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Poll
Question: Have you ever been to a strip club?
Option 1: Yes (USA) votes: 25
Option 2: Yes (ROTW) votes: 14
Option 3: No (USA) votes: 13
Option 4: No (ROTW) votes: 14
Option 5: I never leave my basement, and I have internet here (worldwide) votes: 0
Title: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
The mention in Caliga's AAR to roadside strip clubs with "college nights" decided me to create this thread, as it was something that had crossed my mind a couple of times.

So, my (admitedly incomplete) perception through anecdotes and the media is that strip/gentlemen clubs are way more accepted and/or legit in the States than anywhere else. Over here they're invariably seedy, but in the US you have the "co-ed paying her way through college" trope, for instance, and they're featured in mainstream media with normal middle-class people attending.

Is this perception correct? How frequented are they by forum members?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Maximus on May 02, 2012, 01:55:41 PM
In my somewhat limited experiences they are less accepted in the US than in Canada(Vegas excepted). Some places here they aren't allowed to actually strip.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Josephus on May 02, 2012, 01:59:00 PM
I believe in some States you can't mix alcohol with full nudity. So typically strippers were g-strings so the patrons can drink. But otherwise there's nothing illegitimate about them, I don't think.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:00:08 PM
Quote from: Maximus on May 02, 2012, 01:55:41 PM
In my somewhat limited experiences they are less accepted in the US than in Canada(Vegas excepted). Some places here they aren't allowed to actually strip.

Ok, feel free to lump Canada with the USA for poll purposes.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Grey Fox on May 02, 2012, 02:04:50 PM
I live in suburban hell of Montreal. I can walk to 4 strip club.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:10:03 PM
Way more accepted?

Not really in my experience at least not in regards of the women who work there and how they are viewed.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:13:32 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:10:03 PM
Way more accepted?

Not really in my experience at least not in regards of the women who work there and how they are viewed.

But what about the patrons? Is it entertainment for lowlife scum or acceptable for middle class peeps?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 02, 2012, 01:59:00 PM
I believe in some States you can't mix alcohol with full nudity. So typically strippers were g-strings so the patrons can drink. But otherwise there's nothing illegitimate about them, I don't think.

You're right;  for instance, in Ohio IIRC, they're juice bars.  No alcohol permitted.  But I'm not sure if that's a county-by-county thing, Monkey Anger can answer that.

Some ordinances vary from jurisdiction regarding the type of nudity permitted;  for instance, Baltimore City allows nipplage, but not Baltimore County.

And some jurisdictions don't allow women to enter as patrons, period.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Josephus on May 02, 2012, 02:14:52 PM
I don't think it's lowlife scum entertainment at all. Some of these clubs can be quite pricey. At least that's what GF tells me.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:15:44 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
Is this perception correct? How frequented are they by forum members?

I can safely say that I frequented them substantially more as adjunct to my duties than as a patron.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:16:32 PM
Well use to be part of Saturday night routine with my buddies back in San Diego, go to baseball game, then a bar and then end the night at Strip club...


I'll let you decide if I'm lowlife scum or middle class Larchie :P
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: stjaba on May 02, 2012, 02:18:29 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
The mention in Caliga's AAR to roadside strip clubs with "college nights" decided me to create this thread, as it was something that had crossed my mind a couple of times.

So, my (admitedly incomplete) perception through anecdotes and the media is that strip/gentlemen clubs are way more accepted and/or legit in the States than anywhere else.

Are you sure about that? I spent a week in Marbella in the summer of 2009. I noticed at least one or two "Lap Dance Clubs" (I think is what they were called). They were in a nice touristy part of town and obviously catered to the British tourists. Anyways, the strip clubs actually looked nicer(at least from the outside) than the strip clubs in Florida.

Anyways, in the US, I think attitudes vary by region. In Florida, they are quite prevalent. Tampa is particularly well known for having a lot of strip clubs. There's a six foot rule in Tampa(i.e. can't get within six feet of a nude stripper) that is universally ignored.

I think the general attitude is that strips clubs are low class(from both a customer and employee standpoint), but obviously they are well patronized regardless, including by plenty of middle class and wealthy people. Also, obviously, there are a range of establishments from high end to low end. In the low end places it is not uncommon to be able to have sex in a back room. This is true for Asian massage parlors, spas, or lingerie modelling studios etc. also.


Edit:

One last point- there was a story in Tampa Bay Times recently about the local strip clubs remodeling, bringing in out of town strippers, etc. for the Republican National Convention in late August. They've had to bring in out of town strippers in the past when the Super Bowl was in town too. So, obviously there's plenty of wealthy patronage of strip clubs.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:20:40 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PM

Some ordinances vary from jurisdiction regarding the type of nudity permitted;  for instance, Baltimore City allows nipplage, but not Baltimore County.

And some jurisdictions don't allow women to enter as patrons, period.

Yeah what is allowed varies greatly just by the jurisdiction as Seedy says.

San Diego if they served Alcohol was just topless club. Here in Alaska anything goes. It's actually a ritual to go with crewmembers on shoots to ABC (http://www.akbushcompany.com/) while they are up here, both the guys and girls.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:22:24 PM
Quote from: stjaba on May 02, 2012, 02:18:29 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
The mention in Caliga's AAR to roadside strip clubs with "college nights" decided me to create this thread, as it was something that had crossed my mind a couple of times.

So, my (admitedly incomplete) perception through anecdotes and the media is that strip/gentlemen clubs are way more accepted and/or legit in the States than anywhere else.

Are you sure about that? I spent a week in Marbella in the summer of 2009. I noticed at least one or two "Lap Dance Clubs" (I think is what they were called). They were in a nice touristy part of town and obviously catered to the British tourists. Anyways, the strip clubs actually looked nicer(at least from the outside) than the strip clubs in Florida.

Anyways, in the US, I think attitudes vary by region. In Florida, they are quite prevalent. Tampa is particularly well known for having a lot of strip clubs. There's a six foot rule in Tampa(i.e. can't get within six feet of a nude stripper) that is universally ignored.

I think the general attitude is that strips clubs are low class(from both a customer and employee standpoint), but obviously they are well patronized regardless, including by plenty of middle class and wealthy people. Also, obviously, there are a range of establishments from high end to low end. In the low end places it is not uncommon to be able to have sex in a back room. This is true for Asian massage parlors, spas, or lingerie modelling studios etc. also.

Well, I've rarely seen them over here, and the few ones that I saw were absolutely seedy places where you would most probably be beaten up by Russian mobsters or something like that. Never been to Marbella, though.

And I'm not even entering in Hooters style titty bars territory.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:25:05 PM
Actually Larchie another thing from personal observations, the cities I've lived in with larger Military presences (San Diego, Anchorage) they clubs were more accepted than Seattle or Philly. Just something I've noticed.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:26:40 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
So, my (admitedly incomplete) perception through anecdotes and the media is that strip/gentlemen clubs are way more accepted and/or legit in the States than anywhere else.

Son, you need to come to Vancouver to see a real strip club.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:27:37 PM
Phoenix, AZ has some smokin' ass strip clubs, with girls that work the professional circuit.  Gotta be up there with LA and Miami.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PMYou're right;  for instance, in Ohio IIRC, they're juice bars.  No alcohol permitted.  But I'm not sure if that's a county-by-county thing, Monkey Anger can answer that.

Some ordinances vary from jurisdiction regarding the type of nudity permitted;  for instance, Baltimore City allows nipplage, but not Baltimore County.

And some jurisdictions don't allow women to enter as patrons, period.
We have clubs that serve alcohol, allow women patrons and show live sex on the stage.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:29:54 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:13:32 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:10:03 PM
Way more accepted?

Not really in my experience at least not in regards of the women who work there and how they are viewed.

But what about the patrons? Is it entertainment for lowlife scum or acceptable for middle class peeps?

I can walk a few blocks, enter a strip club and in about one hour from now (ie when the markets close) it will be filled with stock broker types.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 02:30:20 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:27:37 PM
Phoenix, AZ has some smokin' ass strip clubs, with girls that work the professional circuit.  Gotta be up there with LA and Miami.
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:26:40 PM

Son, you need to come to Vancouver to see a real strip club.

It use be said Vancouver, Montreal, Tampa, Las Vegas were the best places for strip clubs.

LA is meh just because of the city ordances, or at least it use to be.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 02:30:56 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PM
but not Baltimore County.

Delaware was like that, but I still had buddies dragging me out to those establishments.  IIRC, in Philly topless was okay.  In West Virginia they allow the full monty.  I have vague memories of places in Fayetteville, NC and Colorado Springs-- they were topless but bottoms had to stay on.

