Ultimate Strip Club and dancing guide

Had lots of questions about what dancing at a club actually involves well it varies from club to club however the following should give you a good idea of what to expect..

As far as dancing is concerned a lot depends on the club. You have to see the way the other strippers dance. Some clubs don’t allow floor or pole work, while in others they do all that plus shower and lesbian shows. Even if you’re straight, the lesbian shows can be a lot of fun but they are never mandatory. Most clubs work on a standard 3 song set. That means for the first song when you’re on stage you have all your clothes on, the second, you remove something and for the last you wear either nothing or just a thong depending on whether it’s a nude or topless club. There is not a whole lot to dancing- at least the basics. You do not need lessons or to buy a video.

Just watch what the other girls are doing, you’ll pick it up in a few minutes. Just avoid anything showy or dramatic until you know how to do it right. Before you audition I would suggest trying out some of your moves in front of a mirror then getting some constructive criticism from a guy (they can be very helpful and are usually delighted to assist). Once you get to know the other dancers they will generally help out and show you some of the trickier moves. In my opinion it can be fun perfecting your dancing technique but not something you should spend a lot of time at. Guys appreciate a good dancer but seldom buy dances from a girl based on her dancing ability. You’re better off spending the time working out and improving your physique.

Carmen Electra Lapdance hot Carmen Electra’s tips on pole dancing and erotic dance.

Auditioning and dancing

Your first and most important concern is to find a suitable club. It needs to be a place where you feel safe and comfortable. It doesn’t matter how good the money is, if the place makes you feel bad about yourself you’ll be miserable working there. Go to the Ultimate Strip Club List and look for clubs in your area. The reviews will give you a very good idea of whether it’s a place you want to work. i.e. If the guy says, “Wow, it was great. This girl let me feel her up” It’s obviously not a place you want to work. Looking for a good club is like looking for any other job- you want to get the most money for the least amount of work.

Different Types of Strip Clubs

• Topless Clubs – usually serve alcohol and provide lap dances (private, high contact, one-on-one topless dances).
• Nude Clubs – usually only serve soda and juice (hence the nickname juice-bar), or some may be BYOB. Lap dances may be performed completely nude, but more often than not the dancers will wear g-strings or bikinis for lap dances while going completely nude on stage.
• Gentlemen’s Clubs – Much like a topless club, but usually serve lunch and dinner. They are also more upscale, with one of more raised stages with poles, lighting and sound systems. Lots of beautiful dancers and usually more expensive than regular topless clubs.
• Bikini Bars – Like a neighborhood bar, but all the bartenders and waitresses wear bikinis. Usually no lap dances are offered.
• Hostess Clubs – the 21st century’s answer to dime-a-dance places from a time gone by. Pick a girl to dance with.

Auditioning

When you’re ready, just show up at the club and say you’d like an audition, be nice to whoever is working the door- they frequently screen girls for the managers. They may ask you to come back on another night but they normally just put you on one of the side stages. One of the managers will watch you dance for a few songs then talk to you a little bit to make sure you’ve got a good attitude, etc.

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Strip Clubs from around the world.

The Best Topless Clubs, Nude Clubs, Gentlemen’s Clubs, and Bikini Bars

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Posted on May 23rd, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

LOL just wilfing around on the internet and came across these pole & lap dancing definitions I thought were interesting.

Pole dance Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Cite This Source Pole dancing is a form of dancing/gymnastics that takes muscular endurance and coordination as well as sensuality. It involves dancing sensually with a vertical pole and is often used in strip clubs and gentlemen’s clubs, although more recently artistic pole dancing (Chinese poles) is used in cabaret/circus and stage performance in a non-erotic environment. In a strip club setting, pole dancing is often performed less gymnastically and combined with striptease, and/or lap dancing between performers. The dancer(s) may simply hold the pole, or use it to perform more athletic moves such as climbs, spins, and body inversions. Upper body and core strength are important to proficiency, which takes time to develop. Pole dancing is now regarded as a recognised form of exercise and can be used as both an aerobic and anaerobic workout. Recognised schools and qualifications are being developed as pole dancing increases in popularity. Pole dancing is also regarded by many as a performing art. Chinese pole Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Cite This Source Chinese Poles are vertical steel poles on which circus performers climb, slide down and hold poses. The poles are generally between 3 and 9 meters in height and approximately 3 to 4 inches in diameter. A few Chinese poles tricks have been incorporated with erotic pole dancing techniques. To improve the grip on the poles they are sometimes covered with rubber. This rubber leaves burn marks on the Chinese pole artists shoulders. These marks are used as a sign in the circus world for Chinese pole artists to recognize each other. The most famous trick is “the flag” where the artist hangs straight out from the pole with his or her hands. This requires a very strong upper body. A few people are able to do push ups in this position, and even fewer can rotate the legs around in a circle-this requires enormous core strength. Those crazy chinese eh !

