What the hell do people even do in strip clubs

Sexy women are nice to you.

You've made a point I have never before considered so props to you
For money
- the fuck is this borderline incel shit getting upvotes
- It's so effective that a recent pew research discovered 68% of men under 30 are single and not interested in dating. We have finally figured out how to make men celibate, just get sexy girls to be nice to them.
  sorry are you saying that onlyfans is responsible for the state of American dating? That's not true at all. Nobody's dating because dating sucks now that we've eradicated all the third spaces and replaced them with app-based meat markets. They're not abstaining in order to indulge in more thoroughly-commoditized horrors, that's the thing that's driving them away from dating in the first place.
- I hear what you’re saying, but have you considered most men have a disgusting personality and that’s why women are not nice to them?

Hey guys wanna go spend all our money and get boners together?

Jokes on you me and the rest of the goon squad do that for free
hey everyone, this nerds afraid of boners!
This reads homophobic imo
- Lol what
- Most guys who attend strip clubs are the ones who sit six feet apart from each other in any other scenario because they don’t want anyone thinking they’re gay. Same with guys who watch hours of porn, comparing dick sizes, etc. Feels like OP was just mocking these type of guys.
- I read it while homophobic personally

me and the boys

gettin horny with the fellas
- Only Petah's goonin' there...

It's a place where awful and socially maladjusted people go because they can't get women that attractive to be pleasant to them in any other situation.

Maid cafes in Japan fulfill the same purpose but without alcohol. Some offer after-hours "specials" that include erotic performance. An evolution of historic Geisha service.

Hooters fulfills the same purpose again.

It's the same motivation in every version, there's just a different presentation in style and act. They want feminine attention and they are willing to part with money to get it, typically they have fucked up views of women because of the lack of feminine attention or because of the fact they're awful human beings. Power, patriarchy, misogyny, all wrapped up into one.

/thread !!

i think if you view it wholly as eroticism & trying to bust it seems disappointing, but it's really just a bar where you get to see live performance. so all the appeals of a bar PLUS watching contortionists & dancers do their thing.

watching contortionists & dancers do their thing
if that were the appeal, they wouldn't be almost entirely female - there is also a significant amount of misogyny and objectification going on
- i'm just explaining a point of view that will be less alien to the audience here, the whole reason strip clubs exist is patriarchal morality policing, there's a ton to unpack about it but an important first thing to understand is that it's art & performance. and i'm not the best equipped to actually do that unpacking, i've only read history from before strip clubs were an explicit category
- I love that in techno/funk parties in Brazil is pretty common to have performance, they are usually dancers of "vougueing", but they're also drag queens of just people with the most crazy costumes. There's a DJ I really like, DJ K, who always bring his dancers that are just two guys with evil clown mask dancing funk in a style that is creepy, so it mix well with his style of funk.

It's the place you go to so when you disrespect the old mobster that runs the place he murders you in the men's room and disposes of your body in a quarry.

Oohhhh that makes sense. That's an important place to have in society tbf, it's just not the same in a casino or a speakeasy
The Turkish consulate?

The boys: at a strip club to look at the bazoinkas and paying to pitch a tent

Me: At the strip club for the cheap wings and beer, and helping the girls unionize.

Add hard drugs to the mix and this sounds like a Wednesday night for Hunter Biden.
- The coolest Biden by far.

None of you people have actually been to strip clubs and it shows.

A private dance is a lot more intimate than the name implies. If you tip nicely, you can basically get dry-humped to completion if you're into that. Or you use the opportunity to talk business since some strippers also moon light as sex-workers.

Of course I don't frequent these establishments because I'm not a creep but I do understand how they work. It's like going into a mob front restaurant and asking how they stay in business if the spaghetti tastes horrible. That's not what they're selling dear hexbear.

Or you use the opportunity to talk business since some strippers also moon light as sex-workers.
Yep. It's a safe(r) space to negotiate offsite sex work. The club aggressively filters out the the most obvious perverts who get handsy at the mere sight of a boobie. Not to say you can't make good money just dancing, of course—there's plenty of white boy incels who are too scared to break the law, and throw away a fortune trying to make a dancer their girlfriend because she was nice to them. But the girls who made bank were always doing side work.
It's like going into a mob front restaurant and asking how they stay in business if the spaghetti tastes horrible.
That's why you get the lasagna, or go to the mob front pizza places. They load up that pie with absurd amounts of cheese because they have no concept of what is and isn't profitable. A pound of cheese can make any mid recipe quite palatable!
None of you people have actually been to strip clubs and it shows.
Yes??? That why we're asking
dry-humped to completion
I don't think cumming in your pants is generally what guys are hoping to get from a lap dance? like I'm sure it happens but I don't think it's the desired outcome for anyone involved lmao
- Look, no one wants to go to a strip club.
  Going to the strip club to dry hump is the sex-worker equivalent of buying shitty ditch weed from a white guy because you're too scared to leave suburbia. It's a shitty, low-risk, compromise from people who don't want to get into trouble.
I do understand how they work.
That just brings up a lot of questions on how you do know... you got a friend who works at one or smthm lmao?
- I'm a fed who uses their connections with the underworld to launder money for the CIA.
- Not op but I actually used be roommates with someone who stripped and talked with her friends from work sometimes so i actually do know (a little) about how they work. It's mostly boring. If there was sex work i didn't know about it, but then i wasnt looking so who knows?
It's like going into a mob front restaurant and asking how they stay in business if the spaghetti tastes horrible.
Every restaurant that is obviously front has the best and cheapest food in my experience. I assume they just have a cousin who doesn't want to get involved with the dirty stuff but has a passion for cooking so they stick them in the kitchen and say "do whatever you want"

im not saying this to be demeaning towards anyone who works in a strip joint, nor am i commenting on the reasons one would work there.

