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I am a 19 y/o exotic dancer who recently moved to Seattle after stripping for a year in Dallas and S.F. (at Baby Dolls and Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell) while attending college in Texas and spending summer in California. I'm thinking about dancing again in Seattle, as I do miss it, but all the clubs here are fully nude, and I prefer topless. In the past few months, I've been visiting the local strip clubs here, of all my experiences here, Rick's impressed me the least, for several reasons.

Prior to this, I've gone to several strip clubs alone, and as a customer, and usually buy a dance or two. Having been on both sides of the tip rail, I can say that normally, dancers either love/hate women in strip clubs. Polite female customers who are sober, tip well, and treat the dancers with respect are LOVED by the dancers, while the drunk chicks who try to get onstage on poledance are extremely annoying, and almost worst than lousy tippers. So I did not understand why the dancers were SO hostile toward me, as I tipped enthusiastically whenever I saw some great pole/floor work (which was not often), was sober, didn't attempt to upstage the dancers in any way, kept my clothing on, and didn't jump on stage during someone's set to poledance. Visually speaking, Rick's and the Vu on Lake City will always be the nastier clubs in Seattle, I'd recommend DreamGirls or Little Darlings-the places are newer, don't stink, are prettily furnished, aren't seedy, and the dancers are both sweet to chat with and gorgeous. To be blunt, most of the Rick's dancers looked like 30-something single moms with lots of cellulite and stretch marks, plus a few visible C-section scars! A few were slightly above average, but most looked like the "After" pictures on the "Faces of Meth" website, and seemed like the kind of dancers that would offer to blow a customer for $10 or half a crack rock.

Anyway, I don't know why they were so hostile, but shortly after I arrived, the manager asked if I'd be interested in working as an entertainer there, and was very persistent after I refused, even though I finally said I'd consider it (even though that was a lie) to get him off my back, and I think a few dancers overheard me acquiescing, and also heard me say I'd danced. I apologize if I'm coming off as arrogant or anything, but I was certainly younger than most girls working at Rick's, and much more attractive, although 95% of the population falls into that category. I left without getting a dance, as I didn't want to catch chlamydia. Don't go here, there are better places in Seattle.