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Tips

The most important part of this is not your moves (for sure, these help) but it’s your ability to “sell” yourself. Saying “Hi I’m ___ wanna lap-dance?” will not cut it. How about trying “Hi! How was your day? Oh mine was peachy!” “So how was work? Oh sorry to hear you got fired from the cheese factory.” rub leg I’m sure you get the idea, you’re there to entertain. Treat them like they’re the cutest, smartest, most interesting person you’ve ever met. But if they don’t give you money, in say 4 songs worth, then walk away. You’re here to make money and time is precious.

Don’t try any pole tricks straight away other than basic spins

Do not talk to the other dancers when you’re auditioning, no matter how nervous you are

Do not give compliments to everyone there.

Make sure your hair and makeup is done before you audition.

Make sure you are properly shaved/waxed in all areas and keep it that way everyday you go to work.

To prevent irritation after shaving your pubic area, pat dry and apply anti-perspirant.

When counting your money the first night – or any night – don’t brag or show your money. Always keep your money on you at work – and don’t bring any TO work.

Move slowly on stage your first times until you feel your groove.

Don’t wear glitter or very heavy perfume. This rubs off on the customer and makes it harder for him to be discreet about where he’s just been. You may not get as many dances for this reason, so no glitter and apply perfume lightly or use a body mist.

Try to find something, anything, attractive about each customer and focus on it. That way you don’t have to become a total bullshit artist.

If they say ‘what will you do for £x’, walk away, they’re not worth your time. You have the right and privilege to reject anyone.

The choices you make, make you and if you choose to do this you can never unchoose it.

When first starting on the pole, don’t put your heels on, just in case.

Make sure to follow the club rules for dancing.

This includes ;

Don’t do drugs at work ! Get caught in one club and you can kiss any decent clubs goodbye.

Don’t get drunk at work. Sure, it will help loosen you up but if something goes wrong in the back room or on stage you won’t be able to defend or protect yourself.

Never do “extras” meaning acts for the customer not allowed by your club rules. You can make money without them and you never know who is an undercover cop, if the manager is watching, etc. If you can’t make money by working clean, find a better club.

Never use baby oil on your body and don’t put on lotion before you go to work. It will make you slip and fall on stage, as well as making those that follow you do the same. You could get seriously injured. So no baby oil and moisturise the night before or a good many hours before working.

Things You’ll Need

6″ or more heels

2 outfits at least

Babywipes

Mints

Hairspray/gel

Somewhere to keep money

Self-confidence

Personality

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

So you want to know how to be a stripper? Talk like one! There are a lot of words and phrases we use that are confusing, until you know what they mean. This is a short glossary.

About the Money

Tip Out – How much we have to pay the housemum, DJ, Bouncers, Bartenders, Waitresses, Doorguys, etc., to work. Sometimes it’s a set fee (£10 minimum to housemum and DJ, £5 minimum to everyone else). Other times it’s a percentage system, which can get pretty weird (10% to the DJ and another 10% divided between everyone else, or upto 30% divided between everyone, but the manager gets a minimum of 3). In reality, most strippers have a disdain for rules.
We tip out the people who help us make money, or the people who could help us make money, really well. Everyone else we give the minimum, unless they can get us fired or we need them to stick up for us in a stripper power struggle (”she sucks cock for five quid!” “oh yeah?! she snorts coke off the toilet seat, I saw her!” A trusted waitress can be your best ally in these situations).

Stage/house fee – What we pay the club to walk in the door and work. Sometimes we pay it at the beginning of the night, sometimes at the end of the night. Sometimes it’s a flat fee, sometimes it’s different depending on what time you get there, or how many dances you sell.

