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    As someone who has lived in Vegas for 10 years I can say that this article is 100% on the money. Vegas is no longe about gambling. It's about partying, fine dining and entertainment. Those who have major money aren't frequenting the clubs like they used to. I make better $$ sitting in a high end Hotel bar, chatting up a guy, and telling him I work at club "X" and I hate going in because its so slow. He asks what I make in a night, I tell him, he pays, we continue to chat and drink, maybe gamble and I go home. 8/10 of these guys say " Oh I never set foot in those places anymore" unless some clients REALLY want to go. I can't wait to leave this town. The only upside is even though it may not be in the clubs, there IS money everywhere and a pretty girl with her wits about her shouldn't have a hard time getting by. And I'm not talking offering sex. It just takes some tact. But I feel for girls in smaller towns or places where people just don't have it period.

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    Things need to evolve or die. It's the nature of things. I think we're going to die. Between the advent of home poles, pole dancing classes for suburban soccer moms to "Unleash their inner stripper" *eyeroll* and trying to get pole dancing into the Olympics, it has gone mainstream and therefore not taboo anymore. Our job's glory days were when it was taboo and shocking.

    Oh well. It was a good run while it lasted. Look around you so you can remember it.
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    i think stripping " as we know it" will definitely die cuz everything comes to an end. and then evolve into something else.but sex work will always, always be around.. no doubt about that, considering its thrived since the beginning of time. but yeah, twirling around a pole, sipping champagne, and giving air dances in private rooms for hundreds or thousands a night in clubs..yes, it will come to an end, probably or evolve into something else, however you wanna look at it.
    im very interested to know what it will look like in 50 years. i mean , awhile ago ballerinas were considered modern-day strippers , which is totally laughable to us now. but i think erotic entertainment with attractive females will always find a way

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    I can admit that I'm going to be a part of the extinction. You know what? I'm ok with it. I won't be fazed out right away but it will happen. I'm hoping stripping can evolve into something better (Nina gives me hope) but with all these n00bs treating it like a party and not a job I really don't have much faith.
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    I make better $$ sitting in a high end Hotel bar, chatting up a guy, and telling him I work at club "X" and I hate going in because its so slow. He asks what I make in a night, I tell him, he pays, we continue to chat and drink, maybe gamble and I go home.
    Indeed I often wind up doing something close to this 'way south of the border' ... however I actually have no need whatsoever of a strip club affiliation to be successful doing it !!!

    Here's something to think about ... this sort of 'new' business model is actually a throwback to the 'courtesans' who flourished during the Renaissance !!!


    But I feel for girls in smaller towns or places where people just don't have it period.
    And, for better or worse, that circles us back to basics. Girls cannot earn money from guys who simply don't have any money available for spending on 'non-essential' things in the first place !!! Based on 'global' strip club history where too many girls are willing to do whatever is necessary to extract a shrinking amount of money from an increasingly 'poor' customer base, I certainly don't want to see the potential worst case outcome which has already been the case in certain southeast Asian city clubs becoming commonplace in the 'west'.

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    I'm starting to have a little faith. Last night a high roller came in who I knew because the week before he got a room with him and his usual girl and his limo driver and me. Well his girl wasn't there last night, so he took a liking to me. The club "bitch" (tattles on everyone, and steps on toes, thinks she's better than everyone) was trying to get him to do a room. When she went to go on stage he comes over to me and says, "She offered to do anything with me up there. I'm not into that, I want you." A-FUCKING-MEN. See what happens when you're a skank?!?

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    I feel the pain! It has been the WORST year of my dancing career! I find myself asking 'why am I even her' UGH

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    Last night a high roller came in who I knew because the week before he got a room with him and his usual girl and his limo driver and me. Well his girl wasn't there last night, so he took a liking to me. The club "bitch" (tattles on everyone, and steps on toes, thinks she's better than everyone) was trying to get him to do a room. When she went to go on stage he comes over to me and says, "She offered to do anything with me up there. I'm not into that, I want you." A-FUCKING-MEN
    Take it while you can still find it !!! And, indeed, latest economic statistics continue to show that the 'rich are getting richer'. The problem, of course, is that clubs which have a significant percentage of their customer base in the 'top 10%' of American earners are few and far between, and will not / do not hire every dancer who applies to work there.

