What I try to do when I DJ is to create erotic art with the dancers, as much as possible, while still trying to make money. It is a fine line to walk, and many of my friends who have not seen me in action scoff and laugh when I try to tell them about it (the filthy swine).
...if the exotic dance clubs publicly advertised their entertainment as art, they wouldn't be in business too long! Also, some dancers just aren't into it as artistic expression, plain and simple, and never will be. I would add that the view America in general takes of sexual entertainment (even our customers), precludes any attempt to lend it artistic merit.
Unfortunately, it is not just the customers who, if forewarned of this aesthetic trickery, would nip it in the bud. Ownership and management take a very dim (pun intended) view of this.
They much prefer the inane antics of these cheesy moron DJs, shrieking nonstop about T-shirts and "pussy" drinks, and saying nothing distinctive about any particular dancers, God forbid (I was actually told not to do this at the last place, and bucking this rule is one reason I'm gone).
My dream, if I do stick it out in this business, is to open a club where erotic art is precisely the point. If the advertising were handled correctly, and the artistic angle not implicitly or heavily emphasized, I think we could get rich very quickly. Lure them in with sex, and mesmerize them with sensuous, erotic art.
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