Club cut – When the club takes a cut of your dance money. It’s normal for champagne rooms, but if you’re paying out for lap dances you’re getting screwed.

About the Customers

Club Regular - He comes in all the time. So much that he either doesn’t spend much money, or wants to play mind games for the money. Proceed with caution and don’t waste too much time.

My Regular – Usually means “back the fuck off, bitches.” But fuck that, customers are free agents and if he wants to spend his money on you, she can’t stop him. But you do (probably) have to continue to work with her for the rest of the night, or the week, or forever.

Her Regular – He’s a good customer. It would be rude to hustle the fuck out of him, but you know if he likes you he’ll spend.

PL – Pathetic loser. He doesn’t understand the boundaries of the club relationship. Maybe he thinks he’s dating his favourite dancer. Maybe he’s brought her a ring. He probably throws fits when she spends time with other customers. Possibly he’ll stalk her. These guys aren’t worth the money at all, in my opinion.

Ball Buster – He wants you to kick him in the balls. Hard. Yeah, really. (Ball buster actually should be used to refer to the stripper doing the ball busting, but we use it for customers anyways).

Lapdance Virgin – He’s about to have his whole world rocked. Like, wow. Naked girls that sit in your laps for £20/song. Amazing.

Captain Sav-a-Ho – He’s here to save us from the horrors of stripping. He thinks we seem really smart and he bets that we could even get a real job. You know, he just see’s so much potential in us he doesn’t understand why we’re degrading ourselves this way.

He’ll piss you off and bring your mood down, so just ignore him. Unless your in the mood to fuck with his head back.

White Knight – See above.

Hustling Techniques

Hit ‘n Run - “Hi, I’m Sam, and I want to dance for you now!” “Hi, I’m Sam, let’s go have some fun!” “Hi, I’m Sam

Wanna dance – See above.

The Talking Hustle – We’re, like, miniature soulmates. We’ll fall in pseudo love and spend hours in the champagne room eating strawberries and whipped cream and getting drunk on expensive champagne. You can’t do that on “wannadance.” Or not very often. I miss it.

“Fucked in the Champagne Room” – He said he wanted to be fucked in the champagne room, so she took his money and had him kicked out when he tried to touch her. Yep, he got fucked. Ladies, please refrain from this. It’s not cool. Unless he really, really, really deserves it.

Hard Hustle – You know, like that time you were practically forced to buy the weird carpet cleaner at the market. Except it’s a lapdance.

Strippers

Lifer – This is our career. We are not doing this to put ourselves through school, save up a deposit for a house, or support our volunteer work until we can get a great job. We don’t want a real job.

Subsistence Strippers – You see them once a month, crying in the dressing room because the rent is due tomorrow and they haven’t made it yet tonight. They mysteriously manage to subsist on nothing in between nights they work for their rent and car payment.

Super Stripper – She’s this redhead with huge boobs and a tiny waist that can go anywhere and totally bank. Plus she’s always at work on time, always works every day, and is super smart.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

The number one secret to having fun and making lots of money being a dancer is location. If you ain’t happy, keep movin!

These are some of the most important factors:

1) Money. The more money there is in a club, the more bullshit rules and such I’m willing to put up with (this is otherwise articulated as the bullshit to money ratio).

2) The Vibe. If you’re not happy, you’re not gonna make money, or the money that you do make won’t be worth it. It doesn’t matter if it’s the customers, the managment, the rules, or whatever that’s rubbing you the wrong way, just move on.

3) Risk of being arrested. Yep, the rich in suits legislate what we can do with our bodies. Crazy, huh? In some cities/boroughs, you can be arrested for little things like being within 6 feet of a customer or touching your own breasts. The crazier the rules, the faster the club declines towards whorehousedom. Luckily in the UK we dont have to many crazy councils but just look at the clubs in london for instance Stringfellows one of the largest lap dancing clubs the girls have to keep a g-string on ! The US is the craziest though for example, in Houston a girl can get arrested for prostitution for just being within six feet (I think?) of a customer. She figures, gee, I can give a blow job for five times the money and the same risk of arrest and prostitution charge. So you have that, and when they bust a club they just come in and arrest everyone. In more rational places, the club is held responsible for your behaviour.

