I hear so many girls say every year gets worse the industry is dying ...is every year really going to get worse??? I know just last year I made so much more money than now ):
I hear so many girls say every year gets worse the industry is dying ...is every year really going to get worse??? I know just last year I made so much more money than now ):





Well, this is an election yr so that doesn't help? Also, things seem very volatile too.
MANY MEN WANTED TO LAY ME DOWN, BUT FEW WANTED TO LIFT ME UP
-Eartha Kitt




Girls have probably been saying this since the advent of stripping tbh, and it's hard to not look at things through a nostalgic lens. But personally when I've actually been accurately tracking earnings, I haven't noticed a huge change from year to year (if anything there's been a little improvement just from being a better hustler and being smarter about where I choose to work).
However I think there's a lot of reasons why it might appear there is less money than there used to be in stripping, that aren't necessarily the industry dying:
-Inflation. Dance prices in most areas have remained stagnant since the dawn of time. $20 (or even $10!) dances just used to have a lot more buying power at the end of the night than they do now.
-the Internet. It's less "omg free porn is ruining us" etc (although that doesn't help) but many high paying fetish customers who used to have to come into a strip club and hope they could find a stripper who would play out their fantasies (and in so doing became loyal regulars) now can simply navigate sites geared to that looking for a provider or search camgirls from the comfort of their own keyboard.
-more girls willing to give it a shot. As stripping is (slowly) becoming more socially accepted, clubs have an easier time finding girls. They don't have to offer as many perks as they used to, and can confidently charge high house fees etc. If you don't want to pay them or put up with their bs and strict scheduling, guess what, there's another girl that will gladly do so.
-personal standards increasing. As you gain skill at the job, what you accepted as a good night a year ago may no longer be the case. I think when a lot of us started dancing, making e.g. $250 cash in one night was awesome! Now any night that is less than $350 is a literal waste of time, why even leave the house etc.
-failure to reach peak hustle after the "baby stripper" stage wears off. This one kills a lot of girls; there's a reason it seems like so many dancers are in for about 6 months and then vanish. At first, fresh newbies start with a bright glow and the money just seems to flow to them without having to really hustle. But once that aura is gone, many girls don't ever evolve into the phase where they become a seasoned hustler, and they see a big money slump. They will often be found in the dressing room pining for the days when all it took was prancing around the floor and somebody would whisk them off to vip- the industry didn't change, they did. After the newbie money dries up, girls should be investing time in honing their stripper skills and persona, and trying different clubs, travel, etc. Camping out in the same club for years and not spending any time on personal development is a recipe for declining earnings year to year.
Ultimately you can't control the economy, but you can focus on doing everything you're able to do in order to maximize your own potential earnings. And keeping a positive mindset is incredibly helpful- just because OTHER girls are making less, it doesn't mean you are doomed to earn less. And if your club is in the middle of a slump, rather than stressing out about it and riding it till the end, take the opportunity to give a different club a shot.
(P.S. this isnt' necessarily directed at OP, idk how many apply to you personally, but it's good general advice cause I have been hearing this over and over from girls for half a decade now, and yet the industry still exists)
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