This is happening in Melbourne, Australia and I was wondering if anyone else elsewhere in the world is experiencing the same thing and to a similar degree in their local scene :/
This is happening in Melbourne, Australia and I was wondering if anyone else elsewhere in the world is experiencing the same thing and to a similar degree in their local scene :/




Yeah! When the money is good it is great, but man when there’s so many girls willing to do the most for nothing. Man it sucks.
Last edited by Ifyouseekamy; 08-19-2018 at 05:29 AM.
Yep it seems to be true everywhere.





I'm going to be the devil's advocate in this discussion- yeah it sucks that strip bars are changing, but for decades the public has been pushing to shut them down and push them out of cities.
I'm happy that anyone is willing to run one. If I had been born into money I would have tried to start one instead of working as a dancer (seeing as we all know that's the more lucrative side most of the time.)




I think this is part of it also. There's probably not more girls actually dancing in a lot of cities than there were 10 years ago (around here a lot of girls have actually quit since the 'boom" years of stripping) but there's so many fewer clubs around. 10 clubs with a 30 girl roster can have 300 dancers, 3 clubs left means only 90 girls get to work. Or they don't cap dancers and suddenly you have 100 girls trying to work each club.




This would be my dream!! In Melbourne, we now have fewer clubs-- in the state we have 11 currently. Two clubs, Opium/Exotica and Bar 20 have closed down in the last couple of years or so, and it's just made it feel at least like there's too many of us. Speaking of over-rostering and over-saturation of the industry--isn't it ironic how there's more dancers...dancer fines, house fees, club% have increased with inflation...yet dance prices barely ever increase....at least this is the case in Australia...









As I've watched laws in the US get more restrictive towards strip bars I totally expect some states to start allowing go-go dance bars again (where dancers are either kept away from the crowd or ordered to keep a bikini on all night.)
Social drinking has surged in popularity so I think it'll be a case of bars using different methods to stand apart from other bars.
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