4) Rules. Conversely, you don’t want a big bouncer standing over you with a flash light making sure you don’t break the law and fining you for the smallest infraction and scaring your customers off. There should be a happy medium, like cameras in the VIP room, or a system of mirrors or curtains so that the customer isn’t freaked out. If the customer breaks a rule, like touching you, the club should come down on the customer, not you. If there are a ton of rules about changing before every set, wearing a certain type of gown, solid shoes, selling however many drinks a night, whatever… well, some of those things you do anyway or they don’t really bother you (I mean, a rule like “no trainers stage” isn’t hard to follow), but if they’re bothering you and it’s putting your bullshit to money ratio outta wack, just move on.

5) Contact. For some people this might be higher up on the list… but for me this is about where it goes. In some clubs you can’t touch the customer at all and do table dances standing in front of them. In other clubs you can touch them for a few seconds at a time, or you can touch them only in certain areas. At some clubs you can touch them as much as you want, but they can’t touch you. Or they can touch your arms and outer thighs, or they can touch whatever you allow. This goes right up there with the vibe… if you ain’t comfortable with it, move on! Don’t be afraid to have different boundaries with different customers, or to have much stricter boundaries than the norm at your club.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

I had the following conversation at work the other night with a 30-something dancer who rejects normal stripper-wear for short skirts and jumpers the primark. This has always puzzled me because she sells stripper clothes, so I know she knows how to get them.

Her: I wish the stuff I sell would look good on me, but it never does.
Me: Why not? You’re in good shape, I’m sure it would look better on you than that jumper
Her: I know. Customers can never tell that I work here.
Me: Well you’ve got that long platinum hair and bright pink lipstick, why don’t you wear one of those pink outfits you’ve got for sale? You could totally pull off the barbie look.
Her: But I don’t look like barbie. I’m too old to look like barbie.
Me: Look, customers see what you project.
Her: Huh. You know, you’ve got this crazy stage presence, all the time guys that I’m sitting with look up and say how sexy you look on stage.
Me: See? When I project sexy you don’t notice my pudginess or pale skin or flat ass, cause I’m projecting sexy and that’s what you see.
Her: I always thought you just really liked dancing.
Me: Um, I do, and I also project sexiness so I make lots of money.

This is when I realised: beyond stripping 101 there really isn’t a set formula for making money. Every stripper, every club, and every customer is different.

When projecting your image, think about the details: outfit, jewellery, make up, and the way you carry yourself. Beyond that, I don’t obsess.

Another major element to being happy and making loads of cash is to not engage in situations that make you unhappy. I know it sounds so simple, but very often we don’t even realise that a person or place is bothering us until we’re really really bothered. So tune in and pay attention to yourself. If you’re not happy, leave. Never work at a club you can’t leave, and never feel obligated to sit with a customer you don’t like.

Just in the last month, I have stopped dealing with customers that I didn’t like at all. I used to walk away from them only if they actively offended me or were rude. Now I excuse myself even if they offend me in tiny, barely noticeable ways or if I just don’t click with them. Guess what? My income has gone up even more. Even in a really slow club, where you’d think I shouldn’t turn away any paying customer. I just have that much more positive energy for the customers that I enjoy, and they seem to be compensating me accordingly. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but so far it’s holding true for me.

If you’re a new dancer, you’re probably spending too much time talking to the customers for free. I can’t say this enough: if you aren’t getting paid after sitting with them for 1-2 songs in a busy club or 2-3 songs in a slow club, move the fuck on. There are two reasons that this usually happens – either you’re not building rapport quickly, or you don’t feel confident enough to close the sale.

Building rapport is usually easy. Smile, have lots of happy energy, and find something that you have in common. It can be as small as wanting to go where they went on holiday summer or a favourite song, or as big as a shared profession. Whatever it is, find it, talk about it, get them talking about it, smile, touch their leg or arm, and ask for a dance. If it hasn’t happened after a couple songs ask for a dance anyway s. Sometimes they will surprise you and say yes, and if they say no you can move on to a paying customer.

