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    I had to take a course in media ethics to get my journalism degree. I had to a sign a code of ethics to be certified as a yoga teacher. Many professions -- medicine and law come to mind -- require some sort of ethical oath before a person can be licensed to practice. If there were a stripper code of ethics, what would it look like?


    (Sooooo...this is what's on my mind after too little sleep and too much redbull.)

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    Don't talk to a customer OTC if you see him on the street unless he initiates conversation. This goes double if he's with a woman.

    Media ethics? Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

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    Don't sit and talk with anyone for free (for long periods of time)- you mess it up for the other girls by setting a bad example, and by 'cock blocking'.

    wait- would that count as 'ethics'? Ok, how about:

    Don't steal, from customers, coworkers, or the club

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    Strippers have ethics? Who knew?


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    1. Deceptive or Unlawful Customer Recruiting Practices
    No Stripper shall engage in any deceptive or unethical customer recruiting practice, including but not limited to stealing another stripper’s custy while she in onstage, or hustling custies at another dancer's tip rail. Strippers shall ensure that no statements, promises or testimonials are made which are likely to mislead customers beyond what is generally necessary to promote the “Stripper Fantasy” (i.e. do not tell them that you baby daddy just left you and you don’t have enough money to buy food for your 5 children with cancer.) No Stripper shall cause or require a customer to purchase more dances, Champagnes or VIPs than he or she is reasonably able to pay for. This goes double if said customer is wasted off his heiny.

    2. Products or Services, also “Extras”
    The offer of products or services for sale by Stripper shall be accurate and truthful as to price, quality, value, and quantity. Also, do not offer “Extras” unless you work in a club where such activity is legal and standard, lest you suffer a frightful beatdown by the other Strippers and risk termination. The more these services are offered, the harder it is for non-extras dancers to make that money.
    Subsection A. Dispensation of Free or Reduced-Cost Services
    No stripper is to sit at no cost for ungodly amounts of time drinking with men who have no intention of spending money. Again, this makes it harder for other dancers to make money. Also, no cost-cutting on dances. Whatever the club sets for standard prices, stick with it.

    4. Earnings Representations
    Strippers shall refrain from discussing nightly earnings with other strippers. Most of the other Strippers are lying anyway, and such discussions will inevitably result in nothing but drama.

    5. Participation in Drama
    Strippers are to refrain as much as reasonably possibly from participating in dressing room drama. This is most likely to be achieved by keeping to one’s self, not borrowing nor allowing others to borrow your clothing, spending as little time as possible in the dressing room, not discussing earnings (see Clause 4), and not bitching about other dancers.

    6. Personal Hygiene
    For the love of god, practice basic personal hygiene and endeavor even to have a classy look about your self. And eat a breath mint, for crying out loud.

    7. Newbies
    Yes, we all hate them. But all Strippers shall endeavor to be kind to the new girls, show them what’s up as long as it doesn’t interfere with your own time and money. Give them a break. You were once new, too, flailing about wildly onstage and sitting in the dressing room all night.

    8. Personal Style
    Strippers shall endeavor to have their own style and not simply gank the look and moves of another Stripper who seems to be doing better than you. She worked to cultivate her style—you need to put in the time to do so for yourself.

    9. Fellow Stripper Thievery
    Strippers are not to steal from other strippers, for these are your sisters. And also they will beat your ass if they find out.

    10. Amendments
    This Code may be amended only by majority vote and not by one loud-mouthed Stripper who has been at the club for, like, 100 years.
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    lol, *clap clap*. Perfect!

    There is only one there that I break regularly...

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    if another dancer is sitting at a custy's table, don't approach and start hustling him yourself.

    heh. this reminds me of last week...there's this one bitchy girl who takes it upon herself to give newbies a bunch of bullshit "rules" so she can cut them out of making any money. (one of them was "if i talk to a guy and then leave to talk to another guy, you can NOT talk to the first one; I've still got dibs on him and I might want to come back" wtf?) Apparently she didn't realize that I wasn't exactly new; I'd been there as a bartender and gotten the REAL rules from other dancers before I'd even started.

    anyway, she tells me this, along with a bunch of other bullcrap and a few things that made sense and were true...then not even an hour later, I'm sitting with a custy trying to get a dance, and she comes right up adn starts rubbing her tits on him and asking him to "go upstairs and play" with her. WTF WTF WTF? Telling me I can't approach any guy that she even so much as says hello to, and then coming right up and doing that?

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    For God's sake, if you see a certain bachelor trying to take a photo, whatever you do, don't break his camera, rip his shirt or otherwise humiliate him, because you'll never hear the end of it.

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    I'd hate to see that stripper that has been there for a hundred years because that'd make her like 118. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Madcap
    Strippers have ethics? Who knew?
    Hey, we're strippers, not oil executives, OK?

    I've got one:

    Strippers working in an environment where they shall come into direct contact with the customers shall endeavor to leave no trace of makeup, body glitter, or heavy perfume on said customer lest his significant other find evidence of his clubbing and prohibit future visits.

