Hey, I just started at a venue similar to SVT but one of the girls I work with told me SVT is better money. Has anyone worked there recently? How busy is it?

Hey, I just started at a venue similar to SVT but one of the girls I work with told me SVT is better money. Has anyone worked there recently? How busy is it?

I was considering trying out for SVT, but I hear the rules are a lot looser--like extras are normal and it's very hands-on which I don't like at all. Read it here: http://nypost.com/2013/03/13/career-...pper-by-night/


heyo!
SVT dancer here.
I feel it's time to drop some knowledge about this place because 1. I've worked there for quite a while 2. the nypost/gothamist articles present a lot of misinformation about the parties that does NOT come from the POV of an actual stripper, and is therefore irrelevant.
First of all, I'd never stripped before I started working there. I didn't know it was a "stripping job" when I interviewed. In retrospect, I can't believe didn't occur to me to actively pursue a more traditional stripping job. The CL ad for SVT seemed like it was for a mysterious flirty cocktail gig. I recall it saying something to effect of "no stripping" (lies!). But whatever, I was naive. Anyways. I've really enjoyed working there. There's a lot I could say so I'll try to keep it concise in this post and address what suzuru was talking about regarding rules.
In my experience, the rules here are NOT 'loose,' at least in comparison to what I've heard can go down in a traditional club's champagne rooms. SVT is not a high mileage place. Yes, the open-area lapdances are full-contact*, and customers expect toplessness, despite what management tells new girls who are apprehensive about working. Customers can touch your ass, tits, stomach, face (ew), whatever - but they can't get too close to the ass crack and *they definitely cannot even GRAZE the pussy area.*
If a bouncer sees a customer doing this, he's usually given a slap on the wrist while the dancer gets fired or suspended. Usually. Here's where this gets tricky - the nature of the place is that certain employees get away with blatantly flouting the rules, while others are punished if a bouncer even barely suspects them of the tiniest infraction. However, the general hard-and-fast no-nos are:
1. Don't give out personal info to custys. No phone numbers, instagram handles, full names on Facebook, whatever. Historically I've seen plenty of coworkers get caught doing this. The main dude in charge once trolled my friend's list of instagram followers because he suspected her of seeing customers outside. Some of my coworkers are sneaky and find ways of connecting with customers outside of work, but honestly a date with a shitty finance douche is not worth risking job security there. Because if you have any type of hustle, you can consistently make what I believe to be decent cash in a relatively PG environment with hawkeyed security.
2. Don't let the customers touch your pussy. Don't touch their crotches with your hands (for some reason rubbing your ass and crotch and thighs all over a guy's crotch is okay, but don't grab for the dick).
3. This one's sort of hard for management to enforce, but there's not supposed to be any dirty talk. Even the most innocuous, casual sexy talk is prohibited - for instance, responding "missionary :/ " if a customer asks "What's you're favorite position?". We're also not supposed to talk about drugs, even if it's to say something like "Man, I smoked a lot of pot in college." Again, if a dancer is caught violating this rule, the onus falls on her to have prevented the situation. She's reprimanded for "even allowing the conversation to go there."
Periodically new and unspoken rules will come into play. For instance you're no longer allowed to slither down onto your knees and rub your torso on a guy while giving a lap dance. When I first started, it was pretty common to see dancers freely making out in the dance area with customers. Now that's generally frowned upon (to my great relief).
One thing that I think is important to note in this post is that they don't like to hire girls who admit to having stripped or done any other sex work prior. Management's assumption is that inside every "good girl" is an enterprising escort yearning to take advantage of SVT's stupid, drunk, horny, and (usually) monied clientele. Management assumes that all girls with prior experience are already "bad girls."
I know that's a nonsense, irrational mode of thinking, but you probably already know that nonsense and irrationality are hard to avoid in this industry. SVT brands itself as a place where a bored dad can suck on a 21-year old girl's tits like a Dyson, but it's ok! Because she's just a "normal girl," and even though she takes her clothes of for money and gyrates on guys' crotches, she's "not really a stripper." Obviously this is ludicrous - all strippers are "normal girls," and bored dads should only feel guilty about themselves if they try to get away with not paying in full. Alas. That's SVT!
A wealthy and self-proclaimed "strip club veteran" friend of mine said SVT was the best in town, and I have been meaning to audition but the organization seemed so mysterious so thanks for the details Juliette!


You're very welcome. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions. I'd be interested to hear what makes it the 'best in town' to a real-deal strip club veteran. A girl who (supposedly) worked at Sapphire's came in as the date of a male customer a while back and told me she could expect to earn 2-5k a night there regularly, which is definitely not possible at SVT.





Management doesn't want to hire experienced dancers, bc she's not gonna be foolish enough to do all that work for 20 bucks. Hence, no hustle.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that place sounds a place for cheap customers to receive the world. Way to traumatize naive girls and train them to NOT know their self worth!
Last edited by Vyanka; 01-08-2016 at 04:34 PM.
Only cheap customers go to SVT. Get everything for $20..it's a win win.





I don't think "raking in" 80K for a dancer is NYC is very difficult. Waitresses at high-end restaurants can do that. The concept definitely sounds interesting and may in some way influence more business-minded club owners NYC to modernize their clubs a little bit/ change club concept as all clubs with the exception of E11ven and a few others have been doing shit the same way for decades.
XoXo Gia
Danielle Fishell (the Dish): "If the Super-Star thing doesn't work out, Gia makes a great stripper name"
How do you think NYC clubs should be updated? I don't think I would want to go the E11even route..





I mean clubs everywhere in the U.S. They have had more or less the same set up for decades Nothing new has come along and there has been very little evolution. Every industray or business has room for improvement.
XoXo Gia
Danielle Fishell (the Dish): "If the Super-Star thing doesn't work out, Gia makes a great stripper name"





I;m not really being specific. I just mean a new concept might mix things up a bit. Almost every club I can think of has the same set up of stage rotation, with tables scattered about where girls try to hustle dances and VIPS. The fact of "amateur" girls dancing in civilian clothes for $20.00 a song cheapens the craft (IMO) and doesn't appeal to me but the underground/ speak easy vibe is kind of different and cool. One exception I do see is a bit more of a sports-bar w Strippers thing happening in some places but its still not a big change.
XoXo Gia
Danielle Fishell (the Dish): "If the Super-Star thing doesn't work out, Gia makes a great stripper name"
That was what they were going for with Vivid Cabaret but IDK if it worked out like that. The focal point of the club is still the VIPs..which it has to be or they would go under. Rent in NYC is not cheap.
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