If confidence is the problem, you just need to do it anyway. Take any opportunity. If they say you’re pretty, tell them you’re even prettier when you’re dancing for them. Hell, take any chance you get to get a word in edgewise to tell them you want to dance for them right NOW. The more you do it, the more confidence you’ll have, and the more natural it will seem.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

I grew up with a pretty fucked idea of feminine attractiveness. You know, pretty women are needy women. They’re damsels in distress, like Cinderella and Rapunzel. They’re damaged, like the women in Tori Amos songs, or the Suicide Girls. That’s what makes them so fascinating and addictive, right?

When I started dancing, this was what I tried to portray. I was the fucked up victim. I hated myself. I needed men to save me.

And it sold. I almost sold myself on it, and that was fucked up enough to make me stop dancing for a while.

Eventually I was getting really tired of playing the victim. It was the “you’re beautiful” thing that got to me the most, eventually. You know, where they try to convince you how beautiful you are, as if it goes without saying that you hate yourself and think you’re ugly. But of course they’d think that, that’s the role I was playing.

So I decided to start nipping that in the bud. I figured confidence wasn’t so sexy and probably my earnings would suffer, but I was going to do it anyways. I was nervous when I started. They’d say I was beautiful and I’d say “thanks, I was born that way,” or just, “yeah, I know,” followed by a little giggle so they’d think I was halfway joking.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  1 Comment »

Now you’ve worked a couple nights and you’re starting to get comfy with the club and dancing naked. But the more comfortable you get the more you see how much you have to learn. You want to sell more dances, you want to learn to sell VIP’s, and you still can’t figure out what to say when they ask what your boyfriend thinks of you doing this.

Let’s talk about making money. Now that you’ve used that hit and run hustle for a few nights, I bet you’re starting to get a better feel for who has money. Soon you’ll be able to smell it on them. But now that you know how to do a basic hustle, start choosing your targets better and putting a little more into it. Look for fat, middle aged guys wearing comfy shoes and a nice watch. Approach slowly, and flirt with your eyes. While you’re talking to him keep that strong, sexy eye contact, puff your lips out a little, and run a hand softly up and down your leg or your other arm. When you know he’ll say yes run a couple fingers lightly up his arm or thigh tell him how much you’d love to dance for him right now.

Once you’ve got him back there, don’t let him go. Up sell him. After your lap dance say “I would have so much more fun in the VIP/Champagne Room/whatever with you. It’s much more intimate, and we don’t have to worry about time and bouncers. Let’s go.” If your club doesn’t have anything to up sell, don’t worry, just keep selling him more dances.

While you’re making all that money, be sure to save some. Someday you’ll be too old to dance, or maybe you’ll start hating it, or maybe you’ll break your knee and not be able to work. What then? Do you want to be stuck as a wage slave for the rest of your life, wistfully remembering the days when you made a full day’s worth of minimum wage in two songs? You owe it to your future self to save some money now. There are two Hobo Stripper Cash Stashing Formulas. If you have debt you’ll use the first, which goes like this: at the end of the night divide your money up into three equal piles. One pile is for long term investment and retirement, one pile goes towards your debt, and one pile is for living on right now. If you have no debt, use the second Stripper Cash Stashing Formula: two equal piles, one for retirement and one for living on. Don’t worry; you’ll still have plenty of money to live on, even if you only work intermittently like me.

Let’s talk about boundaries. Like I said before, you probably need to start out with very clear cut, set in stone boundaries. Know what you will do and what you won’t do, and don’t do anything that makes you uncomfortable. Think about these things. How do you feel about a guy sucking on your toes for an extra hundred bucks? Are you willing to let them play at almost touching your boobs in the Champagne Room? Maybe you work in an air dance club with no Champagne Room and you don’t need to consider these things, but there are other things to be clear about. Will you sit with a guy for free and let him tell you what you should be doing with your life? Will you talk about loving getting ass fucked to keep a guy in the Champagne Room for another hour?

Boundaries are not what happen when you say no. Boundaries are your own knowledge of yourself, of where you end and other people begin. In a strip club you have total control, if you take it and even if you don’t. If you do something that traumatizes you, you are the only person you have to blame. Don’t abuse your own sexuality. If your like most women in our culture you probably need to do some work on boundaries, which means you need to inhabit yourself very fully and very consciously. Exercise is good for this. Touching yourself is good for this, not just masturbation but consciously touching, stroking, and massaging your whole body. When you consider a new situation or a new person, check in with your whole body. How does your cunt feel about it? Is your tummy protesting? Make sure you know exactly how you feel about it. Practice. It’s important.