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    I LOVE THIS SITE!!!!!

    So I wake up, I'm tired, grumpy, still pissed off from a bad night at work last night...and I come here....


    And laugh my ass off.

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    How about this one...
    If a customer mistreats a fellow stripper it is acceptable to accidently spill his drink on his lap for your fellow stripper. ??? Is that do-able somehow?

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    Things I was thinking about when I started this thread:

    Is any customer fair game for anything the second he walks in the door? Do we owe them any consideration?

    Would you take advantage of a customer in an impaired state? Like, If a guy is clearly wasted, would you keep dancing for him? Would you encourage him to keep buying drinks if you were making a commission, or wanted to help out the waitress or curry favor with management? Would you try to talk him out of more money than he owes you, in the form of a fat tip? Would you try to talk him into a ridiculously fat tip for the waitress if she was your friend? Would you tell him he owed you more money then he did? Would you steal his wallet?

    To what extent would you interfere in a customer's personal life if he appeared to be a danger to himself or others? If he were staggering drunk, would you offer to call him a cab? If he wanted to leave the club completely shit-faced would you tell management, who would insist that he get a taxi? If a customer confessed to a crime such as pedophilia, child abuse, drug use, drug dealing, etc., would you report him to anyone, be it management or law enforcement?

    To what extent would you manipulate a customer's emotions for profit? Would you pretend to like a customer that you did not infact like? If a customer claimed to be in love with you, would you continue to dance for him? would you encourage him to come back to the club and spend time with you? Would you imply that you might one day be willing to see him outside the club, if that were not in fact the case? Would you tell him you were in love with him and wanted to meet him OTC and then make up reasons why you couldn't, like telling him that you're jealous ex-con ex-boyfriend might shoot you both?


    Obviously, some of the example above are business as usual, and some go way too far for most of us. Just curious where people draw the line.

    And yeah, Madcap, most strippers have some kind of ethics. Most would not, for instance, stab a customer to death in the parking lot and steal his car, even if they knew they could get away with it. I think a lot of us try to negotiate this ambiguous territory in a way that lets us sleep at night. But these questions do come up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xoxoGracexoxo
    And yeah, Madcap, most strippers have some kind of ethics. Most would not, for instance, stab a customer to death in the parking lot and steal his car, even if they knew they could get away with it.
    *Whew!*

    Boy, that's good to know! Now i don't have to worry about walking out to my car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel
    1. Deceptive or Unlawful Customer Recruiting Practices
    No Stripper shall engage in any deceptive or unethical customer recruiting practice, including but not limited to stealing another stripper’s man while she in onstage. Strippers shall ensure that no statements, promises or testimonials are made which are likely to mislead customers beyond what is generally necessary to promote the “Stripper Fantasy” (i.e. do not tell them that you baby daddy just left you and you don’t have enough money to buy food for your 5 children with cancer.) No Stripper shall cause or require a customer to purchase more dances, Champagnes or VIPs than he or she is reasonably able to pay for. This goes double if said customer is wasted off his heiny.
    Shouldn't this section also include ... "Strippers shall not hustle for dances from the tip rail while another dancer is on stage unless clearly invited over by a customer, and if customer does decide to leave tip rail for a dance, the stripper will ensure at least $1 is tipped to the dancer on stage prior to departing."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel
    6. Personal Hygiene
    For the love of god, practice basic personal hygiene and endeavor even to have a classy look about your self. And eat a breath mint, for crying out loud.
    ... and under no circumstance shall a stripper use baby oil.
    If you can't win. Make the fellow in front of you break the record.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel
    1. Deceptive or Unlawful Customer Recruiting Practices
    No Stripper shall engage in any deceptive or unethical customer recruiting practice, including but not limited to stealing another stripper’s man while she in onstage. Strippers shall ensure that no statements, promises or testimonials are made which are likely to mislead customers beyond what is generally necessary to promote the “Stripper Fantasy” (i.e. do not tell them that you baby daddy just left you and you don’t have enough money to buy food for your 5 children with cancer.) No Stripper shall cause or require a customer to purchase more dances, Champagnes or VIPs than he or she is reasonably able to pay for. This goes double if said customer is wasted off his heiny. ...
    Also to include the following:

    "Stripper shall not talk badly about another dancer to a customer or gossip with a customer about another dancer or club employee."

    "Stripper shall not lie to a customer who asks if another dancer is working by telling him she's not there in an attempt to sell a dance when the other dancer IS there."
    If you can't win. Make the fellow in front of you break the record.


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    So how long before we start the "Customer Code of Ethics" thread?


    Heh.
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    Excellent additions, Verf. Move to ratify.

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    Seconding that motion.
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

    "I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat." -- Anne Lamott

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    Grace, I see what you are asking...and yah, I think we do owe the customers consideration.

    Yes, we all get pissed at them because they can get drunk and horny and act like an ass....but without them, what would I be doing? 9-5 at some desk? I don't friggen think so!