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    I am glad im not the only one noticing the HUGE decline is quality of dancers that are fucking up this business (aka 18-21 yr old skanks that dont treat it as A JOB) and the lack of guys actually realizing what they are getting themselves into when they walk into a strip club!!! I am repulsed every time i walk in there and see a table of 5-8 guys with NO GIRLS cause they dont spend a damn thing!!!!! wtf??? you think this is our community service??? not to mention most clubs show 0 appreciation for the dancers, and WITHOUT US, they wouldnt make shit!!! sorry for ranting i just hate that a once amazing business has turned into panhandling!!!

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    ^^^ if there is any offsetting 'reality' from the 5-8 guys that aren't spending on dancers, from the clubowner's standpoint these guys are at least still paying cover charges and still generating club profits from drink sales. Without that revenue, the clubs would be seeking even more dollars out of the dancer's pockets and/or closing the club's doors due to bankruptcy thus reducing dancer earnings to zero.

    obviously, there isn't any offsetting 'reality' to compensate for the fact that more and more guys simply don't have much in the way of dollars available for spending on 'non-essential' things like strip club visits, once they get done paying for 'necessary' things like student loan payments, rent, utilities, health insurance premiums or IRS penalty etc., out of their stagnant or shrinking after tax paychecks.

    On the topic of clubowners not respecting dancers, from their standpoint there are now tons of girls who, between an inability to land a 'straight job' that provides sufficient after-tax income to pay their bills, plus the 'party girls' you describe, the clubowners know that they can replace any existing dancer who chooses to quit with a phone call. In fact, if the existing dancer doesn't offer 'extras' to customers, but the replacement dancer WILL offer 'extras' to customers, the clubowner stands to profit more if the existing dancer leaves !!!

    Welcome to the new US strip club paradigm ...

    - a comparative handful of upscale large city clubs who hire a comparative handful of 'top shelf' dancers are able to appeal to 'top 10%' earning club customers who can actually still afford to spend a significant amount of money in a strip club, or

    - 'dirty' clubs where girls offer enough 'extras' to pursuade 'working class' customers to spend their limited dollars for a happy ending tonight, and worry about how they'll buy groceries and/or pay their rent tomorrow, or

    - neighborhood / small city 'clean' clubs that are being 'starved' into slow motion bankruptcy due to insufficient available 'non-essential' spending dollars from the club's customer base to 'pay the club's bills', and/or to provide the 'clean' dancers with enough income to make dancing at the club worthwhile in the future.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Halliwell View Post
    I am glad im not the only one noticing the HUGE decline is quality of dancers that are fucking up this business (aka 18-21 yr old skanks that dont treat it as A JOB) and the lack of guys actually realizing what they are getting themselves into when they walk into a strip club!!! I am repulsed every time i walk in there and see a table of 5-8 guys with NO GIRLS cause they dont spend a damn thing!!!!! wtf??? you think this is our community service??? not to mention most clubs show 0 appreciation for the dancers, and WITHOUT US, they wouldnt make shit!!! sorry for ranting i just hate that a once amazing business has turned into panhandling!!!

    And this is what has made me hate this business. I know everyone says that if you no longer enjoy dancing..get it out..But it isnt that easy for me, and prolly many others like me.

    People do still come into the bars..They come in in groups..What pisses me off is that they sit around and dont feel obligated to tip the dancers..They dont care that we are there to pay bills and be able to survive...They just care about buying their alcohol and sightseeing for free.

    It has become cool to hangout in stripclubs and be a part of the scene..Meanwhile shitting all over the dancers and making fun of us many nights that I go into work at least. And if u rnt the 'favorite' of the night u dont make shit...

    I miss the days when people came in and appreciated us..Those were some enjoyable times..I miss dancing in that [email protected]# this one...

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    I know everyone says that if you no longer enjoy dancing..get it out..But it isnt that easy for me, and prolly many others like me.

    I miss the days when people came in and appreciated us..Those were some enjoyable times..I miss dancing in that [email protected]# this one...

    This was the major reason that I retired from live dancing 4 years ago ... when it became crystal clear to me that the 'old' strip club paradigm ... where dancers were considered to be 'performers' rather than 'sex workers', when 'top shelf' but clean dancers were treated with at least some element of respect by clubowners and club customers alike, and where 'average' club customers could still afford to spend a fair amount of money at a strip club without short-changing their mortgage payment and/or car payment and/or grocery and utility bills ... was not going to come back into existence within the practical 'lifetime' of my dancing career !!!

