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    Default How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    Gentlemen's clubs are closed in Texas and I imagine in most of the US. How are you ladies (and men) in the industry coping? Are you turning to other adult entertainment, like caming? Or are you getting out of adult entertainment altogether?

    Even before the pandemic, I had not been to a club in a couple of months, but, it's been way too long now and I am starting to feel dancer-withdrawal symptoms and I am also beginning to panic - what if I can never again experience the thrill and joy of lap dances from sexy young strippas again?

    I have been coping with my dancer-withdrawal-itch by turning to virtual reality (VR) stripper cam girls, which (with a good VR headset) is very impressive. Obviously, I can't feel anything like with a lap dance, but, as far as my visual senses, it is very immersive, as though they are dancing just a couple of feet in front of me. My eyes are completely fooled, but, the rest of my body knows its not the real thing. What is sadly missing is the technology that makes you feel physical contact. I don't mean just a masturbation toy (there already are masturbation toys that sync with videos), but, something that makes you feel like the dancer is sitting on your lap, putting her arms on your shoulders, etc. I've read about VR suits that imitate touch and feel sensations, but, I think they are still in sci-fi territory for now.

    How are other coping with strip club withdrawal? (Both dancers and custies.)
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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    I refuse to participate in any virtual reality activity.

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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    I already had a vanilla job which paid well before the pandemic. To stave off boredom of having three days off in a week and not much to do away from the house, I picked up a job driving tow trucks (something I already have experience in) for two days a week. Disability from the military certainly helps, as well. I also have experience in two-way radio which I’m able to monetize.

    All in all, I’m doing just fine, and don’t intend on going back when the clubs reopen. I never really had much of an online presence, and I haven’t really sought to try. I have Snapchat (which I haven’t used in forever) and an Instagram account which has more photos of two way radios I’m selling, tools I’ve bought, and my Beagle than of me, but I never made a business venture out of those. Never really felt a need to, and I wouldn’t expect now to be the time to. In another thread I read in this sub forum just a minute ago, we had a regular fucking Nostradamus speak his piece, and over saturation of cam sites and other online mediums is one thing I think they were right about. If I were to do that, I think I would’ve had to have built it up and gained a solid following before the pandemic.
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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    I get money from my state for unemployment. It's not much (around 1500 $), but it covers my rent and food. I must add, I live in a very expensive european city and my rent only is around 1000 $.
    I am making some money online selling fetish clips, but it's crickets in compare what I made as a dancer (I make 5-20 $ / day, some days nothing). I have no "whales", sugar daddys, or any real fans who spend more than few $ on me.
    Not easy, but I can survive for now.

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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    Mix of your first two poll options.

    Both SO & I got furloughed in March & got unemployment payments. He put a few weeks of his into our savings and then went back to work last month. We could pay all the bills on just his income if necessary. He also gets nice little fringe benefits of free takeout meals and is able to literally help himself to the meat/fish inventory.

    I'm basically a dragon sitting on my hoard at this point. I had savings to begin with and I think my discretionary spending has equaled maybe a single week of pay this whole time. Literally all the rest of my UI payments got stashed and I don't feel comfortable spending any of it until I can go back to work safely.

    I thought about doing clips or camming, but frankly it just seems like a hassle for peanuts + your face on the internet. I intend to return to the club *eventually* but my state is a dumpster fire and it won't be safe for a while at this rate.

    I'm super fortunate to be in a relatively good position with all this. It gives me anxiety to think about the people who were not able to save much and are relying on the UI payments that are about to go away.
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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    Three stripclubs in Key West, and another in Islamorada about halfway up the Keys.

    One is still open as a juice bar, and doing pretty well with it. The rest are closed again for 'Lockdown #2', after 3 weeks being open.

    A lot of dancers are very upset, and many have moved or are working in less restricted parts of the country.

    Some have opened OnlyFans pages and/or are webcamming.

    I'm actually loving the break and doing artwork.

    All the various predictions I've seen about how stripclubs are doomed now, will never be the same again after all this, etc., are horseshit. We were slammed the first weekend we reopened, and did just fine the three weeks before the government shut us down again.
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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post
    Three stripclubs in Key West, and another in Islamorada about halfway up the Keys.

    One is still open as a juice bar, and doing pretty well with it. The rest are closed again for 'Lockdown #2', after 3 weeks being open.

    A lot of dancers are very upset, and many have moved or are working in less restricted parts of the country.

    Some have opened OnlyFans pages and/or are webcamming.

    I'm actually loving the break and doing artwork.

    All the various predictions I've seen about how stripclubs are doomed now, will never be the same again after all this, etc., are horseshit. We were slammed the first weekend we reopened, and did just fine the three weeks before the government shut us down again.
    i think areas where strip clubs are really popular and there’s tourism will survive this. But the podunk clubs in the middle of nowhere might not. Or the bigger city clubs that are expensive to maintain...it could go either way. So it’s not dependent on whether or not people will go, but how long they have to be shut down for and their individual financial situation.
    key west will always have tourism bc it’s a party area and you have the beach that will always bring people there. I’m actually worried for Las Vegas and Los Angeles clubs. But especially Vegas bc if they don’t have the tourism and conventions like they should....I could see those morphing into something else or closing. But none of us really know.
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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    Quote Originally Posted by jasmine22 View Post
    i think areas where strip clubs are really popular and there’s tourism will survive this. But the podunk clubs in the middle of nowhere might not. Or the bigger city clubs that are expensive to maintain...
    Good point.

    Even here, where we are more or less assured a 'comeback', a lot of long people are leaving and might never come back--long term employees as well as short term. So it will have an effect almost everywhere.

    And yes the clubs that don't have a solid financial backing will be shut down permanently in some areas.

    But the industry itself will survive.
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    Default Re: How Are Dancers Coping With the Pandemic

    I never thought the industry was doomed long term. I do think many clubs were not open long enough before getting locked back down to see the real extent of the changes.

    Ours were open for about 6 weeks and while it was "good", it was by a different standard - there were like, 5 girls max working on a Friday. If the normal 30 girls were there, it would have been very, very bad. Managers were begging us to come in, bartering to get some house fees. They changed to no floor dances and added another VIP option, surprise, so they could collect another cut from each sale. Club is not doing well financially, judging by all that. I agree that those without solid backings may end up out of business.

    My guess is that while the more reckless customers will flock back first and empty their pockets, that we are still going to face some lean times for a while after they run out of money & get the cabin fever out of their system. The rest of the public may not be so ready to come back for a while.
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    Thanks to a very loose definition of what qualifies as a “restaurant”, the clubs in my area are actually still open. Despite the fact the governor declared all bars closed down. Only one club is closed, but they haven’t been open at all, and I’ve heard it’s being remodeled at the moment.

    I have a part-time vanilla job thats been keeping me through since shutdowns, and plan to keep it until at least Thanksgiving. I want to quit by end of January 2021 at the latest. Just wait and see what happens. Been dragging my butt on getting into online stuff, but as time goes on I give less of a crap of anonymity. I’ve been dancing 4.5 years at this point, so I think I’m just committed to this industry at this point. I want to dip my toes into the damming world sometime in the next few months.

    I’m personally going well, so far so good.

    I agree with others in this thread about uncertain times ahead. Directly after opening the customers were SUPER NICE. Now it’s adjusted back to some are cool, others are dicks. My last shift wasn’t as good as it had been, but meh nothing to complain about for now.

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