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    The article found @ ( http://www.useless-knowledge.com/123...rticle173.html ) mixed with my recent (and first) experience of dancing for someone with a disability has prompted this post.

    ... It is patently ridiculous to force a nudie bar to make its lap dance room accessible to people confined to wheelchairs. ...
    Is it patently ridiculous? What is your thoughts ? Should nudie bars at least think about the disabled when they design the club ?

    All I know is that my current home club is okay in that area. For the first time ever in my dancing history, I was chosen to dance for a disabled guy. Unfortunately for him... he could only really feel with his head as he had only enough movement from the neck down to steer his wheelchair. Therefore he was more in it for the visual aspect of the dance and every so often I would rub my in his face.

    Regardless, this is interesting because the club that I now regularly visit in Rockhampton definately does NOT cater for the disabled. The private lap dance area is situated up a flight of stairs. I remember quite well when I first worked at that club and that there was a disabled person who wanted a dance from one of the dancers. The club wouldn't help this guy up/down the flight of stairs. Their suggestion? To do the private lap dance in the "dressing room"! The reason this is so horrific is that the dressing room is basically two small rooms separated by a sliding door: one of the rooms is the actual disabled toilet with the front small room kinda being the dancer dressing room in a way. The lighting is bright in there. It would have been humilating for the dancer and the patron to do a dance in such conditions. Of course due to how much of a trouble it was... it never happened.

    Whilst I understand that the disabled make a very very small minority of patrons who frequent strip clubs.... they do frequent them. That's the point. I personally feel they should be cater-ed for... I'm lucky my home club does.




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    First, that's a news item originally from 2002, so I don't know why the author of that diatribe doesn't specify its an old case, but that lack of clarity reinforces my generally low opinion of his perspective on the issue. (I searched but couldn't find an update.)

    I'm not a lawyer, but here, federal law (Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA) generally requires that reasonable accommodation be made to provide services in such cases, and the business has a certain amount of time to resolve a complaint before a lawsuit can be filed.

    My opinion is that clubs should take reasonable steps to make it possible for disabled customers to avail themselves of the same services as anyone else. Why not? Their money spends just as well as the next guy's or gal's. Each case is different, but our law apparently doesn't necessarily require nor does every situation dictate major remodeling; it may take merely a little advance planning and minor modifications or alternatives. I'd be willing to bet the issue doesn't even cross the minds of most management. Too many people use preposterous lines of reasoning (such as, "Well, what's next? A quadriplegic suing because he can't get the benefits of extras?") as an excuse to make no effort to accommodate.

    I think what you did for your customer is wonderful and should be standard operating procedure. It would make my night to be able to make someone's night in that fashion.

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    Just as a side note. I found the article thanks to it being linked to on the SW main page. I didn't actually search for it. Just thought it was interesting to read this article whilst also "dancing" for my first disabled person.


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    ive only done one wheelchair dance ever,and it was a lil strange, but ok.

    i always seem to get guys with missing fingers,legs etc,and i often cover the customers hands with my own,and find out, although im not shocked, i often notice the customer seems to get a lil bit edgy about it, i guess embarassed.


    i guess all clubs should try and make their club a disabled freindly place, cos they could lose money,say a rich bucks party with a disabled patron, are more likley not to come in...

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    Default Re: Patrons with Disabilities

    Am new here... and came along this post. I've been in a wheelchair now for 14 years after an auto accident when I was 16. Every month or so, I like visiting a club here outside Chicago. My expierence is most of the girls at the club were uncomfortable at first approaching and/or dancing for me. But it took just one girl to really change things; she grew up with a step-father who spent years in a chair. She sat down and just talked to me. After a couple visits she started introducing her friends to me. So best advice is if you're nervous or aprehensive about dancing for a guy in a wheelchair, just have a friendly chat first. If anyone has anyone more questions, feel free to ask me.

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    yes they should think of the disabled! i used to be in a wheelchair! i have quite a few disabled customers. they like me cause i can relate to them. when they come in, instead of trying to help them around like their infants, i let them get around on their own. that's what i wanted when i was in a wheelchair. i was tired of being viewed as helpless. i also give them hope that they can overcome anything. hell, i wasnt supposed to walk & now i dance in 6in heels!

    there's one guy who really made me happy. he was paralyzed & when he met me i showed him my injury and taught him all the cool tricks he could do in a wheelchair & to not take any crap about his disability. he got very inspired and came in to see me frequently. i was the one girl who danced for him like the wheelchair wasnt an issue. he got so inspired one day he came in to show off and walked around them club with his crutches for me! it was so cute!
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