Then there’s your stripper image. There are archetypes of sexuality. Cat woman, the nurturer, warrior princess, blond haired Barbie, sexual priestess, retro pin-up girl, pale dark haired beauty, etc. Pick one, or a couple, that suits you. Try to shape your outfits and make-up around that archetype, and really tap into it when you work. It makes a difference.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

In the long term there’s a lot of stuff you’ll want to know about selling psychology, make-up, outfits, money management, etc. But your first night you might as well just jump in – if you knew that stuff now you wouldn’t really have the schema to integrate it into anyways. For now you just need to know how to make some money and avoid drama. Remember, these things vary a lot from club to club, so this is very general.

You’re probably really nervous about stage dancing, but in most places stage is the least important part . All you need to do on stage is move slowly and confidently (comes back to confidence again). Make eye contact with the customers and make sure you know what the tipping customs for your club are so that you can maximise your tips

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s focus on the important parts.

The important thing you’ll need as a lap dancer is the ability to set and enforce boundaries. If you can’t do this, don’t even think of being a stripper (on the other hand, if you’re a concious learner, stripping will teach you boundaries like nothing else can). Understand that people are often going to want more from you than you want to give them. You also need to understand that wanting to have sex with you isn’t a predatory thing, it’s just a want. If you feel like you’ve been assaulted every time someone wants to have sex with you you are going to be totally traumatised by dancing. Most of the time they’re asking because other girls at your club or a club they’ve been to have offered sex or they’ve read about it on the internet, or because hope springs eternal and you are naked in their lap. Usually you say no and that’s the end of it. But sometimes (and again, this varies regionally) they’ll keep pressing or try to manipulate you.

As a new dancer, I recommend that you find out what your club rules are (for example: no touching during lap dances, outer thigh/back touching only during champagne rooms) and give a long thought to your personal boundaries. Decide exactly what you will and won’t do, and then stick to that. Once you’ve been dancing for a few months you can have more flexible boundaries. For example, you might dance for a sweet guy whose hand’s you really wouldn’t mind on your boobs, and he might offer you an extra hundred to let him touch your boobs. Twenty minutes later you might be dancing for a rude, grabby guy who demands to grab your boobs or offers you a good tip. These waters can be tricky, so unless you’re very in touch with yourself and confident just set some static boundaries and stick with them for a long time.

The number two most important skill you’ll need is selling. In most clubs you won’t any money on stage. It all comes from lap dances (at the beginning of the night, ask the housemom/manager/nice girl in the dressing room if someone can show you how to do a lapdance). This is why there are so many really incredible performers who make hardly any money. You’ll want to work the entire room. Unless it’s really slow, do not sit with one guy for more than one or two songs. Sit down and introduce yourself, then ask what they’ve done that day, if they’ve been here before, where they’re from, what they do for fun, etc. Try to keep it light and look for a topic that’ll allow you to develop some rapport. After a minute or two, bring the conversation back to the dance. Don’t say, “Do you want a dance.” Say, “I’m ready to dance for you now” or, “Let’s go play.” A confident statement, not an open ended question.

If it’s really busy, don’t even bother sitting down to talk to them. You can use a total hit and run hustle. Just say, “Hi, I’m and I want to play with you in the VIP/private room.” Yes = “lets go.” No = NEXT! “Hi, I’m let’s go play in the VIP.”Once you’ve got them back to the lapdance/VIP area, or if you’re doing the lapdance right there where they’ve been sitting, sit down and cross your legs over theirs sexily and say, “it’s £xx, and we’ll wait for the next song, okay?” If that doesn’t prompt them to pay you, tell them you need to collect first, then smile and add “business before pleasure.” A lot of guys will resist paying first, but as a new dancer you need to get your money up front most of the time at least for the first few days. A lot of times if they are resistant to paying first I’ll tell them that I’m throwing in the rest of the current song for free, and as soon as they pay me we can get started.Whatever the contact norms are at your club, start out slow. Make lots of eye contact, arch your back and make sexy faces, play with their hair at the back of their neck, drag your fingernails along their arm or chest, that kind of thing. Take your clothes off slowly and gracefully, and work up to the more intense parts of the dance. At the end of the song you should be in your sexiest position. Don’t stop dancing. Lean into their ear and whisper, “You don’t want me to stop, do you?” Of course they don’t. If they say yes, try again. It’s a lot easier to sell this guy a second and third and fourth dance than to go find an entirely new guy. Say things like, “I’m not done with you yet.” “I was just getting started.” “I don’t want to stop now.” etc. When he paid you for your first dance you got a peek in his wallet, so you know how much more he can afford. Wait and charge him at the end, or every five dances.

