Strip Bars: search and destroy

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i went to the Baby Doll Lounge for a bachelor party. i was by stages apprehensive, shocked, comfortable, uncomfortable because i had become comfortable, and then drunk.

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i. clientele (straight? mixed? business dudes? white-owl pimps?)

ii. The vibe in the place. (like a john cassavetes movie? or like TGI Friday's?)

iii. if you have to wear nice shoes, obviously dud.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the only cunt i have seen live was at a strip show and an artsits studio. I find them tawdry and boring. The only place where this happens !

― anthony, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think anthony means strip clubs, rather than cunts.

I prefer the hanle y hous e of homoeroti c horn s.

― Geoff, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think anthony probably finds cunt tawdry and boring too going by past comments.

The transaction part of strip clubs is very fluid and unsettling. You pay based on a vibe. On what you want or think you got. Everything's unwritten. Except for the huge sign saying "Dot Not Touch the Dancers."

The Baby Doll is like one small room of an apartment. EXTREMELY raw. The girls were "all natural", they were right in your face, and sat and drank with us during the other girls' sets. We were lucky to have a huge dyke krewe with us so the room was actually split about 50/50 men and women. At one point two kind of hackett white women showed up and stood off by themselves, not knowing anyone. It turned out that they were passing thru town, needed the money, and were told they could come to the Baby Doll to pick up some extra cake, which they did - the J-Lo, Aaliyah, and 112 suddenly switched to Limp Bizkit and they did their thing. I'm sure some of the girls lead lives of quiet desperation and some nights must be dismal, but for the time we were their our great mood was infectious; the room was positive. Like music, I think I prefer my porn live and in the flesh. You have to share.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only time I've been in a strip club my band was playing there. The place was skanky & stale smelling when me & Heazlewood went there in the afternoon to take our stuff in. There was a late- period Shadows album - "Deer Hunter" era or maybe later, just the worst tinselly sounding depressing crap - playing over the PA & Heazlewood turned on a spotlight & stood in the spotlight on the empty stage in this crappy empty club with his un- plugged-in guitar, eyes closed, lost in a dream. Then he got down off the stage & walked up to & fixed me with an intense stare & said fervently "This is the fucking coolest place I've ever been in my life". As if defying me to argue. I didn't bother but it was just crappy. Playing there was crappy too. I hate shit like that.

― duane, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My freind just went and got a lap dance and as he described it it seeme like he hired a prostitute. Dud I say.

― Pennysong Hanle y, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: The Soft Cell song "Baby Doll" which is about that very establishment. It's the one in Tribeca, right? There's one here in LA called Jumbo's Clown Room where all the famous rock chicks used to dance. They have bands, occasionally. I find them all a little embarrassing/depressing, even when I go with lesbian friends and the girls working are just as friendly/silly as can be. Maybe I should just get drunk, but it's rather pricey at those places. There was a gay place in NY called the Gaiety that was quite popular with the club crowd in the Eighties. Featured in Madonna's Sex book. Never liked that much, either. People go-go dancing on bars is usually classic, though.

(Pound signs inserted so I don't get that annoying cut off thing again, Tracer. If they even show

― Arthur, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why does Greenspun keep eating my words! Waaaaaaahhhhhh! #####################

― Arthur, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sometimes I think I actively seek embarrassing/depressing situations.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanle y describing titty bars as dud? Between this and the proposed PPV llama-vs-hanle y spitting contest, I've been pegging him wrong all over the place.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was on holidays my mates kept saying we should go to a Strip Bar and eventually they did. I didn't go though, call me a snob or something but I just think I'm 18, I've enough confidence in my ability to meet women or try to that I'd feel like a fool in a Strip Bar. I realise its all harmless fun and all, but I'll go to Strip Bars when I feel I really have to, before that I think I'll pass. The weird thing is my friends were shocked by this.

― Ronan, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find cunts boring not tawdry. Sorry gals .

― anthony, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

total dud. who wants to throw money away to girls pretending to be interested in you?

― ernest, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What do you mean 'pretending'? Like, they always look straight at me!

― dave q, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

i think these pig pens just add to the degregation of a marriage/relationship- they should be burned down.. hey one less place to throw away money. and one less temptation for the eyes of man. With a divorce rate at nearly 72%, mainly due to infidelity, I believe the closing down of these filth holes, dens of inequity and sin would decrease the number drastically. my opinion, but there is no fun in waiting at home for your spouse to come home drunk to you after a night of strippers and lap dances to get off because his hormones are racing, from someone that gets paid to degrade themselves.

― stephani, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

good plan but also burn down all offices, as many people have filthy affairs with co-workers.

― fritz, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't wait -- go with him.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I personally find the chintziness of the clientele & the needing/wanting money pitches of the staff to be the most disturbing thing.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wanting money is disturbing?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the whole sex = money dynamic and cajoling for it.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude you got sex at a strip club??

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

me and an ex got dragged to a strip club by the legendary matthew middleton. it was called cleopatras. i wasn't offended by the naked girls, but i was offended that they couldn't dance for shit. i told the manager i could pull a better boogie out of my rectum, and he offered me a job. i wasn't offended by that either, i could've used the money, however i got offended AGAIN when he told me it was only $10 an hour. WTF? i get paid MORE for smiling at people and punching a few keys, without having to contribute to societies ideas of women as belonging in zoos.

― di, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you can get laid at some strip clubs, they sometimes have a parlour upstairs.

― di, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Di he wanted all your tips?? Fuck that noise! On the sex thing. I have no doubt that kind of thing goes on. But that's not what you're being hassled for usually. As I understand it hem hem.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, you can't give tips at cleopatras. wheres the fun in that.

― di, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer: no.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/us/houston-and-its-strip-clubs-call-a-truce.html?_r=0

― j., Friday, 3 January 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

at long last the houston strip club wars have come to an end

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 3 January 2014 18:19 (eleven years ago)

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