Las Vegas Weekly

With all due respect, nice!
Welcome to the world of "compelled automatons" @ the highest levels.
Y-knot allow some Young Guns 2 participate in other variations of 'good game,' like football/poker/t-breds, on-line, handled, in-country???
$$$$$ non-participatory revenue >< = gone >>...
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
hardly simple childrens games

Posted by: cypher on 10/8/09 at 4:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I have lived in Vegas for 25 years, and dudes don't know how good it used to be before the lap dances and VIP rooms. The Crazy Horse Two, before greed set in, was happening because nice looking ladies with friendly demeanors could make a living doing this for a buck at a time. Wow, just think, dancers who could actually dance and who would actually engage in a conversation other then "you want a dance". I say good riddance to the lap dance. Woman with some decent looks and friendly personality will survive and just maybe men will start behaving accordingly, again.

Posted by: RHG on 10/8/09 at 8:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I should move to Las Vegas...it must be great to live in a town with so little crime that the cops have nothing better to do than harass honest working girls. And as one who years ago stopped falling in love with cheerleaders and determined that strippers were higher evolved forms of life, I must say: I continually fall in love with strippers. But they must all be sweet and innocent with a heart of gold beneath their scanty garb.

Posted by: rrbill on 10/8/09 at 8:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Id be curious to see where this clean club is...
Trasures,sapphire,spearmin rhino:in al of these clubs u see ass grabbing,and tits grabbing in vip room,most girs will allow it at least one time to make her sale...

Girls knnow the bouncers and have many tricks to fool security and let the customers touch when no on or so is watching...Bloody recession!

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 10/8/09 at 11:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yes, Yes, Yes!!! Sing it Sistah!!!

Bless you, sweetie, for taking the words right out of my mouth (and off my blog where I write about this constantly). Never stop fighting this fight. Erotic and emotional labor are valuable and beautiful but what's happened to this industry over the past 10-20 years is aplorable. I've stripped in the 80s, 90s, and 00s (5 years at the Crazy Horse Too) and miss the ways of the old days. So much.

Make owners & mgt liable, it IS the only way.

www.MyDancerDiary.com

Posted by: CaseyDancer on 10/10/09 at 5 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Justice, sweet Justice. I continue to contend that it's not in your cards to be a stripper. And I'm not talking about your looks as I'm sure you're attractive enough. I'm talking about your moral fiber. Your outlook on what's right and wrong. In the stripping business, "nice" girls finish last, well maybe not last, but definitely not as financially secure as the other girls. And you, my dear, are a nice girl.

Put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig. How "clean" can you make a strip club? In the end, after you set up all your security, your no-touch rules, your 4-foot distance rules, your absence of VIP and Lap Dance rooms, etc - what have you got left? A night club? A watering hole with scenery? A sports club with half-naked women walking around asking for money for what? Looking pretty? Whatever it is, it certainly won't be a "strip" club anymore.

It's like trying to clean mud. Just can't be done. Either a strip club is a strip club, or it's not. It's like being half pregnant. Just can't do it - the old having your cake and eating it too problem. It's awfully nice having guys handing you twenties and fifties all night but that ain't gonna happen if all you give in response is sweet conversation and a hint of cleavage.

Take it from someone who enjoys strip clubs A LOT. (And probably not for the reasons you think) When a lady gives me a "good" lap dance, I pay her for the dance, AND I tip her handsomely. I know she has better things to do on a Friday night than bump and grind on strangers. So I make sure she knows I appreciate her work and yes, her looks.

But to the gals that want to sit and chat, let me buy them $10 drinks, and then be paid for their "time" - nope, don't think so. I can do that in any night club or sports bar.

Which is what makes strip clubs UNIQUE. They ARE different than other clubs. Cleaning them up so they emulate other clubs will just dilute their mystique and attraction. Yes, they offer women like you the allure of big bucks, but to attain that reward, sometimes you've got to sleep with the devil.

Have a great weekend!

Posted by: Awol737 on 10/10/09 at 5:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Awol737,

You're saying that we may as well throw all the rules out the window? If we allow nudity, than we should also allow sexual abuse and maybe full blown prostitution? There are a lot of situations that can occur on that continuum that aren't completely innocent or completely sex.
You don't believe there can be pleasurable lap dances where the patrons are well behaved? I never said that I expect to make my money by just showing up. I expect to be in some physical pain at the end of a shift from all the lap dances. Is it wrong that I just don't want to be fingered and groped while I do those dances?

Posted by: Justice_4_all on 10/11/09 at 2:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)

aye Justice!
awesome blog. want to do one myself sometime. Great to read a dancers perspective, sounds pretty much like here. im 22 yo student and MC/dancer manager at one of Australias top strip clubs.

I'm pretty sure theres not one girl who doesnt bend the rules from time to time. It's def too hard to keep track of 30 girls at once, expecially the wiley ones who know every trick it in the book to get a show. While the main reason to have a clean club is to keep the girls safe, if the cops see anygirls breaking any rules when they are around; girl gets sacked, club gets fined. i probably get sacked. nuff said. however the 'everdancer for herself' mentality that lots of girls have means its very hard to keep track all the time
peace.

Posted by: toke_artist on 10/11/09 at 7:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I totally agree with you Justice, strip clubs do need to be cleaned up! The only problem is, it isn't going to happen. I stopped dancing 2 years ago and the changes in the clubs are enormous! It's that "the few ruin it for the many" rule. Since I am now in a successful non-adult oriented career that pays more than dancing, I sleep at night. Not that I disagree with dancing, it is fun and I accept that some girls want to do it, but it is not a LIFESTYLE. Make sure you have a back up plan for when you get tired of it, or it gets tired of you............

Posted by: strippersoldier on 10/11/09 at 6:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

In the end its all about personal choices and education.
I have no respect for pigs rich or poor and no respect for girls ready to sleep for money.
Narrow minded or not at the end of the day its a choice and if it comes down to that point for certain girls doing naughty stuff for money then well so be it i guess.
Stripping should stay an art, a tease or a fantasy however i do not appreciate girls who are not honest straight away with a customer asking her out and dont tell him no i dont do that a firm no and that is why i appreciate jsutice's blog ebcause she makes clear many tiems in her posts she is telling this man or that man what is and wont play with him or feelign if he has any of course.
On another topic The fact is, as much as it sounds stereotyped lots of dancers are in there and hate their jobs: from nickelback music to smelly customers who would like it ?
For a lot its a forced choice id say because once ur used to quick money its hard going back. I said quick not easy money...
Lots of dancers are terrible with money too and complain about not having any but though im goign far off topic here i think ts normal that dancers,cocktail waitresses,valet parking guy have seen their income go a bit down during these rough times...
Dont get me wrong i am no hating or anything but i think this was not a healthy message sent from these professions to a lot of kids:
Come strip u will make lots and get whatever u want , but what if i am not pretty? what if i have boundaries certain other girls have not, will i be that succesful ?
Again it is a choice,and maybe i am wrong but its about fair to me that someone who studie 10 years at school makes more than any of the above professions but of course i have not said that bc ur a dancer u can not go to school nor be educated as justice's example is proving it is possible :)

Posted by: natkingcolebasket on 10/12/09 at 2:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I have been following your blogs for quite some time now. All you have to write just intrigues me

I want to become a stripper, but without all the prostitution. & reading your blog has mad me realize it's possible. I have questions though! I've never been on a pole, do I need classes first? How did you start off. I'm just starving for answers. If you ever have the time contact me cheerdiva907@hotmail.com Thank(:

Posted by: MissElle on 10/13/09 at 2:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)