    Granted that it was financially possible for me to 'walk away' from live dancing without too much lifestyle disruption, a situation which isn't the case for lots of younger dancers who didn't have the benefit of being able to cray 'bank' during the 90's tech boom and early 00's real estate boom. However, even though some younger dancers 'need' the elevated level of earnings potential that dancing used to be able to provide, wishful thinking is not going to increase the amount of money in club customer paychecks, nor reduce the amount of money club customers must pay in taxes, utility bills, rent / mortgage, groceries, tuition / student loans, and other 'essential' items, to increase the net amount of money available for strip club spending. And, unfortunately, I really don't see anything on the economic horizon that is likely to increase the amount of after-tax, after 'necessities' money which would allow 'middle class' strip club customers to afford to spend the same amount of money in suburban / neighborhood strip clubs that they used to.

    As stated multiple times in earlier posts, IMHO younger dancers basically have two remaining options to still be able to earn significant amounts of money from dancing these days. One option is to get comfortable with the fact that a large number of customers that are actually willing to spend money in strip clubs these days expect to receive 'extras'. Another option is to relocate to a big city which is capable of supporting an upscale strip club, a city which also has a significant number of guys living / working in that city that fall in the 'top 10%' of all American earners to still make high spending in that upscale strip club possible.

    Obviously a fair number of younger dancers are not going to be comfortable offering 'extras', and are also going to be unwilling or unable to pull up stakes and move to a big city and also get hired by an upscale strip club. For better or worse, younger dancers that can't or won't explore these two options are most likely going to experience a continuing 'downhill' trend. And, undoubtedly, at some point, those younger dancers' 'downhill' trend will reach the point where they begin to question the wisdom of continuing to work at a strip club where they are treated increasingly poorly and earning increasingly less money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post

    Welcome to the new US strip club paradigm ...

    - a comparative handful of upscale large city clubs who hire a comparative handful of 'top shelf' dancers are able to appeal to 'top 10%' earning club customers who can actually still afford to spend a significant amount of money in a strip club, or

    - 'dirty' clubs where girls offer enough 'extras' to pursuade 'working class' customers to spend their limited dollars for a happy ending tonight, and worry about how they'll buy groceries and/or pay their rent tomorrow, or

    - neighborhood / small city 'clean' clubs that are being 'starved' into slow motion bankruptcy due to insufficient available 'non-essential' spending dollars from the club's customer base to 'pay the club's bills', and/or to provide the 'clean' dancers with enough income to make dancing at the club worthwhile in the future.
    I never even experienced the old strip club paradigm, since I've only been dancing since 2010, but since then I can tell a dramatic decline in spending. I worked at a local small city clean club which you described above, and that is pretty much what happened. I never made bank, but with the club being 30-40 minutes away, clean, good management, good girls etc, 300-400 and sometimes more just working weeknights is good in my book (and I'm not a very aggressive hustler). Most of us could make a steady grand a week working three days. The last year I was there the management started hiring more girls, uglier ones at that, and started putting on more events to get a bigger crowd in. Unfortunately, it's good for the club, but horrible for the dancers. I know they've lost quite a few of their "good" girls there and are just left with a bunch of duds in my book. I changed to a club in a bigger city, although twice the distance. It is a top tier high quality gentleman's club, and attracts the 10% of men who do have money to blow. It also helps that Im' right by the nation's capital, so a lot of people are there on business. Girls are complaining that they aren't making $600 on a weekday night. LOL. Yes, there are some extras there, but if you are caught by management you will get fired. Management does look out for us and I do enjoy working for them. They have more strict guidelines, weight restrictions, etc as far as working there goes (as it should), however I still think the quality of girls for THAT club could be better. I am pissed I didn't save any money the last few years, however, I had health problems and only worked about half the time. I am really worried about what is going to happen with all of this, and I have been working on being a Domme online and in real time to kind of phase out of dancing. To be honest people all over the world will spend tons of money on their fetish, and that is something that I see being profitable in the future. It just makes me sad because I love dancing, but the current economy is complete bullshit. I grow up and finally on my own, and I have absolutely nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    If you're referring to a return to the 'good ol' days' when customers had lots of money to spend, when customers were content with low/no contact, when dancers were appreciated for their performing skills on the club's pole ( as opposed to the customer's 'pole' ), etc. ... not a chance.
    I guess this depends on where you are located. There are places where you can make good stage money and go home with a decent sum ($200 or so) w/o doing any private dances. You better be able to perform, though. Sauntering around the stage for 2 songs won't earn a dancer that kind of money. She has to have the total package.