I never went to one in Ohio.  The one local place east of town had to shut down as of Jan 1 of this year because the girls got caught too many times performing sex acts for money.  I imagine their New Years Eve party was a blast, knowing they'd go out of business the next day :D
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:31:42 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PMYou're right;  for instance, in Ohio IIRC, they're juice bars.  No alcohol permitted.  But I'm not sure if that's a county-by-county thing, Monkey Anger can answer that.

Some ordinances vary from jurisdiction regarding the type of nudity permitted;  for instance, Baltimore City allows nipplage, but not Baltimore County.

And some jurisdictions don't allow women to enter as patrons, period.
We have clubs that serve alcohol, allow women patrons and show live sex on the stage.

Yeah, Berlin and Amsterdam were way over the top.

edit: but what is the big deal with women patrons.  Those have always been allowed here.

Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:35:05 PM
For whatever reason strip clubs are much more liberal in Canada than in the US (even though our alcohol rules are generally more strict).  You can see so much you feel like a gynecologist at the end of the night.  No touching is about the only rule.

How are they perceived?  Well there is still definitely some stigma to it.  You don't generally drop "oh I went to the peelers last night" in the middle of an office conversation.  Not to say that there aren't some upscale strip clubs - there definitely are.  and they are definitely some dives as well.  Stock brokers might be going to the strip club, but they aren't telling their wives or girlfriends where they went drinking.

Back in university I would go from time to time.  In fact there was about one year where me and my buddies went a lot.  It was a fun atmosphere because we'd go and be loud and frankly not have to worry about trying to impress the women there.  Haven't been to one in years though at this point.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:37:21 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PMYou're right;  for instance, in Ohio IIRC, they're juice bars.  No alcohol permitted.  But I'm not sure if that's a county-by-county thing, Monkey Anger can answer that.

Some ordinances vary from jurisdiction regarding the type of nudity permitted;  for instance, Baltimore City allows nipplage, but not Baltimore County.

And some jurisdictions don't allow women to enter as patrons, period.
We have clubs that serve alcohol, allow women patrons and show live sex on the stage.

St. Pauli?

The only club of that style that comes to my mind in Spain is one in Barcelona called Bagdad, and they also go for the full gamut. The place actually is somehow historic, as it has been operating since '75, I guess they opened as soon as Franco kicked the bucket.

For the curious: http://www.bagdad.com (http://www.bagdad.com) (Extremely NSFW)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:37:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:35:05 PM
Stock brokers might be going to the strip club, but they aren't telling their wives or girlfriends where they went drinking.

You dont know many stock brokers do you BB.  There are some guys that eat their lunches there on a regular basis.  Its not something they think is shameful in anyway.

And their wives and girlfriends are mainly of the trophy variety.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 02:42:33 PM
My wife never believes me when I say this, but I never really enjoyed strip clubs that much.  Pretty much every time I've gone it was just to hang out with my friends. 
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:46:18 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:37:58 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:35:05 PM
Stock brokers might be going to the strip club, but they aren't telling their wives or girlfriends where they went drinking.

You dont know many stock brokers do you BB.  There are some guys that eat their lunches there on a regular basis.  Its not something they think is shameful in anyway.

And their wives and girlfriends are mainly of the trophy variety.

No, true.   There are "some" guys who do go there routinely, and freely talk about it.  But that attitude is not universal.

And I'm with derspeiss - I have nothing against strip clubs, and have had fun at them, but really only due to the company I went with.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:46:28 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 02:42:33 PM
My wife never believes me when I say this, but I never really enjoyed strip clubs that much.  Pretty much every time I've gone it was just to hang out with my friends.

Age does that to a guy. ;)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: garbon on May 02, 2012, 02:48:01 PM
Not sure I know what counts. I've been to bars where customers stripped and bars where dancers stripped but none of the places advertised themselves as strip clubs.

For the purposes of this I'll say no but that's because I have no interest.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:48:41 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:46:18 PM
No, true.   There are "some" guys who do go there routinely, and freely talk about it.  But that attitude is not universal.

Seriously?   How many stock brokers are there in the Yukon or Edmonton for that matter.

Its a broker convention at the strip clubs here.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:50:58 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:37:21 PMSt. Pauli?
Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if other big cities have such clubs as well, e.g. Cologne or Berlin. I have never looked for that kind of place though, so I can only guess. There are also "sex fairs" where they sell sex toys etc. and those might have live sex on the stage too.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if prostitution being legal or not has an influence on the number of strip clubs. As far as I can tell, there are more brothels here than strip clubs.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:52:36 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:48:41 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:46:18 PM
No, true.   There are "some" guys who do go there routinely, and freely talk about it.  But that attitude is not universal.

Seriously?   How many stock brokers are there in the Yukon or Edmonton for that matter.

Its a broker convention at the strip clubs here.

Thinking more in terms of lawyers.  I remember one guy in particular at Malthus' firm who was big into the strip club scene, everyone was sure his much younger wife was a former dancer.  There were some guys like that.

Yukon had no strip club.  But there was a big winter carnival for a week in February.  For some guys the biggest part of that week was that a local bar imported some strippers.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:53:32 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:50:58 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:37:21 PMSt. Pauli?
Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if other big cities have such clubs as well, e.g. Cologne or Berlin. I have never looked for that kind of place though, so I can only guess. There are also "sex fairs" where they sell sex toys etc. and those might have live sex on the stage too.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if prostitution being legal or not has an influence on the number of strip clubs. As far as I can tell, there are more brothels here than strip clubs.

It may.  Here, brothels are illegal, but not strip clubs.  So there are plenty of strip clubs, plus a number of discreet "massage parlours".
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 02:55:42 PM
I've never understood the notion of hanging out with your buddies to look at nude women. To my mind, looking at nude women is more of a solitary and private pursuit.  :D
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:59:26 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:50:58 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:37:21 PMSt. Pauli?
Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if other big cities have such clubs as well, e.g. Cologne or Berlin. I have never looked for that kind of place though, so I can only guess. There are also "sex fairs" where they sell sex toys etc. and those might have live sex on the stage too.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if prostitution being legal or not has an influence on the number of strip clubs. As far as I can tell, there are more brothels here than strip clubs.

Over here I think that all that sex energy is devoted to porn and prostitution rather than at stripping.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 03:00:33 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:53:32 PMIt may.  Here, brothels are illegal, but not strip clubs.  So there are plenty of strip clubs, plus a number of discreet "massage parlours".
Our brothels are obviously not particularly discrete.

MIGHT BE NSFW:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pascha_K%C3%B6ln.jpg
The whole building is Germany's biggest brothel and the big poster was shown during the world cup and reads "The world visiting female friends" which is a play on the world cup slogan.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:02:17 PM
My impression going to a strip club's a far more common thing in the US/NA. 

I live near a strip pub though, the unfortunately named 'Old Nag's Head', but I don't know anyone who would ever go.

I've been to a strip joint once.  With Americans.  Horrifying.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 03:05:21 PM
I've never gone, but yeah it's gotten less unusual. There are really nice clubs here from what I've heard. My wife wants to go try it out. I suspect the novelty would be over quickly.

I don't think there's much of a difference in the way it's viewed here compared to elsewhere in NA outside of the rural bible belt areas. Toronto is probably on par with Nevada, I'd guess. But obviously we have less restrictions. You can't smoke in there if they serve food, but that's for all restaurants. AFAIK you can get a lapdance from a fully nude dancer while being served whiskey at 6AM on a Sunday. As long as you don't light up.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:05:52 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:02:17 PM
I don't know anyone who would ever go.

You are almost as bad as the Yukon lawyer opining on the activities of stock brokers.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:06:43 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
We have clubs that serve alcohol, allow women patrons and show live sex on the stage.

We have Drunk and Disorderly, illegal prostitution, and puritanical ethics.

Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 03:08:32 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:06:43 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
We have clubs that serve alcohol, allow women patrons and show live sex on the stage.

We have Drunk and Disorderly, illegal prostitution, and puritanical ethics.

GOD DAMN AMERICA!
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:08:55 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:06:43 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
We have clubs that serve alcohol, allow women patrons and show live sex on the stage.

We have Drunk and Disorderly, illegal prostitution, and puritanical ethics.

Dont forget stand your ground.  You have that to fall back on when all else fails.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:05:52 PM
You are almost as bad as the Yukon lawyer opining on the activities of stock brokers.
Most of my best friends are straight :lol:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:11:35 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:05:52 PM
You are almost as bad as the Yukon lawyer opining on the activities of stock brokers.
Most of my best friends are straight :lol:

Dont spoil a good joke. :mad:

come to think of it, I dont remember seeing any strip clubs in London.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: mongers on May 02, 2012, 03:17:48 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:05:52 PM
You are almost as bad as the Yukon lawyer opining on the activities of stock brokers.
Most of my best friends are straight :lol:

I'm with Shelf, I couldn't imagine going to one, and I doubt any of my friends, other than theex-military and current bankers, would have 'actively' gone to one. 

