My favorite strip joint in Portland is the Acropolis or the A-Krop is it is colloquially known. I think it’s owned by a Greek dude. They’ve got a steak and baked potato special with all you can eat salad bar for $5 or something like that. It’s the best salad bar I’ve ever had. The girls on the day shift aren’t perfect 10’s, but the friendly ambiance cannot be beat.
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Sleeping with strippers is like playing with big time fireworks. They’re fun and they’re pretty when you go see them, but if you take them home and try it yourself you’ll end up missing a finger and having your house burnt down.
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I think this is especially (or perhaps even only) true if you’re a patron. I’ve known a few perfectly sane and reasonable women who are strippers, with perfectly functional relationships, but never with a patron*. That just sets up a weird dynamic from the start.
*I’m prepared to believe it’s happened somewhere, sometime, but I’ve never seen it.
I have nothing to add on the strip joint, but I’m sorry about your wife and I hope for you better things in the future. 
Didn’t Indygrrl once say dating a stripper was a really bad idea if you were a patron?
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Didn’t Indygrrl once say dating a stripper was a really bad idea if you were a patron?
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And since most guys have been to a strip club at one time or another… 
Never mind. I looked through the whole “Ask the Stripper” thread and she just said she met her dates the normal way, and that very few girls actually dated customers.
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I have two brothers who have been through two divorces each, and both tell me there’s no such thing as a “friendly” divorce.
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Shenanigans. It can and does happen. I have an example but I won’t bore you with it. 
[QUOTE=Zebra]
Well if she started the store while she was married to you, it is a joint thing. Especially if your high paying job made it possible for her to do it.
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Yes, I know. We’re splitting things up to reflect the financial reality. It’s more the emotional reality of “ownership”.
Once I get a date with a stripper all is forgiven. An update: my favorite stripper just told me how much she likes making out with one of the other girls. I’ll ask them out together and see if that helps.
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Vegan? What? Does this mean that typical strip clubs serve food or have animal sacrifices? Neither of which I associate with strip clubs. Either way, I’m getting old.
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In Oregon we have the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission) which regulates bars and all booze sales. One of the regulations is that if a bar serves alcohol, it also has to serve food as well. Hence the vegan strip club, as well as the Acropolis mentioned upthread. BTW, the owner of the A-Crop has a beef ranch and serves his own beef in his club. Steaks run about three bucks with a baked tater (well, that’s how much it was the last time I was there but I doubt it’s much more now) and they have over a hundred beers on tap. Cute strippers, too.
I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but Portland is full of strippers who are sane, sensible and fun. I used to work with a bunch of chicks who stripped part time for extra cash and a more down to earth bunch you’ll never meet. Then again, strippers aren’t looked down on here too much–Portland has a good relationship with its sex workers. Most of the girls have natural tits and some even sport pubic hair!
My opinion is that the best strip clubs are on the east side of the West Hills–if you get out toward Beaverton (snerk) and Hillsboro or (Og forbid!) Tualatin, the strip clubs start looking more like California with the teased blonde hair and implants. On the east side there’s the Acrop, Devil’s Point, DV8, Mary’s and a whole slew of other places including the Double Dribble (best name EVAR!) which is a combo sports bar/titty club. Gotta love this town!
Interesting Google ads for this thread! Thanks to them, I can find out where to book an exotic dancer for a party or wedding (?!), buy peep show booths for my adult bookstore, and learn strategies to stop divorce or lover’s rejection.
ETA: And now, find a Christian wife and learn the secrets about Passion Parties.
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FWIW, all of the full nude strip clubs here are, by law, non-smoking. The ones that serve alcohol can allow smoking. Don’t know about vegan, or hipsters, but lesbian patrons are not uncommon. Interesting is in the ear of the beholder, I suspect.
Shibb in Tampa
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Mmmm, Tampa. Mons Venus was quite the tourist attraction (the “hands on” lap dances are fun). All 3 times I went there!
So… in a vegan strip club, does it mean the dancers cannot use (real) leather accessories? 
(betcha this throws the google-ads off…)
Portland sounds more and more like a place where one may want to spend some time…
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So… in a vegan strip club, does it mean the dancers cannot use (real) leather accessories?.
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Yes, in this one. The owner forbids any animal products on stage. He is a big, hulking, biker-looking guy but very friendly. Not at all my pre-conception of a vegan.
More on stripper-saga. One of my favorites was dancing last night when a colelction of twenty-something men and women came in. The stripper gave them all big hugs. One of them was a striking, but nerdy looking women with black rim glasses: just my type. I covertly bought her a couch dance with the stripper. I was watching from across the room and could see she was nervous. She asked a girl-friend of hers to come with, and the disappeared in to the VIP room.
The stripper later told me that they LOVED it and all had a great time. Much more fun than buying someone a drink.