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    I'm getting bored by dancing. Not burned out just bored....add to the inevitable and I just don't care anymore. I'm probably just gonna travel occasionally if I need a break from the Philly burbs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    This was the major reason that I retired from live dancing 4 years ago ... when it became crystal clear to me that the 'old' strip club paradigm ... where dancers were considered to be 'performers' rather than 'sex workers', when 'top shelf' but clean dancers were treated with at least some element of respect by clubowners and club customers alike, and where 'average' club customers could still afford to spend a fair amount of money at a strip club without short-changing their mortgage payment and/or car payment and/or grocery and utility bills ... was not going to come back into existence within the practical 'lifetime' of my dancing career !!!

    Granted that it was financially possible for me to 'walk away' from live dancing without too much lifestyle disruption, a situation which isn't the case for lots of younger dancers who didn't have the benefit of being able to cray 'bank' during the 90's tech boom and early 00's real estate boom. However, even though some younger dancers 'need' the elevated level of earnings potential that dancing used to be able to provide, wishful thinking is not going to increase the amount of money in club customer paychecks, nor reduce the amount of money club customers must pay in taxes, utility bills, rent / mortgage, groceries, tuition / student loans, and other 'essential' items, to increase the net amount of money available for strip club spending. And, unfortunately, I really don't see anything on the economic horizon that is likely to increase the amount of after-tax, after 'necessities' money which would allow 'middle class' strip club customers to afford to spend the same amount of money in suburban / neighborhood strip clubs that they used to.

    As stated multiple times in earlier posts, IMHO younger dancers basically have two remaining options to still be able to earn significant amounts of money from dancing these days. One option is to get comfortable with the fact that a large number of customers that are actually willing to spend money in strip clubs these days expect to receive 'extras'. Another option is to relocate to a big city which is capable of supporting an upscale strip club, a city which also has a significant number of guys living / working in that city that fall in the 'top 10%' of all American earners to still make high spending in that upscale strip club possible.

    Obviously a fair number of younger dancers are not going to be comfortable offering 'extras', and are also going to be unwilling or unable to pull up stakes and move to a big city and also get hired by an upscale strip club. For better or worse, younger dancers that can't or won't explore these two options are most likely going to experience a continuing 'downhill' trend. And, undoubtedly, at some point, those younger dancers' 'downhill' trend will reach the point where they begin to question the wisdom of continuing to work at a strip club where they are treated increasingly poorly and earning increasingly less money.
    Many excellent points as usual.

    I do not fit the category of the younger dancers, nor of the dancers willing to do extras to keep money going. I am one of the ones who has adjusted her standard of living to make it in these times. It is sad to see the days in dancing where the 'top girls', who are younger than me and hotter are lower themselves to nasty stage shows, and low standards of how they are willing to let a customer carry on with them..

    Many people prolly dont like how I carry my head high oftentimes at work....I may not be the highest earner nor have the hottest body..I am not understand the false idea that I do but my 'I dont take shit off people' attitude allows me to go home at night and feel good in my own skin...Everyone has their own boundaries though and I do understand that..

    I do understand how many girls would want to leave this industry..Many have..

    The future outside of dancing looks just as bleak as that inside as it stands now.

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    *I am not under the false idea

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    Melonie, could you elaborate any more on the southeast Asian clubs? I get the impression they're pretty wild!

    Also, I totally agree with your breakdown. Until last year I made solid money at a clean small city club, but only because the owner was very generous in terms of base pay and dancer cuts. As a result, the average dancer income in this neighborhood club artificially weathered the recession for a while. When he died the new owner implemented a less generous payout structure that resembles industry standard, and unsurprisingly the money ceased to be worth it. I left for a top 10% club in a big city and although the money is much better here, I'll always be sad that I probably can't go back to making solid $ in a bikini dance club with no VIP. I make way more here a night, but I wouldn't call it easy money like I did the five years I was there.
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    Melonie, could you elaborate any more on the southeast Asian clubs? I get the impression they're pretty wild!
    I'll just comment that the 'sexual tourism' trade exists for a reason !!!