To me, it would seem like an incredibly tacky thing to do, after all us Brits aren't that good at any public portrayal of congress or sexualness.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:19:59 PM
Actually I've two friends who've been to strip clubs.  One works in the city.  The other was very drunk at his birthday and got taken to a strip club in Portsmouth (God help us) :( 

He did get a good story out of it though.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 03:21:28 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 02:55:42 PM
I've never understood the notion of hanging out with your buddies to look at nude women. To my mind, looking at nude women is more of a solitary and private pursuit.  :D


To me the sticking point is not being able to do anything with them once you're done looking.  At the nude women, that is.  Not your buddies.

When I was single, at least, I'd rather have taken my chances at a bar.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Jacob on May 02, 2012, 03:24:17 PM
There's a distinct sub-section of game devs who enjoy going to strip joints with some frequency, at least here in Vancouver. At the last place I worked, there was a crew who'd go at least once a week, and often would end up there after a night on town.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 03:30:29 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 03:21:28 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 02:55:42 PM
I've never understood the notion of hanging out with your buddies to look at nude women. To my mind, looking at nude women is more of a solitary and private pursuit.  :D


To me the sticking point is not being able to do anything with them once you're done looking.  At the nude women, that is.  Not your buddies.

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.

QuoteWhen I was single, at least, I'd rather have taken my chances at a bar.

Agreed.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 03:30:29 PM


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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 02, 2012, 03:33:13 PM
Quote from: Zanza on May 02, 2012, 02:50:58 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:37:21 PMSt. Pauli?
Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if other big cities have such clubs as well, e.g. Cologne or Berlin. I have never looked for that kind of place though, so I can only guess. There are also "sex fairs" where they sell sex toys etc. and those might have live sex on the stage too.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if prostitution being legal or not has an influence on the number of strip clubs. As far as I can tell, there are more brothels here than strip clubs.

Sounds like Frankfurt (am Main) as well. With all the FKK/Eros centers etc. offer all over Germany, I can see why. Lots of US servicemen in the area as well though ;)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:35:02 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 02, 2012, 03:17:48 PM
To me, it would seem like an incredibly tacky thing to do, after all us Brits aren't that good at any public portrayal of congress or sexualness.

I can appreciate that;  hell, even your porn sucks.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:38:23 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 03:30:29 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 03:21:28 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 02:55:42 PM
I've never understood the notion of hanging out with your buddies to look at nude women. To my mind, looking at nude women is more of a solitary and private pursuit.  :D


To me the sticking point is not being able to do anything with them once you're done looking.  At the nude women, that is.  Not your buddies.

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.

QuoteWhen I was single, at least, I'd rather have taken my chances at a bar.

Agreed.

But that was the one nice thing about the strip club.  You're NOT there to pick up women.  Sometimes going to the bar with my buddies (who were about the same level of geeky as me - geeky, but not utterly repellent to women) everyone was trying to act too "cool".  At the strip club you didn't give a shit.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:41:03 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:38:23 PM
But that was the one nice thing about the strip club.  You're NOT there to pick up women.  Sometimes going to the bar with my buddies (who were about the same level of geeky as me - geeky, but not utterly repellent to women) everyone was trying to act too "cool".  At the strip club you didn't give a shit.

Yeah, but neither do they.  There are very, very few examples in life where you spend more money for less of a return to show for it than a strip club.

Only two words matter in a strip club, or you're just wasting your time:  Out. Call.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:43:54 PM
When I was single I preferred going to bars and night clubs with my friends.    After I got married I much preferred going for drinks with my single friends at the strip clubs. 

Now that we are all married we just go to eachothers houses and drink wine you couldnt get at either bars or strip clubs. :showoff:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:50:23 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 02:14:48 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 02, 2012, 01:59:00 PM
I believe in some States you can't mix alcohol with full nudity. So typically strippers were g-strings so the patrons can drink. But otherwise there's nothing illegitimate about them, I don't think.

You're right;  for instance, in Ohio IIRC, they're juice bars.  No alcohol permitted.  But I'm not sure if that's a county-by-county thing, Monkey Anger can answer that.

Some ordinances vary from jurisdiction regarding the type of nudity permitted;  for instance, Baltimore City allows nipplage, but not Baltimore County.

And some jurisdictions don't allow women to enter as patrons, period.

Correct. Booze = Boobies only.

Also, many towns here will fight tooth and nail to make sure adult businesses stay the fuck out.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:51:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:41:03 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:38:23 PM
But that was the one nice thing about the strip club.  You're NOT there to pick up women.  Sometimes going to the bar with my buddies (who were about the same level of geeky as me - geeky, but not utterly repellent to women) everyone was trying to act too "cool".  At the strip club you didn't give a shit.

Yeah, but neither do they.  There are very, very few examples in life where you spend more money for less of a return to show for it than a strip club.

Only two words matter in a strip club, or you're just wasting your time:  Out. Call.

I dunno (and remember these are my memories from one particular year when I did go to strip clubs with frequency).

Instead of the usual perverts and creeps who just sit there and stare the peelers seemed to appreciate when a nunch of college students would show up and inject some life into things, even without spending a lot of money.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: mongers on May 02, 2012, 03:53:44 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:51:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:41:03 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:38:23 PM
But that was the one nice thing about the strip club.  You're NOT there to pick up women.  Sometimes going to the bar with my buddies (who were about the same level of geeky as me - geeky, but not utterly repellent to women) everyone was trying to act too "cool".  At the strip club you didn't give a shit.

Yeah, but neither do they.  There are very, very few examples in life where you spend more money for less of a return to show for it than a strip club.

Only two words matter in a strip club, or you're just wasting your time:  Out. Call.

I dunno (and remember these are my memories from one particular year when I did go to strip clubs with frequency).

Instead of the usual perverts and creeps who just sit there and stare the peelers seemed to appreciate when a nunch of college students would show up and inject some life into things, even without spending a lot of money.

You know it's all an act ? :unsure:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:54:04 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:50:23 PM
Correct. Booze = Boobies only.

The problem with the US summarized as only Ed Anger can.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:55:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 02, 2012, 03:53:44 PM
You know it's all an act ? :unsure:

And that matter because?

When you enjoy a movie do you say to yourself,  "But its all just an act"?

Of course its an act.  That is the whole point BB is making.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:55:36 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:54:04 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:50:23 PM
Correct. Booze = Boobies only.

The problem with the US summarized as only Ed Anger can.

that is Ohio. I have no idea what the 49 other states and those territories are doing.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:57:44 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:55:36 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 03:54:04 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:50:23 PM
Correct. Booze = Boobies only.

The problem with the US summarized as only Ed Anger can.

that is Ohio. I have no idea what the 49 other states and those territories are doing.

The rest of the US allows Ohio, in all its backwardness, to continue to exist.  That is bad enough.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 03:58:57 PM
 :boring:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 04:03:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:51:28 PM
Instead of the usual perverts and creeps who just sit there and stare the peelers seemed to appreciate when a nunch of college students would show up and inject some life into things, even without spending a lot of money.

Which is why all the girls hit the kiddies;  they know they can suck you dry, and don't have to worry about pervy/creepy shit because they know you're too timid to ask them for shit.
You're a sucker mark, and don't even realize it.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Viking on May 02, 2012, 04:05:45 PM
I remember my first stipper, she was the chubby one, zeroed in on the "gosh darn'it it's my first trip to the titty bar" look in my eyes, jumped on my lap, told me she was going to give me a lap dance and then dragged me off to the dimly lit alcove with the comfortable chair.

At that point I realized why hott women in their 30s complain about there not being any good men left, it's because the chubby ones realizing they had to act picked the good men in their 20s dragged them off to a church and married them.

After handing over the AU$ 50 I sat there stunned wondering what happened. A few dances later I realized that this was just evil horror, getting me all horny and then leaving me hanging? It's just cruel!
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: mongers on May 02, 2012, 04:08:59 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 04:03:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:51:28 PM
Instead of the usual perverts and creeps who just sit there and stare the peelers seemed to appreciate when a nunch of college students would show up and inject some life into things, even without spending a lot of money.

Which is why all the girls hit the kiddies;  they know they can suck you dry, and don't have to worry about pervy/creepy shit because they know you're too timid to ask them for shit.
You're a sucker mark, and don't even realize it.

Thanks for elaborating on my point, with some further concrete, real world experience. 

I'd say the vast majority of women are in this line of work solely for the much higher money/effort ratio they can get compared to the other work they're qualified to do.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 04:10:27 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 04:03:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 03:51:28 PM
Instead of the usual perverts and creeps who just sit there and stare the peelers seemed to appreciate when a nunch of college students would show up and inject some life into things, even without spending a lot of money.

Which is why all the girls hit the kiddies;  they know they can suck you dry, and don't have to worry about pervy/creepy shit because they know you're too timid to ask them for shit.
You're a sucker mark, and don't even realize it.

