I've been made to go into strip clubs several times.
They are ghastly. Much as Indian businessmen in suits gawping at bored-looking orange Poles give me the MASSIVE HORN, for some reason such places simply embarrass me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:16, 4 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You don't want a strippergram for your bash then?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:19, Reply)

No thank you.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:23, Reply)

Damn
*repacks velcro trousers*
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:24, Reply)

Hahahhahaha
I'm trying not to imagine you ripping off a novelty t shirt now. I feel sick.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:33, Reply)

I've been to a couple in my time, mostly on stag parties.
Eastern European clubs often have really gorgeous girls in them, but I can't get rid of the knowledge that they're only doing it because it pays well and most likely despise the drunk British louts in the club. This was backed up the last time I went on one of these weekends after I got talking to a dancer who was wondering why I was sitting in a corner nursing a drink and trying not to look at anyone. She was erudite, charming and university educated. She was dancing to earn money to buy a house near her parents so she could look after them in their dotage.

British clubs are full of skanky crack-whores.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:22, Reply)

surely nobody who goes
thinks that the girls are doing it for anything other than cash, though?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:23, Reply)

You'd think so, wouldn't you.

( Kroney, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:24, Reply)

I'm fairly certain that the majority of the 'punters'
are unaware in their drunken stupidity that these women pity and despise them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:24, Reply)

jesus
that is depressing
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:26, Reply)

They are melancholy places.
The 'victims of the sex industry' in such clubs are most definitely the customers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:32, Reply)

Except the punters who get off on being pitied and despised
or "cash machines" as they're known to the ladies.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:46, Reply)

A friend of mine has been going out with the stripper he pulled at my stag do for a year now
She is lovely, intellegent and kind. She stripped because she was confident about herself and could make thousands of pounds a week.

She was no victim
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:38, Reply)

See above - the victims are the drunken dickheads paying loads of money and getting no sex for it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:43, Reply)

true, but if they want to waste their money then i ay let them, it's no more of a waste than gambling, drinking or drugs

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:52, Reply)

True enough.
I'm not suggesting they close them down - I just don't want to go in them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)

Never been too a proper strip club, but extensive experience of strippers in pubs.
In places like Redcar and Hartlepool.
Poor girls, they must be doing it to either feed a kid or a habit.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:28, Reply)

Mmmm, nice.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:30, Reply)

No, not really.
I believe that skanky erotic artists are available in the South too.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:33, Reply)

They definitely are.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:42, Reply)

They make me feel ill, strip clubs.
Proper ill. And even if I was looking at them from my non biased point of view, I genuinely don't understand them. You pay money for a wench to dance around you and you leave more sexually frustrated than when you went in.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:43, Reply)

You can get that treatment in most normal clubs, too.

( Kroney, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:44, Reply)

That's even more grim.
Half the enjoyment of having sex with someone is that they actually want to have sex with you as well. Unless you're PsychoChomp.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:46, Reply)

To be fair Barry
you're obsessed with clothes and drink in The Eagle. Are you sure you've not just been going to the wrong sort of strip club? Something more Chippendales might be a better fit.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:48, Reply)

Also there's a hint of the 'watching porn with your mates' about it
which again I cannot understand one bit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:49, Reply)

A guy at school watched porn with his dad...
then he stabbed someone and got expelled
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)

I was only excluded ACTUALLY SO GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT OK?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 12:11, Reply)

Ugh, and the excruciating part where they start walking around asking you if you'd like a private dance
with this act on that it'd be a huge turn-on for them.

It makes my skin crawl.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:54, Reply)

It's awful.
And you see those 20-year-old stockbroking trainees with their eyes popping out, absolutely LOVING IT. Pathetic.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)

The place where I got chatting to one of the girls
was fucking rammed full of rugger buggers. Every single one of them convinced that the girls were gagging for it and took it as a personal slight when they couldn't pull one.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 12:14, Reply)

I love this side thread
as it validates something I have been ridiculed for in the past, That strip clubs are shite and in no way entertaining. Paying to become frustrated seems futile.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 11:59, Reply)

See here for further validation
b3ta.com/questions/wasteofmoney/post897885 - FOAF story, I know, but said friend is a reasonably sound source
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 13:32, Reply)