# My first trip to a strip club **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897 "2003-10-06T18:08:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897/41 "2003-10-07T22:08:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I just found it sort of sad. I guess because of what was already said about the women pretending they are interested in people just to get money. I felt like the men were stupid and the women were being used. This is exactly the reaction I have had every time I was in a strip club. (I had a customer who lived for the damn things, so I was in more than a few) ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897/42 "2003-10-07T22:39:55Z")
A girl I went to high school with and who I’ve known since I was a child became a dancer for several years. She worked at Good Guys, a chain on the east coast. I had it on good authority that on a weekend night she pulled in $1500. I never saw her dance (and never would have gone, too creepy). She would have been very good though. She was a tall true redhead, nineteen years old with professional ballet experience. The gulf between the top tier of strip clubs and the lower end is vast though. I would make a WAG that your neighborhood stripper doesn’t make too much more than a really good waitress. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897/43 "2003-10-07T23:55:26Z")
The trick is to stay away from sniffer’s alley… take the mini-stage in the center of the club set back from the main stage. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897/44 "2003-10-08T14:02:18Z")
George, not in my case. I worked (at my favortie place) 3-9 p.m. It was a straight $6 an hour. You had to make 10 drinks. Any drinks over that was 2 each drink added for me. Lap dances? They would tip you whatever they wanted. No pay out to the bar, guess it wasn't very "high-class". I usually made about 150 a week for about 15 hours a week. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897/45 "2003-10-08T14:37:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wyatt \* > \*\*HERE I am!!! A little less gorgeous but even nicer than you remember! Come on over! > _grin wink_ \*\* funny. And your name is Dan I suppose? ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897/46 "2003-10-08T16:20:40Z")
You can count me on the not interested side. I can appreciate why some guys go there, but its not for me. I can’t stand the thought of some chick pretending to like me for money…I should get that for free, right? That said, I did enjoy one trip to an expensive club on Deleware Ave in Philadelphia. The feature stripper had been a playboy calendar girl a couple years before, very hot and not too pushy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-trip-to-a-strip-club/205897.md?page=2)