How could we be suckers - we didn't have any money.  I mean we'd get loaded before going out so we didn't have to buy the over-priced drinks.

I mean I guess we threw the odd loonie at them, but we sure weren't paying for lap dances and what not.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Kleves on May 02, 2012, 04:21:24 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:31:42 PM
but what is the big deal with women patrons.  Those have always been allowed here.
It's a strip club! You can't have women there!
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:22:45 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 02, 2012, 03:19:59 PM
Actually I've two friends who've been to strip clubs.  One works in the city.  The other was very drunk at his birthday and got taken to a strip club in Portsmouth (God help us) :( 

He did get a good story out of it though.

A strip club in Portsmouth  :lol: , I believe Dante put that somewhere in the 6th circle of hell, certainly in the City of Dis  :D
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 04:23:51 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 02, 2012, 04:08:59 PM
I'd say the vast majority of all the women are in this line of work solely for the much higher money/effort ratio they can get compared to the other work they're qualified to do.

fyp - they sure are not there for the fun of it.

But, again, how does that change anything.  Who walks into a place like that and thinks the girls are genuinely interested in them?  Who doesnt know the girls are there to make money?  To be a mark, as CdM put it, one would have to be oblvious to these facts.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:24:02 PM
I just had visions of a Geordie strip club.  :cry:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:30:35 PM
Ages ago KAP took me (and certain others) to the "largest gentlemans club in the world" in Las Vegas. I have honestly never been so limp and unmoved, it was about as sexy as Smithfield market but without the utility.

OTOH, some time later I was on a pub-crawl in Peru Illinois with CCR and a collection of sundry reprobates. At one of the bars a couple of women came in and did a half-assed strip for our delectation. They were not very good, or apparently not very good, but the whole thing was rather pleasant.......it was like a couple of the girls next door were short of a few bucks and decided to entertain us guys to get the shortfall.

Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:31:50 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:30:35 PM
Ages ago KAP took me (and certain others) to the "largest gentlemans club in the world" in Las Vegas. I have honestly never been so limp and unmoved, it was about as sexy as Smithfield market but without the utility.

OTOH, some time later I was on a pub-crawl in Peru Illinois with CCR and a collection of sundry reprobates. At one of the bars a couple of women came in and did a half-assed strip for our delectation. They were not very good, or apparently not very good, but the whole thing was rather pleasant.......it was like a couple of the girls next door were short of a few bucks and decided to entertain us guys to get the shortfall.

Thanks a lot tricky :(


Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: stjaba on May 02, 2012, 04:31:59 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 04:10:27 PM

I mean I guess we threw the odd loonie at them, but we sure weren't paying for lap dances and what not.

You gave coins to the strippers? That just seems odd because in the US the custom is give them dollar bills. Seems kind of awkward to do it any other way.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:33:51 PM
Quote from: stjaba on May 02, 2012, 04:31:59 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 04:10:27 PM

I mean I guess we threw the odd loonie at them, but we sure weren't paying for lap dances and what not.

You gave coins to the strippers? That just seems odd because in the US the custom is give them dollar bills. Seems kind of awkward to do it any other way.

They have a built in coin slot.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:34:22 PM
I've dated three strippers in last ...ugh 19 years now.

It's just a job, they don't go to work looking to meet guys at all.


Oh and never met the women i dated in club, knew them through friends or met outside of work.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:34:39 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:31:50 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:30:35 PM
Ages ago KAP took me (and certain others) to the "largest gentlemans club in the world" in Las Vegas. I have honestly never been so limp and unmoved, it was about as sexy as Smithfield market but without the utility.

OTOH, some time later I was on a pub-crawl in Peru Illinois with CCR and a collection of sundry reprobates. At one of the bars a couple of women came in and did a half-assed strip for our delectation. They were not very good, or apparently not very good, but the whole thing was rather pleasant.......it was like a couple of the girls next door were short of a few bucks and decided to entertain us guys to get the shortfall.

Thanks a lot tricky :(

hmmm......ok..........a fine collection of sundry reprobates  :P
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:38:08 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:34:22 PM
I've dated three strippers in last ...ugh 19 years now.

It's just a job, they don't go to work looking to meet guys at all.


Oh and never met the women i dated in club, knew them through friends or met outside of work.

Wait, you dated strippers?

You are a braver man than me.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:39:26 PM
He only ever drinks orange juice before sex of course  :cool:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:42:35 PM
Strippers are soiled doves. :goodboy:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 04:42:40 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 04:03:56 PM
Which is why all the girls hit the kiddies;  they know they can suck you dry, and don't have to worry about pervy/creepy shit because they know you're too timid to ask them for shit.
You're a sucker mark, and don't even realize it.

I was 22 when I went to the place in Colorado Springs.  A couple of the girls acted really odd when I showed a lack of interest in lap dances or buying them drinks.  I wasn't about to blow my measly ROTC cadet pay for that summer on them.  One of them wouldn't stop talking to me & she ended up buying me a drink :D
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Viking on May 02, 2012, 04:43:12 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:39:26 PM
He only ever drinks orange juice before sex of course  :cool:

It's either that or eat asparagus. Maybe one of our languish gheys can tell us?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:45:51 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:38:08 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:34:22 PM
I've dated three strippers in last ...ugh 19 years now.

It's just a job, they don't go to work looking to meet guys at all.


Oh and never met the women i dated in club, knew them through friends or met outside of work.

Wait, you dated strippers?

You are a braver man than me.

Oh you've done many a thing us mere mortal men dream of el jefe


:P

First one was when i was 19 and she was 27... good times.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 04:49:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:38:08 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 04:34:22 PM
I've dated three strippers in last ...ugh 19 years now.

It's just a job, they don't go to work looking to meet guys at all.


Oh and never met the women i dated in club, knew them through friends or met outside of work.

Wait, you dated strippers?

You are a braver man than me.

When I got to be a pretend-2nd Lieutenant I had to have a talk with one of the soldiers in my platoon who was all depressed that his stripper-wife left him.  He kept asking why crap like this has to happen to him & I kept telling him, "Dude, because you MARRIED A STRIPPER.  Use better judgment next time."

Needless to say, the brightest bulbs in the Army don't tend to end up in the motor pool.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 04:50:59 PM
There's a couple in my area.  Never went.  I have a feeling that doesn't surprise any of you.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Tonitrus on May 02, 2012, 04:56:39 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 03:05:21 PM
I've never gone, but yeah it's gotten less unusual. There are really nice clubs here from what I've heard. My wife wants to go try it out. I suspect the novelty would be over quickly.

If I pass back through that way in the next couple of months, we should totally go.  :P

(note: I have never been to one either)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: derspiess on May 02, 2012, 04:57:37 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 02, 2012, 04:56:39 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 03:05:21 PM
I've never gone, but yeah it's gotten less unusual. There are really nice clubs here from what I've heard. My wife wants to go try it out. I suspect the novelty would be over quickly.

If I pass back through that way in the next couple of months, we should totally go.  :P

(note: I have never been to one either)

Do it and live blog your experience!!!!
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:59:58 PM
I should go back to Ft. Knox and stop in every one of those 'Thoroughbred' strip clubs you pass getting there. Then again, they ruined Ft. Knox. HUMAN RESOURCES? WHERE ARE THE TANKS?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:10:30 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 03:30:29 PM


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!"
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: mongers on May 02, 2012, 05:22:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: FunkMonk on May 02, 2012, 05:29:34 PM
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. :bleeding:


Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 05:31:04 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 02, 2012, 05:29:34 PM
stunk like a grotesque mix of cheese and liquor.

Sounds like Waffle House at 3am.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: FunkMonk on May 02, 2012, 05:33:22 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 05:31:04 PM
Sounds like Waffle House at 3am.

:bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 05:33:34 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:10:30 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 03:31:48 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 03:30:29 PM


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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 05:38:47 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 02, 2012, 05:33:22 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 05:31:04 PM
Sounds like Waffle House at 3am.

:bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:

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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Jacob on May 02, 2012, 05:39:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:43:16 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 05:33:34 PM
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.  :hmm:

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?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:47:05 PM
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!  :lol:

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. 
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Viking on May 02, 2012, 05:48:48 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:47:05 PM
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!  :lol:

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. 
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Tonitrus on May 02, 2012, 05:49:38 PM
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.  :D

Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Jacob on May 02, 2012, 05:49:54 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 02, 2012, 05:48:48 PMTo 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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Viking on May 02, 2012, 05:51:23 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 02, 2012, 05:49:54 PM
Quote from: Viking on May 02, 2012, 05:48:48 PMTo 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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 05:55:22 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:47:05 PM
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!  :lol:

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!
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 05:56:54 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 02, 2012, 04:30:35 PM
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.  :mad:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 02, 2012, 06:41:39 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 02, 2012, 05:22:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 06:59:49 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:59:58 PM
I should go back to Ft. Knox and stop in every one of those 'Thoroughbred' strip clubs you pass getting there.
:cool:

Quote
Then again, they ruined Ft. Knox. HUMAN RESOURCES? WHERE ARE THE TANKS?
:yes:  :mad:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 07:05:46 PM
My favorite strip club sign is at a place in Jersey right across the Delaware River from Philadelphia... it's literally right there as you cross the bridge, in gigantic red letters:

NUDE GIRLS SEX SHOW

Every time we crossed that bridge when I was a kid my dad would make a joke about needing to stop in, and my mom would slap him.  Every single freaking time, like they were animatronic or something.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 07:07:45 PM
America, Fuck Yeah.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 07:26:57 PM
QuoteRight:
Executive Car Leasing
3000 Admiral Wilson Boulevard (Camden, NJ)

A Rambler dealership in the mid-1960s, In the late 1970s, this building was remodeled, the windows covered over, and the building painted white. 3000 Admiral Wilson Blvd was the home of the notorious "Live Nude Girl Sex Show" until 2000, when all of  the buildings on the south side of the highway were razed.
GOD DAMN AMERICA! :(
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:28:38 PM
That was the actual name of the establishment?  :lol:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 07:35:09 PM
I dunno, but here's a later iteration of their sign (my memories are from the 1980s):

http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-streets/AWB/1300awb-1990s-001.jpg (http://www.dvrbs.com/camden-streets/AWB/1300awb-1990s-001.jpg) (maybe NSFW)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 07:38:06 PM
I remember thinking Jersey was a 'cooler' state because there were titty bar billboards right on the highway.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 07:41:09 PM
Ah, ok, I think I found it... looks like it was actually called 'Fantasy' and since its old building was torn down, they moved to a new location further down the Black Horse Pike:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=710+N+Black+Horse+Pike,+Mount+Ephraim,+New+Jersey+08059&hl=en&ll=39.888006,-75.088849&spn=0.00088,0.001742&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,114.169922&t=h&hnear=710+N+Black+Horse+Pike,+Mt+Ephraim,+New+Jersey+08059&z=20&layer=c&cbll=39.888006,-75.088849&panoid=DXdp2mAq8fXIFyLQfrPERg&cbp=12,75.07,,0,12.19 (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=710+N+Black+Horse+Pike,+Mount+Ephraim,+New+Jersey+08059&hl=en&ll=39.888006,-75.088849&spn=0.00088,0.001742&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,114.169922&t=h&hnear=710+N+Black+Horse+Pike,+Mt+Ephraim,+New+Jersey+08059&z=20&layer=c&cbll=39.888006,-75.088849&panoid=DXdp2mAq8fXIFyLQfrPERg&cbp=12,75.07,,0,12.19)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Lettow77 on May 02, 2012, 07:41:59 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 02, 2012, 03:17:48 PM

I'm with Shelf, I couldn't imagine going to one, and I doubt any of my friends, other than theex-military and current bankers, would have 'actively' gone to one. 

To me, it would seem like an incredibly tacky thing to do, after all us Brits aren't that good at any public portrayal of congress or sexualness.

As expected of Mongers  :bowler:

It goes without saying, but I'd never go myself. The defiled world at its most egregious.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 07:43:10 PM
Of course a thread on titty bars would attract Caliga spam posts like Martinus to a rack of sandals.
:P
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 08:11:15 PM
You'll have to forgive me as I'm not allowed to go anymore. :(
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 02, 2012, 09:59:19 PM
Quote from: Lettow77 on May 02, 2012, 07:41:59 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 02, 2012, 03:17:48 PM

I'm with Shelf, I couldn't imagine going to one, and I doubt any of my friends, other than theex-military and current bankers, would have 'actively' gone to one. 

To me, it would seem like an incredibly tacky thing to do, after all us Brits aren't that good at any public portrayal of congress or sexualness.

As expected of Mongers  :bowler:

It goes without saying, but I'd never go myself. The defiled world at its most egregious.

If havent been to a quality Strip Club, GO. Quit acting like a bunch of fairies.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 02, 2012, 09:59:19 PM

If havent been to a quality Strip Club, GO. Quit acting like a bunch of fairies.

But Malthus feels conflicted when he sees naked women when he is with guys.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:02:16 PM
Yeah, nothing says "straight", like hanging out with a bunch of guys with hard ons.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 02, 2012, 10:04:09 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:02:16 PM
Yeah, nothing says "straight", like hanging out with a bunch of guys with hard ons.
:rolleyes: Then stay in the basement of your mom's house. :moon:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 10:04:17 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 02, 2012, 09:59:19 PM

If havent been to a quality Strip Club, GO. Quit acting like a bunch of fairies.

But Malthus feels conflicted when he sees naked women when he is with guys.

Fucking weirdo.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 10:18:13 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 02, 2012, 10:04:17 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 02, 2012, 09:59:19 PM

If havent been to a quality Strip Club, GO. Quit acting like a bunch of fairies.

But Malthus feels conflicted when he sees naked women when he is with guys.

Fucking weirdo.

Hey, speaking of weirdos, which one's the poster with the Peter North fetish? I forget.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 02, 2012, 10:21:00 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:02:16 PM
Yeah, nothing says "straight", like hanging out with a bunch of guys with hard ons.

Generally I am not looking at my friends' hardons and look at the girls.  But whatever makes you happy.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 02, 2012, 10:21:41 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 10:18:13 PM
Hey, speaking of weirdos, which one's the poster with the Peter North fetish? I forget.

Kaw-liga
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 02, 2012, 10:22:09 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 08:11:15 PM
You'll have to forgive me as I'm not allowed to go anymore. :(

Bachelor Parties are ok for my but all my friends are married now....which is kind of scary now that I think about it.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 10:22:25 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 02, 2012, 10:21:41 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 10:18:13 PM
Hey, speaking of weirdos, which one's the poster with the Peter North fetish? I forget.

Kaw-liga

Fucking weirdo.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 10:22:37 PM
@Cdm I just think he's an excellent actor. :)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:25:49 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 02, 2012, 10:21:00 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:02:16 PM
Yeah, nothing says "straight", like hanging out with a bunch of guys with hard ons.

Generally I am not looking at my friends' hardons and look at the girls.  But whatever makes you happy.

Hey, I'm not judging.  If you and friends want to pay to get blue balled and then go all lettow in the bathroom to blow off the excess steam, that's fine.  Like I said, I won't judge.  Much.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 02, 2012, 10:35:49 PM
Stop projecting your fantasies on the rest of us Raz.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Jaron on May 02, 2012, 10:48:38 PM
In Utah, strippers strip down to beach acceptable attire.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 02, 2012, 11:04:44 PM
Quote from: Jaron on May 02, 2012, 10:48:38 PM
In Utah, strippers strip down to beach acceptable attire.

Lame
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Drakken on May 03, 2012, 12:04:18 AM
It's a stagnating industy in Quebec, most all of them controlled by organized crime anyway, especially biker MC clubs.

We have lap dances with full contact here, but the fact that lap dances have been increased to 20$ per song has pushed away a lot of potential customers the last few years. Escorts are now cheaper, for more bang for the buck.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 03, 2012, 12:11:27 AM
Quote from: Jaron on May 02, 2012, 10:48:38 PM
beach acceptable attire.

:perv:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Sheilbh on May 03, 2012, 04:12:36 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 04:24:02 PM
I just had visions of a Geordie strip club.  :cry:
I think that's called the cloakroom.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Syt on May 03, 2012, 04:24:37 AM
I think peep shows are more frequent in Germany/Austria than strip joints. Also, certainly more brothels/"studios" than strip clubs in red light districts.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Brazen on May 03, 2012, 05:39:27 AM
Haven't been to a strip club per se but I've seen burlesque strip acts, which are to some extent the same but leave you with more money and dignity./
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 03, 2012, 05:49:04 AM
Dignity...bah, overrated in a strip club.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 03, 2012, 08:28:41 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on May 02, 2012, 05:55:22 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 02, 2012, 05:47:05 PM
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!  :lol:

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!

Jousting without armour would be very, very dangerous.

Sort of comparable to barebacking strippers, when you think of it.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 03, 2012, 08:29:49 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:02:16 PM
Yeah, nothing says "straight", like hanging out with a bunch of guys with hard ons.

:lol:

Raz gets in a zinger.   :punk:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 03, 2012, 08:40:36 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 10:25:49 PM
Hey, I'm not judging.  If you and friends want to pay to get blue balled and then go all lettow in the bathroom to blow off the excess steam, that's fine.  Like I said, I won't judge.  Much.

Ok you are trying way too hard here.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Josquius on May 03, 2012, 11:36:21 PM
No.
I've came close. Friends have gone in and I stayed at the door.
It just doesn't appeal to me. Paying to be teased pretty much. Its like going to a club and guarantied striking out. And its freaking expensive and until recently money has always been in very short supply for me.

