Acceptance of stripping in the USA

[FunkMonk]

Back in my Fort Stewart days I remember there being a couple of really nasty strip joints in Hinesville, GA. Seedy places that stunk like a grotesque mix of cheese and liquor. My god, I'll never be able to forget that stench.

[Ed Anger]

stunk like a grotesque mix of cheese and liquor.

Sounds like Waffle House at 3am.

[FunkMonk]

Sounds like Waffle House at 3am.

[katmai]

Even if you could - what with "lap dancing" and the like - would you want to with your buddies watching? Seems kinda off-putting to me.

Because your buddies are getting their own lap dances, ya weirdo.

Then why exactly are you bothering to go with your buddies? 

"Let's meet up and have painfully unrewarding pseudo-sex while we carefully ignore each other" - "sounds like a plan!"

Uh Mal, most places if you want a lapdance they take you to a different room or area then where you are sitting with your buddies watching the girls on stage.

[Ed Anger]

Sounds like Waffle House at 3am.

Or even worse, a Denny's near a hospital at 4am. A mix of drunks, worried to death family members and the psychotics that can't sleep mixed with the faint scent of bad food and body odor.

[Jacob]

There used to be a strip club in my neighbourhood. It was called - and I kid you not - URANUS.

I went there once, for a friend's stag. He'd picked it out because they had karaoke downstairs and he really liked karaoke. One thing I didn't get about the joint was that they had TVs everywhere, like a sports bar. So they had strippers going on, while you'd see ads for Budweiser or the NFL recap or whatever on the screens.

There was one of the servers who I could swear I knew from somewhere... took me a while to place her, but eventually I realized she'd used to be the cutest cashier at the place I used to get my groceries some years back. I guess she was making more money slinging drinks at a low rent strip club than ringing up vegetables.

The karaoke joint was pretty sketchy too. Full of drunk Asian kids into the gang aesthetic... but it kind of made sense since the place was run by Asian gangsters.

... anyways the area has gentrified. The underage hookers have moved on, you don't really find syringes around anymore and Uranus is, like so many other places, a Starbucks now.

[Malthus]

Uh Mal, most places if you want a lapdance they take you to a different room or area then where you are sitting with your buddies watching the girls on stage.

That makes it even less like a social setting. 

The whole thing makes little sense. I can understand ogling naked women, but why would you want to ogle naked women in concert with your buddies? Even if occasionally enlivened by leaving 'em to grind on one of those women?

[Malthus]

There is a strip club in Toronto called "House of Lancaster". It even has a coat of arms on it with the red Lancasterian rose! Classy! 

I wonder what odd bit of historical nerdom created that. And whether anyone has thought to create a rival "House of York" strip club nearby. 

[Viking]

There is a strip club in Toronto called "House of Lancaster". It even has a coat of arms on it with the red Lancasterian rose! Classy! 

I wonder what odd bit of historical nerdom created that. And whether anyone has thought to create a rival "House of York" strip club nearby.

To be blunt red roses is not something I wish to have associated with my establishment if I were anything but the most specialized of all kinds of specialized strip clubs. 

[Tonitrus]

I remember in San Antonio, the gate by our dorms on the base had a strip club right across the street.  It was apparently popular with all the foreign military students there (Lackland hosts the school where we teach English to military officers from other countries...mostly middle eastern at the time)...even if the outside was a gravel parking lot...

http://g.co/maps/trx9m

I like how the sign is badly censored. 

[Jacob]

To be blunt red roses is not something I wish to have associated with my establishment if I were anything but the most specialized of all kinds of specialized strip clubs.

You are not being blunt at all.

If you don't want social democrats around, you should just say so.

[Viking]

To be blunt red roses is not something I wish to have associated with my establishment if I were anything but the most specialized of all kinds of specialized strip clubs.

You are not being blunt at all.

If you don't want social democrats around, you should just say so.

meh, you can get hippy feminazis at all times of the month.

[MadImmortalMan]

There is a strip club in Toronto called "House of Lancaster". It even has a coat of arms on it with the red Lancasterian rose! Classy! 

I wonder what odd bit of historical nerdom created that. And whether anyone has thought to create a rival "House of York" strip club nearby.

Nude jousting!

[Admiral Yi]

OTOH, some time later I was on a pub-crawl in Peru Illinois with CCR and a collection of sundry reprobates.

Fucking Limey.  We won the goddamn war. 

[Eddie Teach]

I'd guess part of the disconnect between those that don't get 'it' and those who do, is in large part about accepting a higher level of commercialization of sex.

Commercialization is fine and dandy. It should still be private.