    And not just as a stripper, but as a fellow human being...I cannot watch someone walk out the door who obviously is a danger to himself or others. And I cannot steal from someone...and if you take his money while he is obviously too impared to realize what he is doing, then I think you are stealing. I hear many other girls say, and I quote "It's not my problem..." But I think it is. But then again...i'm just one...and that was my two cents.

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    All men that come into the club are grown and legal adults. Everything they say and do in the club is thru their own choosing whether impaired or not. Since I am not their mother, sister or in any way related to this person in a family manner it is not part of my job description (as such) to "care" for these guys beyond what is reasonable (as a decent human being).

    Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (as such).


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    I hate to see guys leave drunk. I recommend that they drink soda or water if it's late and they tell me they're driving. I've yelled at our bouncers for letting guys leave obviously wasted. But, if a guy is really drunk, I'll let him keep getting dance after dance from me. He chose to get that way. I won't lie to him about how much he owes me, but if he drops money on the ground and doesn't notice, I will pick it up and keep it. Things that he does stupidly are his fault.

    If a customer admitted he dealt drugs, I don't care, I don't consider that to be something terrible. If a customer admitted to raping someone, beating his child, etc., yes, I would probably try to do something about it.

    I'm bad at pretending to like people. I can tolerate them, and smile a lot, but if a guy tells me he loves me and wants to see me all the time, I tell him, sorry, I have a bf, and it's not happening.

    I think something that needs to be added to the code of conduct is being professional. Show up on time, don't call off for no reason, go on stage when called, wear the correct thong/pasties, etc., don't be high or extremely drunk at work, bring your own supplies, and don't date/meet customers OTC. Find that woman in the club who seems really put together and with it, and try to be more like her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoldCoastGirl
    All men that come into the club are grown and legal adults. Everything they say and do in the club is thru their own choosing whether impaired or not.
    I agree with this, too. I'm big on the idea that everybody makes their own choices. The more people admit that their circumstances, however good or bad, arise from their decisions and are under control, the better off they are.

    Still, from time to time I run up against ambiguous (to me) situations. For example, one time a guy came in and told me that he had lost his job and had a family to support and he still wanted to spend a rather large ammount of money in a strip club "cheering himself up." I took his money, but felt a little bad, if not for him then for his family.

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    I agree. The man is trashed drunk - if he isn't buying the dances from you he will be buying them from somewhere else. He is, after all, a Big Boy, and if he's gonna throw his money at strippers til he's scraping nickels out of the console to eat ramen for the next week, it better be me that's taking it. LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xoxoGracexoxo
    Is any customer fair game for anything the second he walks in the door? Do we owe them any consideration?

    A: Would you take advantage of a customer in an impaired state?[/B] Like, If a guy is clearly wasted, would you keep dancing for him? Would you encourage him to keep buying drinks if you were making a commission, or wanted to help out the waitress or curry favor with management? Would you try to talk him out of more money than he owes you, in the form of a fat tip? Would you try to talk him into a ridiculously fat tip for the waitress if she was your friend? Would you tell him he owed you more money then he did? Would you steal his wallet?

    B: To what extent would you interfere in a customer's personal life if he appeared to be a danger to himself or others?[/B] If he were staggering drunk, would you offer to call him a cab? If he wanted to leave the club completely shit-faced would you tell management, who would insist that he get a taxi? If a customer confessed to a crime such as pedophilia, child abuse, drug use, drug dealing, etc., would you report him to anyone, be it management or law enforcement?

    [C]To what extent would you manipulate a customer's emotions for profit? Would you pretend to like a customer that you did not infact like? If a customer claimed to be in love with you, would you continue to dance for him? would you encourage him to come back to the club and spend time with you? Would you imply that you might one day be willing to see him outside the club, if that were not in fact the case? Would you tell him you were in love with him and wanted to meet him OTC and then make up reasons why you couldn't, like telling him that you're jealous ex-con ex-boyfriend might shoot you both?
    A custy is owed some consideration, about as much as he (individually) gives us.

    A: I would def keep dancing with a drunk custy. I know I'm doing a good job when the guy leaves empty walleted and grinning. I don't get a drink comission, but I don't encourage guys to get super trashed. just loose enough for some vip time. I would hint at a tip, but just a tiny bit, anything over subtle is rude and tacky. I always try to get guys to tip the waitress well, if he isn't. (happens very rarely) If he drops $ on the floor, I will pick it up, b/c it might as well be mine as anyone's. I won't steal from a custy.
    B: I would make sure he had a cab, if he's drunk. I would report it to management if someone "confessed to me" depending on the severity, I'd also contact the police.

    C: I pretend to like/lust after custys daily. Hell ya, if someone was "in love" with me I'd exploit it. Champagne rooms, tons of dances, and repete biz are the name of the game. It's not like he doesn't want them too. I might hint a bit about meeting, but very vaguely. (of my gosh, you're going to ____ I would love to go there) I would say I'm very busy with school, my other activities, and work, so the only time I'm available is while I'm at work.

    ^My own stripper ethics^

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