No moral objections. Just seems a bit crap.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: DontSayBanana on May 04, 2012, 08:16:12 AM
Quote from: Caliga on May 02, 2012, 07:38:06 PM
I remember thinking Jersey was a 'cooler' state because there were titty bar billboards right on the highway.

Meanwhile, going the other way, there's Club Risque on the Schuylkill, right after you go over the Walt Whitman Bridge. :contract:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 08:29:17 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 03, 2012, 11:36:21 PM
Its like going to a club and guarantied striking out.

Why do some guys here think they are going with the expectation of picking someone up?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
I've been to two strip clubs. A seedier one and a high class one. didn't really like either experience. Although at the seedier one i had the very awkward experience of seeing a friends sister who i saw grow up. i had to leave lol
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 04, 2012, 08:35:22 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
I've been to two strip clubs. A seedier one and a high class one. didn't really like either experience. Although at the seedier one i had the very awkward experience of seeing a friends sister who i saw grow up. i had to leave lol

Why, was your friend with you?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Brazen on May 04, 2012, 08:44:48 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
seeing a friends sister who i saw grow up.
You were there a long time then.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 04, 2012, 09:13:58 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
I've been to two strip clubs. A seedier one and a high class one. didn't really like either experience.

I loved it.  I was rather surprised how much I did.  I had a fabulous time each time but sort of glad I am too poor and only did it during bachelor parties, I can see how addictive/expensive it could be so I am pretty glad I only went to strip clubs those couple times.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 10:51:04 AM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
The mention in Caliga's AAR to roadside strip clubs with "college nights" decided me to create this thread, as it was something that had crossed my mind a couple of times.

So, my (admitedly incomplete) perception through anecdotes and the media is that strip/gentlemen clubs are way more accepted and/or legit in the States than anywhere else. Over here they're invariably seedy, but in the US you have the "co-ed paying her way through college" trope, for instance, and they're featured in mainstream media with normal middle-class people attending.

Is this perception correct? How frequented are they by forum members?
There used to be a strip club in my home town.  It has since been destroyed by fire and the city voted a new rule to forbid this type of commerce.

Anyway, back in the time... being a small city, and this being a front for the Hell's Angels, the local club didn't exactly have the best girls of Quebec.  Mostly 40 or 50 years old women looking like 70, totally coked up, often so thin that you could almost see through them.
It used to be better when I was younger, but in the later years, that place wasn't really good.  Not that I'd go that often, but it was the best place to play pool in town.

Quebec city has some nice strip clubs though.  Appaently the best one is on the south shore in St-Romuald.  Never been there though.  It's been ages since I've been to a strip club.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 10:53:08 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 08:29:17 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 03, 2012, 11:36:21 PM
Its like going to a club and guarantied striking out.

Why do some guys here think they are going with the expectation of picking someone up?
if your pockets are deep enough, it's a very high probability that you can pick someone up.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 04, 2012, 11:24:29 AM
I find it hard to believe that 20 folks havent been. Get a good crew together and go have fun.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 04, 2012, 11:27:36 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
I've been to two strip clubs. A seedier one and a high class one. didn't really like either experience. Although at the seedier one i had the very awkward experience of seeing a friends sister who i saw grow up. i had to leave lol

Was she decent looking?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: lustindarkness on May 04, 2012, 12:03:25 PM
I have seen beer bottles sucked up off the floor, I have seen ping pong balls shot out, I have seen smoke rings come out, I have even seen some pretty girls that actually knew how to dance. :)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 04, 2012, 12:07:22 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on May 04, 2012, 12:03:25 PM
I have seen beer bottles sucked up off the floor, I have seen ping pong balls shot out, I have seen smoke rings come out, I have even seen some pretty girls that actually knew how to dance. :)

I'm imagining that being said by Rutger Hauer towards the end of Bladerunner  :cool:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: HVC on May 04, 2012, 12:22:15 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 04, 2012, 08:35:22 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
I've been to two strip clubs. A seedier one and a high class one. didn't really like either experience. Although at the seedier one i had the very awkward experience of seeing a friends sister who i saw grow up. i had to leave lol
Why, was your friend with you?
Hah, no. though that would have been interesting too. It was just weird. Seeing this girl i knew most of her life up on stage being oogled
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: HVC on May 04, 2012, 12:24:55 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 04, 2012, 11:27:36 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 08:31:49 AM
I've been to two strip clubs. A seedier one and a high class one. didn't really like either experience. Although at the seedier one i had the very awkward experience of seeing a friends sister who i saw grow up. i had to leave lol

Was she decent looking?
Beautiful girl. and smart enough not to be be a dancer. But she fucked up her life, and it started there.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 12:33:56 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 04, 2012, 12:07:22 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on May 04, 2012, 12:03:25 PM
I have seen beer bottles sucked up off the floor, I have seen ping pong balls shot out, I have seen smoke rings come out, I have even seen some pretty girls that actually knew how to dance. :)

I'm imagining that being said by Rutger Hauer towards the end of Bladerunner  :cool:

:lol:

The best laugh I've had all day.  :D
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: HVC on May 04, 2012, 12:37:23 PM
Now imagine Morgan freeman saying it.  It's a fun game :P
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 01:09:13 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 02:13:32 PM
But what about the patrons? Is it entertainment for lowlife scum or acceptable for middle class peeps?
In Quebec, it's both.
You do have guys who would spend their days and/or nights there, along with other more casual clients.
There are also high end places for "gentleman" and thrash stuff for low life prostitutes with no teeth who apparently give the best blowjobs  :ph34r:

Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 01:12:53 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:26:40 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 02, 2012, 01:50:31 PM
So, my (admitedly incomplete) perception through anecdotes and the media is that strip/gentlemen clubs are way more accepted and/or legit in the States than anywhere else.

Son, you need to come to Vancouver to see a real strip club.
I disagree.  Every hockey players knows it's either Montreal (island) or Quebec city.  It's actually the reason why the Canadiens are better at home than on the road, the other teams' players spend their night at the strip clubs when they visit :P
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 01:17:24 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:31:42 PM
edit: but what is the big deal with women patrons.  Those have always been allowed here.
are you sure about that?  Wasn't there a time - way before I was born-, that there were "taverns" forbidden to women?  There used to be a theater show about such a tavern from the old time, very popular in Quebec (Broue).  I figured that the very early strip clubs were for men only.  Come to think of it, I am unsure if there was a difference between a strip club and a brothel in the 50s/60s :unsure:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Barrister on May 04, 2012, 01:20:43 PM
Quote from: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 01:17:24 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 02, 2012, 02:31:42 PM
edit: but what is the big deal with women patrons.  Those have always been allowed here.
are you sure about that?  Wasn't there a time - way before I was born-, that there were "taverns" forbidden to women?  There used to be a theater show about such a tavern from the old time, very popular in Quebec (Broue).  I figured that the very early strip clubs were for men only.  Come to think of it, I am unsure if there was a difference between a strip club and a brothel in the 50s/60s :unsure:

Yeah, back in the day I don't think women were allowed into any kind of bar.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: viper37 on May 04, 2012, 01:21:45 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 02:35:05 PM
For whatever reason strip clubs are much more liberal in Canada than in the US (even though our alcohol rules are generally more strict).
Not for Quebec.  You can easily get alcohol while under 18 in Quebec.  You can easily sneak into any kind of clubs too without being asked for ID.  Well, it used to be that way. 
Anyway, in Ontario, no way I would enter without being 19.  And in the US, just forget about drinking while underage, even with your parents.  Never seen such an awkard attitude with alcohol. It's kinda prehistorical to be so crazy about it.
QuoteNo touching is about the only rule.
aren't 10$ dances (contact dance) allowed outside of Quebec?

Quote
You don't generally drop "oh I went to the peelers last night" in the middle of an office conversation. 
Yet, people will often go as part of post work activities.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Iormlund on May 04, 2012, 01:23:31 PM
I went once as part of a bachelor party.

In the end I had a lot of fun, but it was mostly from watching the reactions of my extremely drunk mates (not like I was in a better condition). I'm guessing that novelty effect would not last long, though, and while the girls were gorgeous the whole setting didn't exactly lead to arousal. So I don't see a reason for repeating the experience.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 04, 2012, 01:23:45 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 04, 2012, 12:37:23 PM
Now imagine Morgan freeman saying it.  It's a fun game :P

Yeah, Morgan Freeman is my official Life Voiceover(tm).

Sometimes, it's Alec Baldwin, but usually it's Morgan Freeman.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Syt on May 04, 2012, 01:24:28 PM
I prefer Ben Kingsley, myself.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 04, 2012, 01:24:48 PM
Quote from: Syt on May 04, 2012, 01:24:28 PM
I prefer Ben Kingsley, myself.