Then repeat, over and over and over again. Try to sell around 20 dances a night, 10 in a slow club.

Then there are random little things you’ll need to know.

The Drink Hustle: Some clubs want you to sell drinks. Occasionally you get a drink commission, occasionally there is a drink quota, and occasionally they don’t give a shit at all. If they want you to sell drinks, just talk to the bartender and ask her to fake yours (a great one is a sea breeze – sprite instead of vodka). You don’t need to get drunk at work and especially not on your first night. If you find yourself having to down a bottle of Champagne, take small sips and keep refilling your customers glass. Dump yours in the ice bucket when he’s not looking, or if you hold your glass at an angle over the ice bucket with the stem down in the bucket a little ways and overfill the spillage won’t be noticable. It sucks to be dishonest, but you really can’t have 20-30 mixed drinks a night, it’s just not healthy.

Customers: Sometimes they’ll be great, and sometimes they’ll be awful. Either way take it for what it is in the moment and then leave it behind. I swear I meet my soulmate at least four or five times a night, but I’ve learned not to take it seriously. Likewise, I mostly ignore the assholes, too.

House/Stage fee: Ask if your first night is free, but expect to pay a flat fee or a percentage of dances at the end of the night.

Eating: Bring some trail mix or a protein bar or whatever you’re inclined to eat in the middle of the night. Don’t think you won’t be hungry, dancing will make you ravenous.

Talking to other strippers: Just say no to drama! Be pleasant, be superficial, be a little aloof so they know you can’t be fucked with, and get your ass out of the dressing room and start making money.

Leaving: Make sure a bouncer walks you out to your car. Pay attention so you’ll know if you’re being followed.

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »

I made just over £300 on my fourth night working.
That’s the most I’d made so far, and as you can imagine, I was quite happy with that! It’s great having money just sitting around, waiting to be spent.

I think I’m starting to have “regulars” who come in to see me now. This one guy in particular has been my main tipper and the bulk of my money comes from him. He’s such an easy guy and never tries to touch me, and he’s not bad looking either. I’m always happy when he’s in the club because I know I’m going to make some money.

I still can’t work the pole as most strippers do. One of the girls have showed me a few moves but I’ve been too scared to try them when I’m preforming for fear of looking like a complete tool. And since practising those moves, my muscles have been aching. I don’t know if I’m ever going to feel normal again. Over time I’m guessing I will, but for now I have to put up with a sore body every day. I’m trying to treat myself well, I’ll apply a foot balm each night and dry brush my body and moisturise and all that shit. The only thing I’m lacking on is the sleep. It’s hard to find the time to sleep when I’m working at nights and I have a child to care for in the day. I have a feeling that working in a smokey environment isn’t too good for my health either but since the smoking ban came in its much better, my skin no longer appears dull and my hair hopefully doesn’t reek all the time now.

David’s been so good to me. He’s happy that I’m making money and I guess he’s now proud that it’s money I’m earning and not just a handout from the government. He doesn’t seem to be getting jealous which I think is a little odd, but there’s no friction between us because of my job so I’m happy! You can’t argue with that.

On the nights that I have work, I think to myself “Argh, not this again…” I can’t decide whether I like stripping or not. I dread the thought of getting ready in the changing rooms with the other girls, I hate thinking that I’m going to have to talk to men I don’t even know who may possibly reject me because they’d rather have a dance with a thinner girl. I loathe the thought that I’ll be on stage and no one will tip me. But when I think about taking home the money I make, I get excited and I’m ready to dance up a storm. Each night I think to myself “tonight could be the night I make a thousand”. And I’ll go to work with a smile on my face.

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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Chloe  |  No Comments »