That said, some places are topless only. Some places are full nude. Some places, like outside of city limits where places like these are regulated, the sky is the limit. Some places are full alcohol service. Some places are dry. Some are BYO. I work in a smallish city, lots of my service calls are on a particular stretch of interstate between my smallish city and the next smaller city. There is a place I pass pretty regularly along the road there that has been there since i was 10 (im 45 now for reference) that is full nude. and they provide setups for your alcohol. They refer to the women who work there as ‘models’. There is no pricing of sorts. Everything is arranged between the customer and the ‘model’. The model takes you back to their private booth/stall/whateverthefuck and what you two agree to, and the price you agree to is between you, the model, and the four walls. Because it is in the sticks out in the county, it is not regulated by any city entity.

There are some places where sex workers strip at, and will pursue ‘side work’ if the customer meets whatver standards the sex worker has.

There are also some places where if you look at the women improperly, youll be bounced on the spot with a lump on the side of your head for your troubles.

I guess it all depends on business/business location/owner/workers.

Yeah that sounds super fucking shady and totally a front for human trafficking.
I believe sex workers have a similar business model in Japan. You’re not paying for a prostitute - rather a hot woman conveniently shows up and thinks you’re cute and want to date you. So you buy her gifts, drinks from her employers, and just when you’ve spent enough money, then the date may proceed to what the lady and you agree to.
You never paid for sex. You simply went on an expensive date with a hot model.

Having never been myself, I'm speculating a bit, but I've talked about it with coworkers who go in the past and I suspect it's more of a power fantasy. It's a place where attractive women who wouldn't normally give them the time of day will fawn over them because they have money.

Yep that's the main appeal. Attractive women you pay to hang out with you. A temporary salve for loneliness in a world where real community is rare.
- I’ve read from some strippers who claim most of their clients pay them for a private dance then request to just talk lol. In the richest country, the only affordable medicine is alcohol, McDonald’s, guns, and strippers

Funny thread for the bear website, also really seems to have brought the @s out of the woodwork, typical

redditbrain stuff.

yeah Hexbear harbor a lot of misogyny that hasn't been properly addressed
- Uncool :/ best case scenario these type of threads could be used to weed that out, but alas..
- You’re not kidding. It’s usually fine, but there are some threads, like this one, that just straight up make me feel uncomfortable. It’s something that I wish would be addressed, but I have no idea where to start.
alexandra kollontai did not foresee what if strip club but gay
- Critical support to gay strip clubs under socialism

They exist for the same reason hooters exist. You do an already established activity (hooters: eat fast food, strip club: drinking alone), but then you add in cute girls who pretend to like you to make you feel less alone

Personally I’m looking forward for when they create sexualized basketball so I can have cute girls encourage me to shoot threes

It's worth noting that while you can't touch the workers, they're allowed to make quite a lot of contact with you. This leads to guys throwing money at pretty ladies in hopes of some mild foreplay.

Strip clubs have been around for a long, long time. I assume in a time before the internet and being able to see naked women on demand, going to a strip club was a more novel activity.

It’s also a social activity. Why do people like going to the bar? I’ve always thought going to the bar was stupid, but plenty of people have fun doing that. A strip club is sorta like a bar with near-naked women dancing. I’ve met women who like going to the strip club, either with other women or with their guy friends.

You strip and people pay you, obviously

I was a stripper briefly in my 20s, though not a very good one and not in a big city

AMA

not a very good one
bit idea: stripper who spends the whole song trying and failing to remove her hot pants
- bit idea: naive autistic stripper who doesn't understand the rules of engagement and also has strange ideas about what's sexy
  I think that's where ping pong shows come from
How’d you like it?
- The sexy naked dancing thing was very fun! The coworkers ranged from wonderful stripper godmother to malevolent girl-next-door, but the talking to guys thing was the worst because most of them were assholes.
  I quickly found out that dudes that looked outside the clientele's white redneck norm were better to talk to, though they usually didn't have as much money. My favorite customers were the only black man I ever saw in there and a cutie beardo in a wheelchair - 20 years later, I still remember that they both talked to me like a person instead of tits on legs.
  Focusing on trying to have enjoyable conversations with men I didn't instinctively hate made me pretty unsuccessful. The women who can lie convincingly to monsters really clean up!

When to a strip club 3 times in my life. The first time I was a young incel about 18 years old and fell in love with one of the ladies who was friendly with me. The stripping was boring. I was just lonely and needed a dream.