Oooh, good one.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:27:19 PM
When I drove up to Vancouver from Seattle in 1982 I was told that bars in BC had to have two seperate rooms, one for "unaccompanied women."
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Martim Silva on May 04, 2012, 01:35:28 PM
We have nice strip clubs in most decent-sized cities. Madrid also has them.

They're avaliable to all over 18 who can pay. The clients are usually middle-to-upper-class, sometimes women too. The girls are chosen to be very good-looking, from North America, South America and Eastern Europe.

They should be naked at all times (except before a strip session) and are expected to socialize with the patrons at the club.

You can of course request lap dances at any time, or choose one for more private contact in side booths if you feel like it (i.e. get their pussies applied directly to your face if you feel like it).

Virtually every straight non-very-poor guy goes there periodically. Usually with friends, so as to discuss all kinds of issues with each other while covered in nude girls.

I don't think it is that different in America... or is it? :huh:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 02:22:53 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:27:19 PM
When I drove up to Vancouver from Seattle in 1982 I was told that bars in BC had to have two seperate rooms, one for "unaccompanied women."

That was 1882 and Grumber, you should stop hacking Yi's account.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Razgovory on May 04, 2012, 02:26:18 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 01:27:19 PM
When I drove up to Vancouver from Seattle in 1982 I was told that bars in BC had to have two seperate rooms, one for "unaccompanied women."

How old are you?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: sbr on May 04, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Who gets a hard on at a strip club?

Also I had a friend whose wife danced at a higher class joint a couple times a week as a second job, she made decent money managing a retail store during the day.  She did it just because she got off on it and earned an extra grand or so a month.    She was hot but it was awkward to go watch her dance with her husband.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 02:34:22 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 04, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Who gets a hard on at a strip club?

Yeah, I dont understand the guys who think strip clubs are a kind of stand in for a (failed) date.  If you are going there for that reason then you are exactly the kind of guy CdM is talking about.

I also dont really get the, "I dont enjoy seeing naked women because its exploitation" bit.  Having known a few strippers (one who stripped her way through university) I can tell you that the strippers view the exploitation the other way around.   Again, CdM is wise in the ways of the world.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 02:42:35 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 04, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Who gets a hard on at a strip club?

Dude at the liquor store where I used to buy smokes told me he took cousins of his from the old country (he was a dothead) to a nudy bar and they all popped their wad in their pants.  :lol:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 02:54:17 PM
Had to look that one up.

QuoteDothead is slang for an Asian Indian woman.

:hmm:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Syt on May 04, 2012, 02:55:40 PM
Usually Yi is about as comprehensible as a jive talking negro to me, but that reference I got. :smarty:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 03:09:48 PM
Quote from: Syt on May 04, 2012, 02:55:40 PM
Usually Yi is about as comprehensible as a jive talking negro to me, but that reference I got. :smarty:

Have you ever read any Damn Runyon?  Wrote a lot of short stories, around Prohibition, mostly about gangsters.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Syt on May 04, 2012, 03:12:04 PM
Can't say that I have.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 03:14:05 PM
Take a look.  I recommend.

I mention him because I think he influenced my conversational style.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: PDH on May 04, 2012, 03:16:43 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 03:09:48 PM
Have you ever read any Damn Runyon?

Oooooooooo
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Syt on May 04, 2012, 03:23:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 03:14:05 PM
Take a look.  I recommend.

I mention him because I think he influenced my conversational style.

Thanks, I will!
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 03:33:49 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 04, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Who gets a hard on at a strip club?

Those paying for "lap dances" (or at least, so I would assume, never having done so myself).  :hmm:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 04, 2012, 04:27:59 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 02:54:17 PM
Had to look that one up.

QuoteDothead is slang for an Asian Indian woman.

:hmm:

That dot is actually a pilot light ignition.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 04, 2012, 07:13:10 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 03:33:49 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 04, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Who gets a hard on at a strip club?

Those paying for "lap dances" (or at least, so I would assume, never having done so myself).  :hmm:

Sigh once again your ignorance is showing.


You are out of your element Malthus
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: mongers on May 04, 2012, 07:26:51 PM

I'll hazard a guess that for quite a few of us Brits, public nudity or sex shows are no big deal, but the issue is the high degree of commercialisation; it's accepted in America that many more leisure activities will have corporate element interposing itself between the individual and the fun, where as for me and others, that's a real big positive turn off. 
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 07:56:35 PM
Nothing says free of commercial taint quite like attending a football match or drinking in a pub.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: mongers on May 04, 2012, 08:05:31 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 04, 2012, 07:56:35 PM
Nothing says free of commercial taint quite like attending a football match or drinking in a pub.

You have sex at those places.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 05, 2012, 04:02:17 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 04, 2012, 07:26:51 PM

I'll hazard a guess that for quite a few of us Brits, public nudity or sex shows are no big deal, but the issue is the high degree of commercialisation; it's accepted in America that many more leisure activities will have corporate element interposing itself between the individual and the fun, where as for me and others, that's a real big positive turn off. 

Corporate element? :hmm:

Not really sure what you are talking about there.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: grumbler on May 05, 2012, 04:50:01 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 05, 2012, 04:02:17 PM
Corporate element? :hmm:

Not really sure what you are talking about there.

It's Mongers.  Only start to worry when you read him and don't realize its gibberish.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Josquius on May 06, 2012, 06:15:54 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 04, 2012, 08:29:17 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 03, 2012, 11:36:21 PM
Its like going to a club and guarantied striking out.

Why do some guys here think they are going with the expectation of picking someone up?
Thats the whole point of clubs for guys.
Unless you're one of the strange few who like dancing.
(I originally had straight guys rather than just guys but who am I kidding. The gays love their dancing but that remains a secondary concern)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 10:48:34 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 06, 2012, 06:15:54 AM
Thats the whole point of clubs for guys.
Unless you're one of the strange few who like dancing.
(I originally had straight guys rather than just guys but who am I kidding. The gays love their dancing but that remains a secondary concern)

:frusty:

The point of the post was why do some people think they are going to strip clubs to pick someone up.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Josquius on May 06, 2012, 10:51:28 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 10:48:34 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 06, 2012, 06:15:54 AM
Thats the whole point of clubs for guys.
Unless you're one of the strange few who like dancing.
(I originally had straight guys rather than just guys but who am I kidding. The gays love their dancing but that remains a secondary concern)

:frusty:

The point of the post was why do some people think they are going to strip clubs to pick someone up.
Some people do? Who?
That's mad.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 11:01:23 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 06, 2012, 10:51:28 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 10:48:34 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 06, 2012, 06:15:54 AM
Thats the whole point of clubs for guys.
Unless you're one of the strange few who like dancing.
(I originally had straight guys rather than just guys but who am I kidding. The gays love their dancing but that remains a secondary concern)

:frusty:

The point of the post was why do some people think they are going to strip clubs to pick someone up.
Some people do? Who?
That's mad.

Well for one, it seemed like you did when you said:

QuoteIts like going to a club and guarantied striking out.

;)
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 11:31:44 AM
It's like going to the beach when it's guaranteed to rain.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 12:28:00 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 11:31:44 AM
It's like going to the beach when it's guaranteed to rain.

Beautiful women walk around in bikinis on the beach when it rains where you live?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Brain on May 06, 2012, 12:30:21 PM
I've heard about strip mining in the US? Myth?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 12:53:54 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 06, 2012, 12:30:21 PM
I've heard about strip mining in the US? Myth?

Fact.  We even have strip malls.  And no-pest strips.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: The Brain on May 06, 2012, 12:56:06 PM
Cool. But of course even in ancient times there were the topless towers of Ilium.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Ed Anger on May 06, 2012, 12:58:45 PM
We blow mountains apart.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Jacob on May 06, 2012, 01:24:02 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 12:53:54 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 06, 2012, 12:30:21 PM
I've heard about strip mining in the US? Myth?

Fact.  We even have strip malls.  And no-pest strips.

Do you think the US will ever bring back constription?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: sbr on May 06, 2012, 01:30:28 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 06, 2012, 01:24:02 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 12:53:54 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 06, 2012, 12:30:21 PM
I've heard about strip mining in the US? Myth?

Fact.  We even have strip malls.  And no-pest strips.

Do you think the US will ever bring back constription?

With our obesity problem?  I hope not. :x
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: grumbler on May 06, 2012, 02:07:53 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 06, 2012, 01:24:02 PM
Do you think the US will ever bring back constription?

The fact that the US had striplings doesn't mean it had constription.*  :contract:


* by the UN's definition, anyway.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 02:59:17 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 06, 2012, 12:30:21 PM
I've heard about strip mining in the US? Myth?

