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LAP DANCE CONSUMER'S GUIDE |
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LAP DANCE GLOSSARY
Eddie's guide to the dances, the girls, and the local customs... Air dance: This is a lap dance or table dance where there is very little contact between the dancer and customer. That is, there’s a lot of air between them. The term is often used derogatorily by customers who were expecting or hoping for more physical contact. B-girl: Whenever a girl in a strip club asks you to buy her a drink, she’s “B-girling” you. I don’t think any of the Vegas clubs have dedicated B-girls anymore, but a lot of them used to. The term is almost obsolete. Now they just have their dancers doing B-girl work. Traditionally, a B-girl was a bar girl. She worked for the bar and it was her job to sell drinks. A B-girl dresses sexily and flirts. Most guys think she’s either a hooker or a drunk, and she leads them to believe they might score with her later if they get her soused. Actually, the bartender is in on the scam and doesn’t put alcohol in her drinks. All those vodka tonics she’s swilling are just soda water. At the end of her shift, the bartender pays her a percentage for her drink sales. There used to be a titty bar on Paradise called the Crazy Horse Saloon (not to be confused with Crazy Horse Too) that had a very aggressive dancer/b-girl scene. Each dancer was required to sell (and drink) one drink per hour during her shift. They didn’t water down the dancers’ drinks, but I once sat with the bartender there and we estimated that the club was probably selling an extra thousand bucks a day in drinks to dancers. They had a lot of dancers. They wouldn’t allow the dancers to drink non-alcoholic beverages, so every girl in the place was an alcoholic. Lots of them complained about the policy. They weren’t alcoholics before they got the job, but after a month or so, they found they were drinking all day long on their days off. I doubt any club in Vegas could get away with a policy like this today without getting sued, busted, and shut down. But it goes to show how fucked up the thinking in this industry has been historically. This was still going on at the Crazy Horse Saloon as recently as about fifteen years ago. Dancers in some clubs today can get their stage fees reduced by selling drinks, so technically it’s just a variation on the old B-girl ploy. Etiquette for Customers: Some of this should be obvious to any guy with half a brain, but I’ve heard so many complaints from dancers about so many of these things through the years, that I’m just going to be blunt. If you don’t know this stuff already, then read it and consider yourself educated. 1) Before you go to a strip club, take a shower, put on clean clothes, and use mouthwash and deodorant. If this doesn’t make sense to you, consider it from the dancer’s perspective. Imagine that it’s your job to walk around this dark crowded room in a g-string, sitting in guys’ laps, and hoping they don’t try to pinch your nipples. Obviously, no guy would actually have the guts to do what these girls do for a living, but just try to imagine that’s your job. Wouldn’t you at least want these guys to be clean? 2) If you are sitting on the rail (stage front seat), you should tip each dancer. One buck won’t kill you, and if you’re that broke then sit elsewhere. This is especially true if all other seats on the rail are occupied. If you’re not tipping, give the seat to a guy who will tip. Dancers have to pay the club to dance on that stage, and more than you pay to enter the club. The club doesn’t pay the dancers. The dancers pay for the right to dance for you, hoping that you’ll think they’re sexy enough and pretty enough to tip them. Get a clue. 3) If a dancer approaches you to offer a lap dance, a private show, whatever—and you have no intention of taking her up on the offer—always be polite to her. Don’t cut her off when she’s talking. Tell her she’s cute and you’re tempted but you just want to watch the show. If she persists, just keep saying “Maybe later.” Never be rude. 4) Never ask a dancer for her phone number. Never ask a dancer for a date. Never ask her what her real name is. And never ask her if she’s open to any type of prostitution. If you’re looking for a girlfriend or just a one-night stand, you won’t find what you’re looking for in a strip club. Go to a pick-up bar. (Sorry, I don’t cover pick-up bars.) If you’re looking for a prostitute, drive up to Pahrump where it’s legal. Respect dancers for the work they do and save your fuck fantasies for when you get home. 5) If you are with a dancer who allows you to touch her during a lap or VIP room dance, never try to touch her in any way that she discourages. She should not have to discourage your hands more than once. And always touch her gently. If she lets you feel her up, never squeeze or pinch her nipples. Never be rough in any way, and never, ever, try to kiss a dancer on the mouth. 