix gender office parties in a suburban one I occasionally visit, which surprised me quite a bit.

Centerfolds is next door.

Generally speaking, I don't understand why we have so much political discourse on this forum, but such minimal engagement on political topics that actually impact the strip club industry. I think the majority of observers would agree that girlgonebad won this particular exchange w/ Gammanu95 by simply focusing on candidates history and how it directly impacts the issues that matter to her. More generally--better access to affordable health care is something that we as strip club customers should care about. We WANT the dancers at our club to be healthy. We want them to have easy access to clinics and appropriate medicine so that they deal with infections quickly enough that they don't have to work when sick.

Does anyone know if Treasure Club Ashville survived?

Prices fluctuate based on day of week, time of day, and general scamminess of staff/dancers. It is too much for the info page to keep up with.

I'm in favor of raising the threshold both numerically and in terms of the standards that we enforce. The two things I look for in reviews are dance prices and what sort of dancers the club hires. Statements like "they were all 7-9" are basically useless because tastes differ and our rating scales are less consistent than Angel Hernandez's strike zone.

Off topic, but if only we could edit our posts for grammar.

I'll play devil's advocate here. This is an out of date review of a club that only has four other reviews in the last two years. It discusses differing experiences with different shifts, warns about food safety, describes privacy levels, and at least covers what the dancer line ups where when written. Is this review really adding less value than yet another "I went to the pink palace, danced with XYZ, it took three songs and there was no tip" or "here is a list of dancers at Desire that is too long to memorize" or "I went to baby dolls, some latina a built a chair fort and I had a nice visit" review? BTW, all of the above examples are PLs trying to add value and insight, but the a single review of a poorly covered club is in a lot of ways more valuable due to the novelty of its information.

There's no shortage of attractive stripper aged women in this country. If the clubs are having trouble recruiting them, then it is a problem with the industry.

Really, the only thing they had to do was be coherent and compassionate enough to not scare off voters. Even the best debate performance in a VP debate isn't going to persuade many people over the top of the tickets. Walz demonstrated sufficient command of the issues that he won't scare people off like Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin. I think JD Vance rehabilitated himself enough that he alone isn't a reason to vote against Trump.

Dem control of the senate likely means that the evil SALT cap will go away because Schumer hates it (and hence a tax cut for those living in high income states like NJ, MA, NY, CA, CT, etc). Trump has flip-flopped on this issue, and can't be trusted either way. One would expect Harris to be sympathetic to eliminating the SALT cap, but she hasn't shown any inclination to do so. Of more importance to this board is what will happen to lap dance costs?

Puddy, you sound like a liberal with that last post.

At Casa Diablo dancers receive a rose when you buy a room.

This is my preferred look: https://thegetawaylounge.net/data2/images/100_10221.jpg

The main reason I go to a shitty club is that I find myself in physical proximity to one on a day that good clubs are closed. Since the clubs aren't staffing with their A team on these days, my impression of the shitty clubs generally isn't improving. I do have a conundrum though. On a whim I stopped in at a shitty club over the summer and discovered an extraordinary dancer. This club, which is very shitty except for the one very good dancer, recently raised prices to an absurd level for the region. I haven't had occasion to return since they raised prices, and I'm still undecided if I'll return at all.

great review