I think it has something to do with lingerie football.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 06, 2012, 03:09:21 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 05, 2012, 04:02:17 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 04, 2012, 07:26:51 PM

I'll hazard a guess that for quite a few of us Brits, public nudity or sex shows are no big deal, but the issue is the high degree of commercialisation; it's accepted in America that many more leisure activities will have corporate element interposing itself between the individual and the fun, where as for me and others, that's a real big positive turn off. 

Corporate element? :hmm:

Not really sure what you are talking about there.

It's Mongers, man.

"This presentation of Sinna Bunns in clear heels and face glitter has been brought to you by Kaiser Permanente.  Thrive."
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 06, 2012, 03:13:32 PM
Quote from: katmai on May 04, 2012, 07:13:10 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 04, 2012, 03:33:49 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 04, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Who gets a hard on at a strip club?

Those paying for "lap dances" (or at least, so I would assume, never having done so myself).  :hmm:

Sigh once again your ignorance is showing.


You are out of your element Malthus

So edumacate me.

Why, other than for sexual fun, do guys pay for "lap dances"?  Cultural appreciation, perhaps?  :hmm:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 06, 2012, 03:14:38 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 06, 2012, 03:13:32 PM
Why, other than for sexual fun, do guys pay for "lap dances"?  Cultural appreciation, perhaps?  :hmm:

lap dancers = not the wife

That's pretty much it.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 06, 2012, 04:30:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 11:31:44 AM
It's like going to the beach when it's guaranteed to rain.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: FunkMonk on May 06, 2012, 06:56:00 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 06, 2012, 04:30:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 11:31:44 AM
It's like going to the beach when it's guaranteed to rain.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
It's a free ride when you've already paid.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: katmai on May 06, 2012, 07:00:46 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 06, 2012, 03:13:32 PM

So edumacate me.

Why, other than for sexual fun, do guys pay for "lap dances"?  Cultural appreciation, perhaps?  :hmm:

When i've gone with friends it has been the custom of buying lap dances for them, not yourself and vice versa.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 07:28:28 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 06, 2012, 06:56:00 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 06, 2012, 04:30:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 11:31:44 AM
It's like going to the beach when it's guaranteed to rain.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
It's a free ride when you've already paid.
Good advice that you just didnt take.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 07:29:00 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 06, 2012, 03:13:32 PM
So edumacate me.

Why, other than for sexual fun, do guys pay for "lap dances"?  Cultural appreciation, perhaps?  :hmm:

With a stag party it's a way to toast the groom.  I think for most guys it's a way to negotiate more face time.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: grumbler on May 06, 2012, 07:31:22 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 07:28:28 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 06, 2012, 06:56:00 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 06, 2012, 04:30:59 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 06, 2012, 11:31:44 AM
It's like going to the beach when it's guaranteed to rain.
It's like rain on your wedding day.
It's a free ride when you've already paid.
Good advice that you just didnt take.
It's like a bearskin rug with the bear still in it.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Caliga on May 06, 2012, 07:33:24 PM
More like a traffic jam when you're already late.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Josquius on May 07, 2012, 07:15:46 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 06, 2012, 11:01:23 AM
Well for one, it seemed like you did when you said:

QuoteIts like going to a club and guarantied striking out.

;)
Nyet.
Go to a real club- you see hot girls and you hope to pull.
Go to a trip club- you see hot girls and you know there is no chance of anything more than paying large sums of money to be teased.
Assuming the place is reputable of course.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 07, 2012, 08:03:54 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 07, 2012, 07:15:46 AM
Nyet.
Go to a real club- you see hot girls and you hope to pull.
Go to a trip club- you see hot girls and you know there is no chance of anything more than paying large sums of money to be teased.
Assuming the place is reputable of course.

Some people like being teased.  And nobody goes to strip clubs when what they want is to take somebody home for sex.  So yeah not really sure what your point is.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 08:08:29 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:41:03 PM
Only two words matter in a strip club, or you're just wasting your time:  Out. Call.

Bumped for fucking truth.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 07, 2012, 08:21:04 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 08:08:29 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 02, 2012, 03:41:03 PM
Only two words matter in a strip club, or you're just wasting your time:  Out. Call.

Bumped for fucking truth.

Heh.  Well that to.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 08:40:59 AM
Quote from: katmai on May 06, 2012, 07:00:46 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 06, 2012, 03:13:32 PM

So edumacate me.

Why, other than for sexual fun, do guys pay for "lap dances"?  Cultural appreciation, perhaps?  :hmm:

When i've gone with friends it has been the custom of buying lap dances for them, not yourself and vice versa.

And no boners were ever had by any during this procedure?

Call me crazy, but if I had a hott chick grinding her crotch into mine, paid for by a friend or otherwise, I'd sora expect one.  :lol:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Jaron on May 07, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Pardon my naivete but what does Out. Call. mean?
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 08:43:25 AM
Quote from: Jaron on May 07, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Pardon my naivete but what does Out. Call. mean?

Outcall. Translation: "After you get off at work at the club, how about you come over to my hotel room for some extra cash?"

Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 07, 2012, 09:18:28 AM
Quote from: Jaron on May 07, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Pardon my naivete but what does Out. Call. mean?

:XD:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 07, 2012, 05:48:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 08:40:59 AM
And no boners were ever had by any during this procedure?

Call me crazy, but if I had a hott chick grinding her crotch into mine, paid for by a friend or otherwise, I'd sora expect one.  :lol:

Surprising as it may sound, the male and female body are not really designed to optimize crotch on crotch contact while the male is in the seated position.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 05:54:38 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 07, 2012, 05:48:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 08:40:59 AM
And no boners were ever had by any during this procedure?

Call me crazy, but if I had a hott chick grinding her crotch into mine, paid for by a friend or otherwise, I'd sora expect one.  :lol:

Surprising as it may sound, the male and female body are not really designed to optimize crotch on crotch contact while the male is in the seated position.

I've had sex in this position ...   ;)

But I take it that you guys are claiming that lap-dances do not, in fact, result in any sexual arousal for the person receiving them?

I find that "hard" to believe.  :D
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Valmy on May 07, 2012, 05:56:42 PM
Not me :perv:
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 07, 2012, 05:58:03 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 05:54:38 PM
I've had sex in this position ...   ;)

But I take it that you guys are claiming that lap-dances do not, in fact, result in any sexual arousal for the person receiving them?

I find that "hard" to believe.  :D

Not zero.  This Eye-talian American chick humped my leg in Atlantic City and I got some serious wood.

But generally the lap dance is not a very effective means of sexual release.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 06:12:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 07, 2012, 05:58:03 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 07, 2012, 05:54:38 PM
I've had sex in this position ...   ;)

But I take it that you guys are claiming that lap-dances do not, in fact, result in any sexual arousal for the person receiving them?

I find that "hard" to believe.  :D

Not zero.  This Eye-talian American chick humped my leg in Atlantic City and I got some serious wood.

But generally the lap dance is not a very effective means of sexual release.

Well yeah, I'm not claiming that guys regularly shoot their wad while being "danced".  :D I was just taking issue with being called out for claiming guys who get lap dances are likely looking to get turned on.

Other than some sort of male bonding social ritual, what other point could paying a woman to dry-hump you have? 
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 07, 2012, 06:18:36 PM
I already answered that question.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 07, 2012, 09:18:28 AM
Quote from: Jaron on May 07, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Pardon my naivete but what does Out. Call. mean?

:XD:

You'll love this.
Was out in Phoenix last year, and we hit a really, really cool strip club.  I approached the youngish manager about an hour before closing, and asked him if any of the girls do any outcall on the side.
"Gee, I don't know.  Gosh, I hope not.  This is my first night."
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: 11B4V on May 07, 2012, 09:39:52 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 07, 2012, 09:18:28 AM
Quote from: Jaron on May 07, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Pardon my naivete but what does Out. Call. mean?

:XD:

You'll love this.
Was out in Phoenix last year, and we hit a really, really cool strip club.  I approached the youngish manager about an hour before closing, and asked him if any of the girls do any outcall on the side.
"Gee, I don't know.  Gosh, I hope not.  This is my first night."

:lol: Sounds like he wasnt with the in crowd. I would bet they were.
Title: Re: Acceptance of stripping in the USA
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 09:41:04 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 07, 2012, 09:39:52 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 07, 2012, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 07, 2012, 09:18:28 AM
Quote from: Jaron on May 07, 2012, 08:42:13 AM
Pardon my naivete but what does Out. Call. mean?

:XD:

You'll love this.
Was out in Phoenix last year, and we hit a really, really cool strip club.  I approached the youngish manager about an hour before closing, and asked him if any of the girls do any outcall on the side.
"Gee, I don't know.  Gosh, I hope not.  This is my first night."

:lol: Sounds like he wasnt with the in crowd. I would bet they were.

Yeah, but I wasn't too sure about those vibes, and didn't feel like coming across the wrong lesbian with a right fist.