jack said:
I gotta cut you off at the knees here. Most strip clubs are run by some sort of organized crime dealies there. You only make "more money" dancing if you perform "certain services" otherwise you're a wage slave any way you look at it. The idea that there are "independent" strippers is bullshit. They own you one way or the other.
Actually, in Canada anyways...you're right and you're wrong.
You're right about the organized crime involvement, some places more than others...but its usually always a presence. <--It's a presence with a lot of "shady" money making operations (Casinos? hello?)
But here, the girls that perform "certain services" do not make more money. There are two agencies that rep most of the strippers in BC, there are some girls that just don't make the cut with regards to looks...and well, I guess just looks. Anyways, they get very little...if any, stage time. So, they take all that time (for whatever reason...I mean, why wouldn't you just get another job?) to perform "certain services". <--They make less than feature dancers do and they do it anyways.
So sure, here you are required to have agency representation to basically guarantee you any work...and if not, you are adopted as an in-house dancer at a certain club...and then you're paying house fees. <--The independence factor isn't there, its with hours worked, when you come in, when you go home, and all that jazz. It's great to poke fun at the stereotypical single mom stripper...but it makes sense, doesn't it?
And they aren't wage slaves either...its all how good your hustle is. Most girls will agree that the vast majority of their money made (in most cases) isn't on stage doing sets...its in the private rooms doing VIPs. <--If you can hustle, you'll bank...if you can't, you'll earn negative dollars after paying out your house fees. That's just the way it works.