6) Finally, respect every dancer’s limits. It’s not what the club allows, or what the law allows. It’s what the dancer allows. If every guy in the VIP room is getting a full contact lap dance, and the dancer with you is into air dancing only, then live with it. Treat her with respect. If you feel the dance you’re getting is far below the normal standards for this club, and you’ve seen this dancer provide full contact laps for other guys just prior to your dance, then I’d suggest you go back and read Etiquette Rule #1 above. Etiquette for Dancers: Again, mostly obvious stuff: 1) Cool it on the perfume if you’re trying to sell lap dances. Many guys have to go home to wives or girlfriends, and these guys will not allow perfumed dancers to touch them. 2) Some guys don’t want to be part of the show. If you typically take dollar bills from a guy’s mouth with your titties, don’t assume every guy on the rail wants to tip you this way. Some guys just want to watch. There are guys who won’t tip a dancer who insists on putting him in the show this way. 3) Don’t badger a guy for a lap dance, a drink, or anything else. If he says no politely, let it go. If you think he’s just too shy to say yes, then engage him in conversation for a minute or two, and ask once more if you could change his mind. Then drop it. 4) If you approach a guy for a lap dance, let him see you before you ask. Don’t come up from behind a guy and whisper in his ear. Every guy has a “type” of girl he likes—short, tall, blonde, brunette, big tits, little tits, cute butt, whatever. You want him to check you out before you ask. A lot of guys don’t like turning around to see the girl who’s whispering at them from behind, and obviously trying to look at the girl’s body before answering. They don’t want you to feel rejected if they don’t like what they see, so they just say no without looking, like they’re not in the mood. I can’t even tell you how many dancers I’ve said no to, then as I watched her walk away, thought, geez, if I’d have seen that cute ass I’d have said yes in a heartbeat! 5) Finally, be gentle and easy with all guys. Never just plop down on a guy’s lap to ask him if he wants a lap dance. Sit down only after he says yes. During a lap dance, don’t be rough. Don’t box a guy’s face with your boobs. There may be a humor element to doing this to a guy who’s on stage for a bachelor party, but most guys do not find this erotic. Don’t pinch a guy’s nipples. Many men (and women) do not find this a turn on. Even if you like rough handling, having your nipples pinched, etc., you wouldn’t want every guy to immediately treat you this way. Do unto others. Floor work: This is, as the term implies, dancing on the floor. It is generally the sexiest part of a dancer’s routine because the postures mimic poses and movements in a bed. Go-go: This term isn’t used in Vegas. It’s fairly common on the east coast, especially in New Jersey in clubs where dancers cannot remove tops or bottoms. A go-go club features bikini dancing only. G-string: A dancer’s string thong with nary more than a triangle of cloth for covering the pussy. Lap dance: This is a dance that occurs in or on a customer’s lap. That is, the dancer sits down and moves erotically. A lap dance lasts for one song (generally 3 minutes). Nude: As the term implies, the dancer in a nude club takes off everything (or more often everything but her heels). In Las Vegas, only clubs that do not serve alcohol may allow nude dancing. (There is one exception to this rule in North Las Vegas.) Pasties: These are little nipple coverings required in some locales, thankfully not in Vegas. Dancers hate them because they often irritate the nipples. In some clubs where pasties are the law, dancers in the dressing rooms are all using salves and cortisone and whatnot on their bleeding nipples. Pasties should be outlawed. Pole work: This is dancing, or more accurately, gymnastics, performed on a brass or stainless steel pole mounted on the stage. Some dancers have developed pole work to an art form. (The most phenomenal pole work I’ve seen in Vegas is at Little Darlings.) Private dance: Some clubs have private rooms where customers can have a dance, usually at a much higher price than a lap dance out on the main floor. Private dances are often sold in multiples, like 3 songs for $100, or specific time periods, like 30 minutes for $200. Rail: A seat on the rail is a seat at the front of the stage where you can tip the stage dancer. The term comes from the low brass railing that many strip clubs used to have around the stage perimeter. (In fact, many older strip clubs in quite a few cities are named “The Brass Rail.”) Whether or not the stage has a rail today, if you sit up front, you’re on the rail. Shower show: A few clubs in Vegas have showers on or near the stage, or in a private area, where a customer can pay to watch a dancer take a shower. This is generally paid for separately. Shower shows became popular in Canadian strip clubs about 20 years ago and have since entered many US clubs. Silicone: I generally use the term silicone to denote breast enhancement, though silicone was not used (by law) for more than ten years. A saline solution was used for boob jobs during this period, as it was considered safer. Recently, however, the FDA reclassified silicone inserts as legal for breast augmentation, so silicone will likely become the standard again. There is an argument that silicone inserts create a more natural looking (and moving) breast. A boob job generally costs $1500 to $3000. Most dancers insist that a boob job not only