Strip Clubs!

Hmm. I don't think there's one answer. Some of 'em are degrading. Some of 'em are fun.

I have known people who stripped at each of those types of venues. The degrading stuff really is degrading, and colors how I see the stuff that really might be fun. I haven't really worked the whole thing out to my satisfaction, since I've read all this stuff by people who said at the time that they loved it and then realized it was all part of a pathological approach to sex and power, blahbedy blah.

I don't care if my husband goes as a general concept, just no lap dances/ touching. Looking is fine. (He hasn't, but likes telling all of his buddies he could if he wanted to. This evidently gets him not-whipped points.)

I'm one of those women who detest those places.

I think they are boring (no fun to just look), but I think the people who condemn them care too much about what consenting adults do.

McDonalds is degrading, the dating scene can be degrading, and strip clubs are classy in comparison to some kinds of feminism.

One of my best friends used to 'dance'. She had talent. Most of these overstuffed 'ladies' can't follow a beat, maybe counting to 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, is difficult.

I'm with Soz, I could care less if my guy goes just don't touch, that is, if it gets your rocks off.

I've been to strip clubs. Some are disgusting and some are fun, like others have said before me. When I looked around at the men who were at the clubs while women were stripping, I saw most of them not watching, just drinking a beer with their buds. And, it wasn't because the woman doing her thing was unattractive, I don't think. But, there were the real icky guys who I found really disturbing.

I think I'd be a bit dismayed if my guy wanted to hang out at a strip club, but I'd have to hear his reasons before deciding how I really felt about it.

I can understand a guy going once in awhile for fun. I think that anyone who goes on a regular basis has a problem.

I went to a male strip joint once when my girlfriend had a bachelorette party. I was right in the middle of the action, putting dollar bills in the guy's "G" string, and laughing hilariously.

After I left, I had the feeling "been there, done that". I would never go again.

as a not quiet 60 year old american man, I find it odd to admit I have never been in a strip club.

I've been once too, didn't do much for me but I was surprised at how vocal and demonstrative the women were. Guys would never get away with such rowdy behavior in a club. They'd be out on thier ear, fast.

I thought it fun to watch men strip, but it was mostly very silly. They were such prima donnas! And they had fake little thingies slapping around inside their thongs.

I swear it.
Maybe you can go to a strip club yet, dys!

Me?....naw.....not interested in watching women jirate around a pole stripping and flashing me with thier ass....ets.

Husband....would hope he wouldn't want to go, wouldn't tell him no, but wouldn't be happy about it either. Would have some explaining to do, since we've been married over 16 years and he's never been in one. His new found interest would jolt my mind.

BUT....I have been in one, wasn't a choice at the time, we were searching for a woman that was missing and heard tell of her working there. I was going to stay in the car (protect it) till a man walked by and exposed hisself to me....lol, lets just say I felt safer among the naked women!

Just fine
Strip clubs are more degrading to the man spending all his money. He looks like the fool. I have some dancer girlfriends and they live decent lives. One girl is married to a friend of mine. They have three kids and a decent home. She brings more money home than he does as a diesel mechanic.

As for me, I like to go to strip clubs. I'll have a few drinks and sit back and relax. I can't approach the girls on stage because they all get shy over me. So, I sit at the bar and talk to the girls there. We talk about everything and just have a good time. Nothing better than relaxing with a few drinks and having gorgeous women all around you.

I haven't been to a regular strip club. Have been to Chippendale's on a girlsnightout, was, sad to say, bored. One of my teachers sometime later moonlighted there, he also was in fetching ads in the LA Weekly. Wore velvet jackets to faculty parties.... an interesting man, vastly talented in, uh, other disciplines, as in the design world.

I have tended to think that strip clubs developed as sustenance for guys who din't get none, or were otherwise in the midst of sexually unfulfilling lives. I guess I'd still say that, as a long term attraction. As far as enjoying them for liking local color, being comfortable, I can understand that.
I have danced on the tables at a bar myself, luckily it was closed, so I am not speaking from sainthood, more like ennui.

I've never been to a strip joint, and I never want to do so. I am one of these (non-militant) feminists who finds most things degrading- strip clubs, pornography, obligation, society- and I sometimes feel that there's more disequality now than there was before the 'emancipation.' A piece of flesh does nothing to attract me, if it be not attached to a personality and love. I agree somewhat with Michael; such a system makes a man a fool. Yet, the whole ethos is... yack. I'm not one for blanketing statements, but any of the women who would put their dignity on the line thus could never attract me.

I agree with ossobuco too; luckily I need no outside inspiration...

I went to the Doll House once. when the girl came up to me, I ran my credit card through the crack of her ass because i didn't have any cash on me.

They won't let me back in.

Oh my God...

I'm actually laughing out loud for the first time since Thursday...

I think such institutions are fundamentally demeaning.. but Bear, that made me laugh... what an idea; I'm still laughing now. Thank you.

You're welcome....enjoy while you can...you will probably soon join the ranks of veteran posters who, rather than find me amusing, find me tiresome. :wink:

Bear, your take on the world is anything but tiresome.

I was in a strip club only once, as an undergraduate. I found the whole thing sad, both the concept and the people involved (audience and "dancers").