Why strippers? I don’t get it. Yeah, novelty factor OK. Bachelor party fine. But to stay in the black they must need some repeat customers.
It’s just a tease, isn’t it? I mean, sure it gets you hard. But if you can’t jerk off what’s the point? Getting turned on without a method of release is just torture.
It’s cheaper than prostitutes, but with zero fulfillment.
What is the draw???
I hold out hope there is a legitimate and scientific answer. But I suspect it will quickly devolve into IMHO. That’s OK. Give it ten or so chances before moving it, mods.
I’m not really a patron, but look, haven’t you ever had a date or something where you got turned on well before you had an opportunity to get off? (If not, I’m very sorry!) A “tease” and a delay can make it that much hotter when you get down to business.
Alot of lonely but wealthy (ier) older men are exactly who make up the vast majority of these “regulars” that most strippers depend on for regular income. They will pay these girls hundreds of dollars just to sit with them for the entire evening. They may drink, get lap dances, talk or whatever but she is his for the night. It can be very lucrative for the girls. Plus, they don’t have to do any real work. The men are delighted to spend money on a tight, young girl to have this girl shower him with sexual attention. It’s just a fantasy world. In their real lives, they often have ZERO contact/intimacy with women at all.
*edited to add: it’s usually the hottest of the hot that land these moneywhales
For me, living in a small rural town and single, going to the strip club is a big city titillation usually reserved for business trips when I’m alone, in a hotel and bored in a city where I don’t know anybody and have nothing to do.
I went to a strip joint while in my 20’s. While sitting there watching jiggling breasts, I realized that this affected my desire but filled absolutely no need.
And why are they still called “strippers?” As if it’s 1937 and onstage is a woman working her way down to pasties and a g-string. Isn’t it pretty much a WYSIWYG event nowadays? Butt floss and high heels from start to finish?
Why do we like to look at art or flowers? I personally have no interest in going to a strip show, but I don’t see why I wouldn’t be able to appreciate it as something pleasant.
I suspect that – ignoring the case of older men looking for any attention they can get – the main audience is men who want some man-time with their pals. You could consider it to be the male equivalent of going to a salon with all of your girl friends (if you were a woman). It’s a safe zone with no (real) members of the opposite sex, and you can yuck it up all you want. The stripper, at a strip joint, just adds atmosphere.
I’m sure you’ve noticed one of our board members is a stripper*. Hopefully she will join the thread, because I’m really curious about the demographics of her customers. Are they mostly lonely middle-aged guys? Or usually college students out for a good time with their buds?
*Her term for it. I figure it’s OK to skip the fancier “exotic dancer” title.
Do you ever turn your head to check out a pretty girl in a revealing outfit who passes you on the street? My impression is that the vast majority of straight men do this from time to time. I do it too, and I admit I enjoy doing it. Even though there is no chance I will have sexual relations with that girl. And it’s more than just appreciating her in an aesthetic sense. I enjoy looking at a spiffy car; a nice building; a strong race horse; etc. But it’s a lot more fun to look at a pretty girl in a short skirt.
Seems to me it’s the same principle at work with strippers – it’s enjoyable, in a sexual sense, simply to watch them.
Do you have any idea how much they charge for a beer in a strip joint? And the girls will often need to have a drink bought for them while they mingle between their sets. They get very expensive fruit juice or soda.
Strippers exist to seperate young men from their money for the bar owners.
I think its about the fantasy. 12 yrs ago when my wife and I split up, the neighborhood I lived in turned out to be heavily populated with strippers and my place quickly became a hangout as I was spending a lot of time at the local titty bars. What guy doesn’t get an ego boost from having a lot of semi naked and totally topless young ladies running around his place, especially when the guys from work drop in unannounced and he gets the “hot damn you lucky dog” look even if he’s not touching(the best was when the bttln CO, XO and CSM dropped in for a health and welfare one saturday a.m. because I was the newly separated/divorced guy)
Its also about the esthetics, I find the female form much more appealing than the male form and like to look at women in various stages of undress and fully clothed as well.
Quite simply, men like looking at naked women. Men like getting sexually-charged attention from women. And, at least for some men, at some points in their lives, the strip club may be the only (or easiest, or safest) way of obtaining these things.
Why strippers? Really you have to ask this? When even the smallest and seediest towns have them?
No STDs, a lot cheaper than hookers, and they leave when the song is done.
The last part is the most important to their success. Much like a hooker, you don’t pay them for the sexual thrill. You pay them to leave when it’s over.
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I just wanted to comment on the absurdity of jamiemcgarry’s statement “Plus, they don’t have to do any real work.”
First, go walk around in dressy heels for eight hours. Not businesswoman’s shoes, but tall-assed things with sharp spikes. Sit down for a little bit here and there, but for the most part keep moving.
No, wait, there’s more. Every fifteen to twenty minutes, don’t just walk around; dance. How do you feel? No, wait, not done yet. Between stage dances, walk around and work on selling yourself. Selling and ingratiating yourself harder than any used car salesman could dream of. Easy-seeming or not, you’re not the only one with tits in the place so you can’t just rely on your dental work.
Oops, not done yet. After you make a ‘sale’, between your stage dances, now you get to shake your ass for a lap dance. Keep going, you only have to make it through eight hours of this.
…and smiling the whole time.
Not work? There may be enjoyable times, it may be fun for a night or a few, but not work?
I find strip clubs to be very sketchy at best, which is why they don’t really attract me. They are usually located in the seedy parts of the city, which is somewhere I would rather not be located. The girls are not even that attractive. Plus, I hate the stripper smell and strip clubs are far from clean.