    I left for a top 10% club in a big city and although the money is much better here, I'll always be sad that I probably can't go back to making $2k/week in 3-4 shifts in a bikini dance club with no VIP like I did for 5 years. I make way more here a night, but I wouldn't call it easy money
    In a way you were 'lucky' to be in a position to commute / move to take advantage of the top 10% big city club. Lots of girls don't have that option, short of pulling up stakes and leaving friends and family behind. Also, you were doubly 'lucky' that you also have the necessary 'attributes' and experience to be hired by that top 10% big city club. Lots of small city club dancers couldn't make the 'cut'.

    Indeed, such a top 10% big city club still provides comparatively high dancer earnings opportunities. However, A. you definitely have to 'work harder' for the money, B. the club will tend to 'take' more of your money, C. taxes will definitely take more of your money, D. higher costs of living in the big city will definitely 'eat up' more of the money you have left !!! Thus it's not enough to simply compare the amount of money you walk out of the clubs with at the end of the night. What really needs to be compared is the amount of money you are able to save by the end of the year, after taxes and costs of living have been paid. I know that, in my own case, when I was living and working in Manhattan the 'gross' amount of dollars I was earning were major, but after paying all of the taxes, paying for comparatively expensive rent, groceries, utilities, etc., I still wasn't making a whole lot of financial headway re savings and investments.


    The future outside of dancing looks just as bleak as that inside as it stands now
    The 'official statistics' now tend to show that the US economy is 'improving'. However, it's still pretty accurate to say that, outside of some highly specialized 'niches' which require proper educational credentials, there is still a major surplus of 'unskilled labor' applicants for every available job. And, unfortunately, with that sort of 'competition', the straight job employers have the luxury of 'losing' the resumes of applicants whose personal characteristics and/or past work history might lead to potential 'problems' for that straight job employer.

    Extremely hot girls already pose the potential for disrupting straight job co-workers. Adding a 'stripper' background only increases that potential .... well, in the eyes of the potential straight job employer anyhow. Thus with new laws requiring the issuance of 1099's by strip clubs, requiring girls to obtain dancers' licenses etc., it's now more likely than ever that a girl's 'stripper' background cannot be kept a complete secret from potential straight job employers. This potential of creating a 'paper trail' of having worked as a 'stripper', of course, adds one more factor in regard to any decision whether it is still 'worth it' for a girl to continue working for 'marginal' money in a small city club.
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    ^^^This is why I'm glad I can commute to a major city (although my commute is an hour and a half) while still maintaining a relatively low income lifestyle in my small town where I live.

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    The 'official statistics' now tend to show that the US economy is 'improving'. However, it's still pretty accurate to say that, outside of some highly specialized 'niches' which require proper educational credentials, there is still a major surplus of 'unskilled labor' applicants for every available job. And, unfortunately, with that sort of 'competition', the straight job employers have the luxury of 'losing' the resumes of applicants whose personal characteristics and/or past work history might lead to potential 'problems' for that straight job employer.

    Extremely hot girls already pose the potential for disrupting straight job co-workers. Adding a 'stripper' background only increases that potential .... well, in the eyes of the potential straight job employer anyhow. Thus with new laws requiring the issuance of 1099's by strip clubs, requiring girls to obtain dancers' licenses etc., it's now more likely than ever that a girl's 'stripper' background cannot be kept a complete secret from potential straight job employers. This potential of creating a 'paper trail' of having worked as a 'stripper', of course, adds one more factor in regard to any decision whether it is still 'worth it' for a girl to continue working for 'marginal' money in a small city club.
    Even with a degree, unless is it specialized people like me are considered 'unskilled laborers' and therefore are having a hard time finding jobs. Added to that huge resume gaps, and no solid references and this is how one stays in dancing for wayy too long. Not to mention the fact that it is crazy how if u r attractive/and a woman in the real world u can get discriminated against. The whole job market outside of dancing is very frustrating...The minimum wage jobs are the only ones that seem easily accessible and they dont pay most people's bills enough for survival.

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    This is why I'm glad I can commute to a major city (although my commute is an hour and a half) while still maintaining a relatively low income lifestyle in my small town where I live.
    That's basically what I did as well ... moving from Manhattan to one of the least expensive North Jersey suburbs that was still within range of Manhattan Penn Station commuter rail. This still wasn't 'cheap' relative to nationwide costs of living, but was much less expensive than living in NYC.


