I've been going to strip clubs for over 40 years and have seen huge changes in the industry during that time. I thought maybe reviewing some of these changes might help some of you younger folks understand where some of your complaints come from.
For the sake of discussion, let me make some huge simplifying assumptions. Let's assume that there are 2 types of dancer - sluts and nice girls; 2 types of customer - slobs and nice guys; and 2 types of clubs - joints and gentlemen's clubs. When I first started going to clubs they were practically all of the sluts-slobs-joints variety. That was a big part of their draw, the slumming aspect, and lots of us older guys still enjoy that occasionally. But 15 years ago or so something new was added: clubs and dancers alike started to upgrade - the GC's and their nice girls and nice guys (which are disproportionally represented on this site) became a major (although still minority) part of the business. Virtually all of the recent industry growth has been in this category. (Interestingly, the moral majority is partly responsible for this trend - they shut down a lot of the mom-and-pop joints which were replaced by the better-financed chains and their GC's.)
But today there is a mismatch between supply and demand - the customer base didn't change as much as the clubs and dancers did, so there aren't enough nice guys to fill all the GC's. The clubs respond by attracting slobs to their nice clubs. Which works well for them but not so well for you ladies. So here's a dilemma - all you nice girls out there in your nice clubs have to deal with the slobs to make a decent income. Furthermore, the slobs see the higher prices and expect more, not less. And many of us nice guys have become much more selective too, eg. when I used to hang out in a joint where laps were $10 I'd buy some from many different girls, but now that they're $30 plus tip in my GC I'm much more selective. I'm guessing that the average girl in the joint I used to hang in made more money than an average girl in today's GC. The drop-dead gorgeous babe, the girl with the dynamite personality, and the sluts all probably do well in most GC's but the average girl doesn't. There's an oversupply of nice girls in clubs. It's a real dilemma for those girls who don't have anything special to set themselves apart.
But we should all stop blaming the sluts and slobs for our problems. Without them there would be no strip clubs. The customers haven't changed, the clubs and dancers have. That's a fact of life and we should all accept it as best we can. Or find something else to do.



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am a nice girl, but it's definitely, overall, a SSJ.
). Seems like these days there are only two kinds of stores making it. The discount stores (Wal-Mart, Target) and the really high end ones (Saks, Neimans etc...). The stores in the middle are struggling (Sears, etc...).
But even still, I've stated in other posts about how I don't think I'm perfect or look like a super-model. But I do take pride in taking care of myself and looking as good as I can. Even if I didn't have to dance again, I'd never be the type to gain a bunch of weight or let certain things slide, cause I enjoy living a very healthy lifestyle, that's just me, and what makes me happy, don't see anything wrong with that. It's not like I jump down my friends throats and tell them what they should and should not be doing everytime they drive through McDonald's...I don't try to force my healthy eating and exercise habits on everyone, and I don't down other women who even through proper diet and exercise will always have a curvy figure due to their genes. But I do think that there are a lot of strippers out there that could be taking a bit more pride in the profession and in their appearance nowadays.
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