The other two times were boring as shit. It was a few years later and I didn't see the point in it. I always just wanted to chat with the women, and was low key jealous of the women in my party who attended and did just that with the workers, but without the weirdness of male/female relations in a strip club. I stopped going after that, amd just tops my friends no if they asked to go together.

Later I would find a girlfriend and stopped being a weird incel. Then I would transition and stopped being jealous of women.

The only other "strip" show I watched, I don't count because was legitimate burlesque and the performers were incredible, doing crazy rope tricks and magic, and one guy had a wild 3D shadow puppet show.

did he incorporate his dong in the shadow puppets?
- He may have, but he was behind a screen the entire time. There were a red and blue light diagonally behind him, and a screen between him and the audience. When you put on the 3D glasses, the shadows themselves had depth, but only at the edges. If he threw a ball between the lights behind him, it looked likr he threw a ball right at your face. It was incredibly convincing, but it wasn't hog

Waste money lol

How a society wastes its excess has primarily been sacred and religious throughout history. In the West, this is our god

Thanks for this thread I asked myself the same questions

I've never been to one, but apparently the ones in the US have like an unlimited breakfast food buffet? I assume some people are having the saddest pancakes of their lives while having someone dance in the vicinity.

M'am please stop sticking your yaboos in my face I am trying to enjoy my egg mcmuffin.

I have done some bouncing. Your bread and butter client is there for emotional not sexual gratification. For the cost of a fancy dinner like you get to experience beeing a rock star. Beautiful women talk to you, compliment you, seek out your attention. If you a monogamous cis het normal guy you get to experience the thrill of cheating in a safe controlled environment.

Pretty girls are a plus but even boomers get tired of that fairly quickly.

Yeah it’s interesting I’ve heard from some strippers that a lot of clients pay them for a private conversation lol.

Ok but it is awesome when there's boobs

Have a wank and get kicked out

You can do this in all places everywhere

Drink, be sad on the inside but look happy on the outside?

Holdover from the pre-internet-porn (specifically when it became easily accessible to most people) days.

Basically the brick and mortar equivalent to a Playboy, not even a Hustler. Though admittedly with the non-magazine advantage of there being a real live person at least.

It's the type of place you go to to talk with 99% naked women about sports.

At least that was my only experience, I have no plans on going back.

Edge and annoy women

used to do drugs and go with an ex gf. not really sure why we would go but she was into it so whatever.

I mean if she was high too then anything is good high lol

jork it (my peanits)

in all seriousness theres been queer strip club nights popping up in my city which sounds kinda fun if everyones being chill and respectful

Queer sexual exploitation

Bring a light up yoyo. Compete with the strippers.

Because you can stare at them dancing without being uncomfortable for them.

You can't jerk off so they just go to get boners with their buddies? You can do that at home. You can just watch porn with the fellas or have a circlejerk.

you're thinking too much about the naked women part of your average strip club and not the "$0.99c wing night" or "$0.50c beer night" that most have every week. That is why the average 'masculine straight' group of bros is going to the strip club.

How often does that happen? Because almost no straight dude ever talks about it around here, and they’re always seeking cheap food and booze at every second.
- I mean - it is going to be completely dependent on your area but as someone who has lived in multiple big cities/college towns, it is not unusual for a strip club to have dollar wing/beer/shots nights.
  As a gay man in college it used to drive me up the wall because inevitably, if we were drinking on a Wednesday, my straight fratboy friends would want to go to one of the clubs specifically because it was dollar wing night. I went with them a few times but not once did they ever suggest the strip club specifically to go watch the strippers. It was always 'we're hitting the club after the bar closes cause they're open til 4am and it's dollar wing night bro!!!', never 'lets go get lap-dances at the club!!' lol.
  Not to say that there aren't weirdos/men who do go to strip clubs specifically to satisfy their horny urges via private dances - but to this day, 8 years out of college, I have a friend who is literally married and will still occasionally go to the strip club WITH his wife specifically for food after they've been out drinking. (To be fair to them, they aren't hitting a dive-bar type strip club - they go to one that is pretty popular in their area for the food and charges like $20 for a plate of nachos; but still, it is a strip club)

im a straight dude in my 30s and ive never been to a strip club. i'd rather kill myself. paying money for attractive women to be nice to you is such an admission of being a loser, i couldn't live with myself after that

Death to America

Look a naked boobies

The one time I went to a strip club. I went in with a creepy feeling. By the time I left I was completely blown away by the athleticism. Clapping and throwing money like a complete simp. They were so cool.

strip

My grandfather, a construction worker, said the strip clubs would cash their paychecks for free and would often be the only place in town that would. He did a lot of traveling around for work so he spent a lot of weeks in hotels in unfamiliar cities.

I live in a country where strip clubs don't really exist (I mean I've heard of like one existing, that's it) but when I was 18 or 19 a bar I frequented had an events night where they hired two strippers: a girl and a guy. I went out of curiosity and honestly I felt weird afterwards, standing in a crowd of horny men looking at a woman undressing, and everybody also theatrically showing disgust at the male stripper because "that's gay". Weird shit.

I have however been to burlesque and that's a cool show, horny but also artsy and fun.

i'm not a swerf, but