    Even with a degree, unless is it specialized people like me are considered 'unskilled laborers' and therefore are having a hard time finding jobs. Added to that huge resume gaps, and no solid references and this is how one stays in dancing for wayy too long
    Agreed that a teaching degree will wind up landing far fewer jobs than a robotics engineering degree these days. After all, gov't are being forced to cut back on spending, existing teachers can no longer afford to retire early, etc. On the other hand, robotics engineers are under the gun to develop commercial robotic equipment that can cook hamburgers, that can pick fruit and vegetables, that can 'walk' a security guard beat, etc. more economically than a minimum wage human worker !!! But that's drifting off-topic.

    Your point about being 'stuck' as a dancer once a girl starts dancing is well taken. Indeed, it is increasingly the case that the 'paper trail' of having worked in any capacity of the adult entertainment industry ... along with sketchy references and a 'swiss cheese' straight job history ... will hurt the girl's opportunities for future straight job opportunities later. And this is especially the case for girls who are using dancing to educate themselves to the point of becoming qualified for a future straight 'profession' i.e. teaching, health care etc., since state professional licensing boards now pay a great deal of attention to in-depth background checks.

    Moving logically forward, it is arguably 'still worth it' for a girl to spend 10+ years maximizing her earnings potential as a full time dancer in a 'top 10%' club ... then quitting dancing altogether while obtaining a college degree ... then moving into the 'professional' job market 4 years later with a more-or-less irrelevant past work history. It is arguably far less 'worth it' for a girl to work as an exotic dancer part time at a low income potential club while she is simultaneously obtaining a college degree ... then embarking on the 'professional' job market with a fresh 'paper trail' of having worked as a 'stripper'. Of course, if the girl is swept up in a bogus club bust which places the fact that she has worked as a 'stripper' on her permanent ( criminal ) record, in the former case the girl can judge for herself whether or not it's still worth the tuition and time to pursue a 'professional' degree before committing any time or money ... with no ongoing risk of being busted while she is studying for her degree. In the latter case, the girl may have already invested 3 out of 4 years worth of time and money toward obtaining her 'professional' degree, with a bogus club bust suddenly putting all of the 3 years worth of previous investment and effort at risk of never being 'usable' as intended.


    Not to mention the fact that it is crazy how if u r attractive/and a woman in the real world u can get discriminated against
    Actually, court rulings have stated that the firing of a highly attractive female employee isn't 'discrimination' ... thus straight job employers are now justified for firing a highly attractive employee if her attractiveness creates a 'distraction' for other employees and/or the boss, or otherwise 'disrupts' the workplace environment !!! Thus the drooling male workers, and the jealous overweight female workers, can now be 'protected' via their employer legally removing the object of their drool and jealousy !!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    Indeed I often wind up doing something close to this 'way south of the border' ... however I actually have no need whatsoever of a strip club affiliation to be successful doing it !!!

    Here's something to think about ... this sort of 'new' business model is actually a throwback to the 'courtesans' who flourished during the Renaissance !!!
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    I certainly hope so! I was not the greatest stripper, but I have always been able to earn my best income from a classy alluring appearance and intriguing conversation.

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    ^^^ IMHO this is a 'growing' market segment. Top 1% earners are leery of 'dating' these days, since they now have some legitimate reason to fear legal / financial consequences by entering into any sort of 'personal relationship' that isn't actually going to end up in marriage ( with a signed pre-nup ! ). However, those top 1% earners often seek more 'interaction' than is available from an escort or a high-end exotic dancer ( while they are 'working' at least ). That opens the door for new opportunities for girls willing to provide short term, no strings, 'companionship' at a suitable level of intelligence, demeanor, worldly experience,personality etc. to satisfy a 1% earner ... and with sex being strictly optional ( and not expected ). I actually stumbled across this 'unfulfilled market niche' more or less by accident, after moving to a popular vacation area down here 'way south of the border' and regularly running into a large number of vacationing 1%ers at the local casino, marina, beachfront bars etc.

    Not wanting to 'blow my own horn', and definitely not wanting to 'blow' anything else unless the mood strikes me LOL, but as you have already pointed out, being successful in this market niche requires a skill set that goes well beyond looking fantastic, wearing sexy clothes well, and having pole dancing skills.

    personally speaking, I'm always a 'sucker' for an invitation to go sailing on a vacationing handsome guy's ... yacht !!!

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    I cant believe being attractive can cause you to be disqualified from jobs..This goes against what I have known my entire life..Talk about a culture shock...Maybe if I added on 50 pounds and stopped grooming myself I would have a better time getting jobs.

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