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Nor do I. But this club is predominantly Latin. I find this dancer'f make-up and hair extensions over the top, but she has a bangin body (unlike Snooky) and she is an unusually talented dancer in the way her energy level is crazy.
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That's it too, Snooki doesn't even have a banging body, she always look like a fat girl. I can see attractiveness in bigger girls (and to some I was a bigger girl) but to me she just looks flabby. Not to mention she looks cheap.
"Fool me once..." Clubs like that killed the goose. The internet helped a lot, because customers couldn't compare notes so easily.
The man who used to think he'd get laid if he spent justw a little more realized he needed to be smarter, and started negotiating. Throw in a bad economy and you get what we have today.
I agree. I think the biggest killer of old dancing money is the internet. You can find out anything you want, and not to mention the power of forums. Combine that with a big recession (depression in disguise) and its almost not worth dancing these days unless you move where the money is for your look and body type+ethnicity.
Agreed about the internet. Also, not sure if this is because of the internet but the loosening of dancing morals. Back when I danced fulltime guys actually paid for bikini dances that were no touch and they REALLY paid for topless dances that were no touch. Now many clubs are full nude and touching.
I disagree. I worked in New Jersey/New York and did well with black curly hair. So when I decided to work in Ct I thought it was a no brainer to rock the same look. I started out at my new Ct spot and another girl warned me that it's a gamble to wear black hair because they like blondes. I thought she was nuts until I got passed over and passed over! All the hard work trying to connect and turn these guys on was wasted. I put on a blonde wig the next time and even though I thought it looked nuts, I'll be damned if they didn't love it. And another example is I loved the style in Vegas and tried to take it to my next club down South and it just didn't fly! I could not get them amped. I changed into the type of costumes they liked and voila! To some guys connecting with the familiar is more important than connecting with just any hot chick.
I totally agree. And like hair color, with body type its the same thing. Move where your look is most popular and it'll be a goldmine. Or at least travel dance there. You make the most when you look/act like how the men in the area (customers) expect you to. If you don't, it usually works against you because men are turned off, confused, or feel inferior (in a bad way). That's why dumb slut stripper personality works better than super smart stripper personality. Give the customer what they want ;)
Agree with both of you. Both hair color and body types can determine many things in this business. I know having been a brunette with a larger body type (not fat, just more muscular) there were clubs that rejected me.
Identical observation from my own perspective. Agreed that the entire business model for strip clubs changed permanently following the 9/11 2001 incident and ensuing 2002 recession. From that point forward, it was all 'downhill'. From 2002 through 2007 or so the 'downhill' slope was, however, gradual. But after the 2008 'crash', the 'downhill' slope became much steeper ... which prompted me to quit live club work altogether at that time.Quote:
I believe the clubs in the NY & NJ have changed. The best way someone summed it up was, "Show business to Sex business". I could not agree more. When I walked into a club the very first time I was shocked to see so many gorgeous women. The manager gave me a speech about getting highlights, tanning and working out. The girls were true stage performers. There were no private rooms, just lap dances. We had to wear gowns. The customers were nice and I needed no regulars to make money. If I gained a few I made them come in on a slower night. My main club got a champayne room about 2003. From that point on the club put the lap dances in the open so you had to sell the room. By 2005 it wasn't about stage or being attractive and fun. It was about extras and forming annoying relationships with regulars. At this point the business is not the same business I started in.
I'm going to have to disagree with this assertion. For a fact, from about 1995 on, all sorts of 'adult' content became available via the internet ( and I cashed in on that ! ). But it wasn't until the recession of 2002 that dancer earnings potential began to fall, customer contact expectations began to rise, and a surplus of willing dancers appeared that would accept lower earnings and higher contact. I'm blaming the economy as the primary killer of old dancing money ... both by reducing the amount of 'discretionary income' that typical strip club customers could afford to spend, as well as by increasing the number of financially stressed girls who were willing to turn to stripping / extras to reduce that financial stress.Quote:
I think the biggest killer of old dancing money is the internet. You can find out anything you want, and not to mention the power of forums. Combine that with a big recession (depression in disguise) and its almost not worth dancing these days
The stripping industry has evolved atrociously. I miss the 90s and I've only been dancing for nine months, lol.
My mom danced in the 80s and 90s. When she first started, the girls all actually had to be very attractive. Some clubs these days will hire almost anything. You had to have your nails done, you had to look like a professional erotic performer. You had to wear gowns. Extras? What were extras back then? The dances were no-contact, and they took place on little boxes/pedestals in front of the customer. The clubs were (generally) much busier and men were eager to buy dances. House fee? What house fee? My mom got paid $17 an hour by the club while still taking home the shitload of money she'd make each night. Money was easier to make, and I can assume that the job was much less stressful. I mean, I'm sure the 90s had its own issues. For example, when my mom first started dancing they had a quota where only two black women were allowed to work on the same shift. She was one of them.
A woman at my club has been dancing since '92. She's another prime example of how the industry has gone downhill. She complains about it all the time, and I don't blame her. After 20 years of dancing I'd be insane.
But hey, everybody was doin' good in the 90s. The economy was much better, which obviously has played a role. It's just sad that the stripping industry has also turned into a prostitution industry, and I truly can't stand it.