Over the Wall

Thou shalt practice, practice, practice. Thou shall not resist mints, soap, and deodorant as your friends. Thou shalt befriend the snake. Thou shall not be a bitch. Thou shalt accept no for an answer. Thou shall not blame the customer. Thou shalt act like an entertainer in a customer service business. Thou shall not forget your shit is not our shit (and vice versa). Thou shalt earn (not expect) a tip. Thou shall not rip the customers off.

Found some links recently to Top 10 lists with a twist, they're strip club related from the perspective of dancers and customers. The ones below were the most interesting of those I read. I think I'll take a stab at writing my own, and maybe will post some thoughts on the ones I've linked to. Consider this entry a work in progress... From a Customer Perspective: http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/09/10/the-10-stripper-commandments This is best of the ones I ran across. The pictures were appropriate, the commentary was hilarious and it is clear this is the set most imitated around the web. http://visionz74.blogspot.com/2006/01/10-strip-club-commandments.html http://topolk.blogspot.com/2006/10/eap-classicmix-strip-club-commandments.html http://dimewars.com/Superlatives/Default.aspx?SuperlativeID=131 (mashup) From a Dancer Perspective: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/165448/strip_club_etiquette_top_ten_rules.html?cat=7 http://askastripper.blogspot.com/2009/04/stri

Seattle, I knew you not. So this town had a great reputation for years and years in the club scene. Apparently so great that LE had to go and foul it up for everyone. Houston is well known in circles for LE taking things to the extreme and ruining what was the best SC scene in the entire country (including that diamond in the rough known as Providence). Seattle has some noise on the wire about obvious cop magnets such as Rick's, but it wasn't until I stopped through town recently that the full extent of the total ass that is the current climate was witnessed in full bloom. So what's wrong? Is it the girls? No, not exactly. Is it the mileage? No, not exactly. Is it the absolutely ridiculous levels of cop paranoia gripping all strippers from the dimes to the dingbats? Bingo. Disco. Exactamundo. I've been through dozens of towns, hundreds of clubs, thousands of, er, sessions and have never seen anything like Seattle 2009. The horror. the horror...

How to resolve the hobby with the rest of your life? There's this discussion board that I participate in with one of the better run strip club information sites online. I do a lot more reading than writing there, because quite frankly I still have the opinion that owning one's words means something. A lot of what I write could be utter bullshit, or it could be spot on truth. If this persona that spouts off about all things stripper had to stand side by side with the one that spun it off I'd like to think it wouldn't be that destructive to claim it. It's what I'd like to think...

It's early 2009. If you're in the U.S. and many places in the industrialized world, your economy is in a little bit of a slump. Actually, if you're in the U.S. the economy is in the crapper and businesses all around are taking it in the shorts. Strip clubs included. So if you're the proprietor of a certain type of establishment, what do you do? Does the typical manager of a middle to high tier strip club have an MBA? I don't have any real insight into that (and don't have one either). I'm more concerned with the customer side of it myself, given that I'm a customer. To the point. In clubs where I spend a buck or two on a semi-regular basis, as the economy has tanked the prices have not gone down but up. I'll give two examples. Both in Maryland. The first has a couple of things going for it. It is just outside of Northern DC, and as is widely known DC has been the freaking armpit of the strip club world for quite some time. Taking one last run through

The gist of the news story is that a research group over at Princeton reported findings at the 2009 AAAS annual meeting that male brains responded to images of women in bikinis as they would to objects such as tools. There is little firm data in the public about the mechanics of the study, other than it involved 21 undergraduates who were required to undergo MRI brain scans along with completing questionnaires as part of the research. Reaction to the disclosure of the findings has been both broad and swift. As of today, the Top 200 hits on Google for "men bikini objects" is dominated by references to the story (or 20 pages deep in the search hits) and on Twitter the search hits are 6 pages deep for what on the science could be considered a marginal item of interest. Links to the story: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/19/women.bikinis.objects/index.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090216-bikinis-women-men-objects.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/scien