Maybe it’s just me, with my lack of experience, but $5 is a bit much to tip a girl doing the main stage dance, as it were. Personal lap dances are a separate issue; I guess I was referring mostly to the “Everyone gather at the main stage and give a big welcome to…Sparkle!” kind of dance. I know these women are, uh, dancing to pay for school, or baby formula (which only makes it hotter, according to Bloodhound Gang)…but I suppose if you factor in exchange rates, varying “quality” and “ability” of dancers, a five-spot might be warranted.
I’ve been to 2 different clubs here in Edmonton, and at both people tossed all sorts of coinage on stage. At a few points in the show (after the strip) the girls would pose with legs spread and a small pail just between the legs, anyone who scored a one or two dollar coin would get a small poster of the girl passed back to him. Afterwards the girl would walk around the stage a magnet on the end of a chain picking up all the change. There was no way to ever get close enough to put bills in the girls g-string, and they usually ended the show wearing absolutely nothing so it’d be pointless to try…
When I was a dancer almost 20 years ago, the club I worked at had a system where guys with credit cards could buy dances… I’ve seen this in Texas where the guys were given paper “money” but at the club I worked at in Arizona they made the bizarre decision that your credit card bought you tokens. They were gold colored and worth $5 each. It was very strange and while I liked getting the money, it was always a bit of a pain when guys wanted to use them. We’d generally just take the tip in-hand and then put it in our shoe until we could go to the bar and exchange it for money.*
*at face value. The club may have charged the guys more than face value for them, I’m not sure. The place in Texas that I mentioned only gave the girls 80 cents on the dollar for the fake money, so we really hated getting them–it wasn’t just stage tips; the guys would use them like regular cash when buying table dances and stuff, so instead of your $20 that you’d get from a cash guy, you’d only get $16 from a guy using a credit card.
Been to a couple strip clubs in the Toronto and Niagara Falls area. You tip fives but it’s more… special. Lie down on the stage with the tightly folded fiver in your teeth. No hands!
Well I’ve never actually seen it, apparently it’s not uncommon around these parts for the lady in question to spread a towel or sheet out on the stage at the end of her performance and then sit with her legs spread.
The audience then tries to pelt her lady-bits with loonies and toonies. Afterwards she gathers up the corners of the towel/sheet and heads off stage to ice down her crotch. I’m sure there’s a more degrading way to make a living, but I’m not sure what it is.
There are a few strip pubs in London where the main dancers go round with a pint glass before their routine starts. Everyone watching is expected to put a pound coin in and then the dance begins. Private dances are also available at £10-20 a go.
Yah - it takes all kinds I suppose, but I have more than one male friend who was quite disgusted by some of the fellas - like they try to throw the coins as hard as they can to actually hurt the woman (and I imagine a toonie right in the labia would hurt quite a bit).
I do wonder if guys hate women that much, why would they spend all that money at the club.
Eh - I may be naive but I actually think that most men go to a strip club because they want to see pretty ladies with no clothing on - nothing more insidious than that.
However, I haven’t actually spent much time - well, any time in strip clubs so I could totally be talking out of my ass here.
I’m impressed with the ingenuity involved in paying women to shake it nekkid, lol.
(England has two pound coins as well, larger in size than a one pound, but thinner, so not as heavy.) I quite like the “walk around with a pint glass”…that’s what I was hypothesizing to myself before I asked the rest of the class. I’m not sure I could be pelted with coinage, but I still say it beats dragging a “coin purse” backstage.