increases their tips, but gets them work in many of the higher-end clubs where boobs reign supreme. Stage fee: In most U.S. strip clubs, including all of them in Las Vegas, dancers must pay a stage fee to perform. This is like a cover charge. Dancers are not considered employees of the strip clubs, but are instead private contractors. Stage fees vary from club to club, and often vary within the same club based on the shift and day of week. Between stage fees and "tipouts" (see below), a dancer may have to earn $100 or more in tips and lap dance charges per shift just to cover her required payments to the club. Table dance: In Las Vegas, this is the same thing as a lap dance. In some cities, a table dance is an air dance on or near a customer’s table. Theme room: Some clubs provide small rooms for private shows decorated according to special themes. For example, a club may have a room decorated like a hospital room, where a dancer will dress like a nurse, or a school room where a dancer will dress like a schoolgirl. Theme room dances are often more expensive than regular VIP room dances. Tipout: Most strip clubs require dancers to “tip” other strip club employees, typically including the bartenders, bouncers, and door men, and sometimes even the managers. In some clubs, the tipout is a set percentage of a dancer’s collections from lap dances, private dances, etc. In other clubs, the tipout is not mandatory, but often is considered mandatory by the dancers nevertheless, as it will affect the shifts and days of the week they are allowed to work, introductions to high-rollers, etc. The tipouts and stage fees that dancers must pay to work in a club generally range from about $25 per shift to over $100 in the high-end clubs. Tipping Guidelines: Las Vegas strip club dancers work for tips. They are not employees of the clubs where they work. Like the customers, they also pay to get in the door, and they pay the club more to work there than the customers pay to see them work. Depending on the club, stage fees and tipouts can cost each dancer upwards of $100 per shift. If a dancer does not garner a substantial amount more than her club fees in tips, she cannot afford to work as a dancer. Not tipping dancers is therefore a greater sin than not tipping waitresses in restaurants. Waitresses at least don't pay to work. The only reason you go to a strip club is to see the dancers. No one would go to a strip club to drink, since the drinks are so overpriced, and these clubs have nothing else to offer. One of the reasons we see so many unattractive and talentless dancers is that the clubs do not need high standards. If a dancer can generate enough tip money to survive, the club has nothing to lose by keeping her on. Some terrible dancers are good at hustling tips, and some of the best dancers are not all that good as hustlers. As a general rule, you should tip the dancers you like the most, and don’t tip the dancers you don’t care for. If I don’t like most of the dancers in a club, I don’t patronize that club. If I don’t care for a particular dancer on stage, I get off the rail. I view a lap dance primarily as a way to tip a dancer I really like. A lot of guys view a lap dance as a way to feel up a dancer who has big tits, and for this reason a lot of less-than-stellar dancers make a lot of money. You never have to tip a lap dancer more than the set club fee. But if you give the dancer an extra $5 or $10, she really appreciates it. If you do not have the money for a lap dance, and you really like a dancer, then tip her $5 or whatever you can afford when she comes around trying to sell laps. Just tell her you want to tip her because you love the way she dances, but you don’t have the money for a lap dance. Remember that dancers make their money from us, not the clubs, and we want to ensure the survival of the finest. And don’t forget that dancers are performers. Applause is often as important to a performer as money, and there is very little applause for stage dancers in strip clubs. If you get a lap dance, lavish the dancer with praise for her beauty, her talent, her sexiness. These girls work hard for their money, so say whatever you can to let the really good dancers know how much they are appreciated. They’re working in a business that is primarily greed-based, designed to make money for the club owners, with no real concern for the customers’ satisfaction or the dancers’ working conditions. Topless: a topless show is a show where the dancers shows their titties, including nipples. In Las Vegas, all topless clubs are clubs where alcohol is served. VIP room: This is a room away from the regular stage dance area where dancers can entertain customers who pay extra for a more comfortable and private setting. VIP rooms often require that a customer pay a specified bar tab, or purchase a bottle of champagne in addition to the room charge. Most VIP rooms are not private rooms, but rooms where half a dozen or more customers can be entertained at once. --Eddie Montana
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The Erotic Dance Code is a Las Vegas city ordinance that says that dancers cannot engage in “fondling and caressing” activity with patrons of a strip club if the fondling and caressing is deemed to be sexually arousing.
