I have only been visiting Strip Clubs regularly for about a year now. The first time I ever set foot in one was in late 1999/early 2000 (can't recall exact day). I was a freshly anointed 21-year old looking to see what the hubub was about. It was during the daytime because there wasn't much activity and I only saw one dancer on stage, so I left shortly after. Of course I had heard about lap dances from popular media sources, but after taking one look and deciding to come back another time, I left it at that. Life circumstances had arrived shortly after which overruled any notion of clubbing until years later (2012 to be exact lol).
So, after joining this unique forum and reading some past posts, I see many dancers (and ex-dancers) posting about how "great" it was in the '90s and calling it the "Golden Age" of stripping, etc. This label seems to stem from having much, much less physical contact between dancer and customer back then versus now. Higher contact means the customer gets more for the same money (or less), therefore higher contact is bad. If higher contact = bad, then how did this become the norm? Was there an event that happened that forced dancers to allow more for the same money or less? I don't think you can use the "bad economy" argument, because strip clubs (i.e. a place that has a stage where dancers get nude) have been around since at least the '40s/'50s (at least the '60s definitely). And we have had at least 1 or 2 economic recessions between then and the late '90s, when the Golden Age purportedly ended. To my knowledge the kind of high contact lap dances that are the focal point of this negativity never happened even in those bad times.
So, what happened?




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) wouldn't settle for an airdance, and would verbalize "they did more in (XXX). Such travelers would pass on the tamer dances, saving the money for next "wild city" trip. Ensuing effect was tame cities would have to "open the envelope" some more, or else miss out on the $$. This, coupled with information age explosion/expansion of internet meant that club ABC was no longer just competing with club XYZ just down the street, but with other clubs nationwide that were firmly embedded in customers memory bank from a vacation, or a business trip.
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