[ICTChris]

Lapdancing clubs to decline

Interesting article on the BBC website about the reduction in the number of lapdancing clubs, following changes to licensing legislation. What do P&Bers think about these establishments? My limited experience of them is that they are pretty dispiriting and grim places. I went to one on a stag night and it was trying to go for the high-class, 007 sort of vibe but was essentially black lassies in clear heels talking to fat businessmen. I really couldn't work out what they were talking about - what do you chat to a stripper about for half an hour?

Edinburgh has a wide selection of these places, mostly along Lothian Road and the 'pubic triangle' so they are easy enough to avoid (or to find!). I do appreciate that there's a place for a strip bar but I'm not sure it would be great if one opened up in a more residential area, given the clientele it would attract, although the worst boozers in Edinburgh are not lapdancing bars.

Any P&Bers frequent attendees of lapdancing emporiums or even worked as a lapdancer?

Edited to add: Of course, the above article is talking about laws in England and Wales. not sure if there's likely to be a clampdown in Scotland.

This post has been edited by ICTChris: 08 February 2012 - 19:37

[drs]

I've never been and anyone you have seen who looks like me in one has in fact been my twin brother.

[StandFree03]

Anyone remember that absolute fanny Falkirk supporter who was obsessed with strippers and working out? I think there was a few of them actually.

[ICTChris]

StandFree03, on 08 February 2012 - 19:57, said:

Anyone remember that absolute fanny Falkirk supporter who was obsessed with strippers and working out? I think there was a few of them actually.

The Tommy Gilmour bus? A creepy bunch. I thought of them actually, when reading parts of that Unilad website.

[Gaz]

WE'VE GOT JIMMY JIMMY JIMMY JIMMY GILMOUR ON THE WING ON THE WING

[Gaz]

It wasn't me, by the way (nor have I ever been on said bus).

[ICTChris]

Lets get this back on topic. Has any P&Ber ever got a 'special' in the back room?

[MTJ]

I wouldn't even go to one on a stag night. The whole idea of going to a strip club and sitting there like an absolute nonce makes me cringe. Why go to a strip club and pay through the nose to see some sleezy burds tits, which she might be using to pay for her skag addiction, when you could get your hole for nothing at a nightclub instead?

[Mak]

ICTChris, on 08 February 2012 - 19:36, said:

...My limited experience of them is that they are pretty dispiriting and grim places...

Pretty much this. I've been to a lapdancing club exactly once in my life and don't think I've ever found anywhere or anything so utterly depressing.

[Gaz]

I went to one for a mate's stag do a few years ago. It was a bit shit and overpriced. Would have rather went and played golf or something.

True story: in this strip club, two (pretty hot, admittedly) strippers approached our crowd and said that for twenty quid each we could have a private show with the two of them. I wasn't too keen, but didn't want to seem like a bit of a knob so paid my twenty quid to sit in a room with eleven other guys watching two naked chicks get it on with each other (being in a room with eleven other guys kinda took the sheen off of it a bit).

Anyway, one of my mates, who's a bit under the thumb, text his wife back home to ask if he could go into the private show no idea what reply he got but it couldn't have been a favourable one, as not only did he not come into the private room but he left the strip club and went to a nearby pub by himself to wait on us leaving

[ICTChris]

My brother went to a lapdancing club on a stag night once and when they got there it was empty apart from one guy - my brothers boss!

[Cliche Guevara]

Would it have been too much to ask for a tabloidy topic title such as:

The Writhe and Fall of Lapdancing clubs

f**k sake.

[ICTChris]

Cliche Guevara, on 08 February 2012 - 20:22, said:

Would it have been too much to ask for a tabloidy topic title such as:

The Writhe and Fall of Lapdancing clubs

f**k sake.

Sorry.

[Thundermonkey]

Been on 3 occasions. 2nd time there was a horror show working the pole with a tampon string hanging out. Last time a guy on our stag got a private lapdance and discovered what he thought was fake tan rubbed on his shirt was in fact a skidmark. Both in the Burke and Hare, a bastion of hygiene.

[pub car king]

Been to a couple and guys I was with were throwing cash at the girls I just didn't really get it would rather go to the pub.

[ICTChris]

Guardian article by the woman who was quoted in the BBC piece

[heedthebaa]

Been twice, first time I got thrown out for taking a picture of my son on stage,tied up with cream on his bollox,second time I got thrown out for going behind the bar to get my own bottle of magners because they were too slow. I won't be back, they're just not for me

[Jimmy85]

Can't beat a set of boobs.

[welshbairn]

I used to work near Old Street in London, and at that time every pub in the area had lunchtime strippers.They were so prevalent that after a while you'd ignore them and just get on with your pint and lunch, unless they were a bit special and you might bung a pound in the pot. There was always a group of suits who would spend the whole time standing near the stage and staring silently at the girls in a bit of a creepy way. The thing I liked was the front seats were reserved for pensioners who got the full attention of the girls, and were given the full whiff of Mother Nature..

[ICTChris]

welshbairn, on 08 February 2012 - 20:54, said:

I used to work near Old Street in London, and at that time every pub in the area had lunchtime strippers.

One of the places in Edinburgh used to do a lunchtime special of soup, roll and a lapdance for £15.

[Granny Danger]

heedthebaa, on 08 February 2012 - 20:52, said:

Been twice, first time I got thrown out for taking a picture of my son on stage,tied up with cream on his bollox,second time I got thrown out for going behind the bar to get my own bottle of magners because they were too slow. I won't be back, as I have a blanket ban.

Sorted.

[MTJ]

heedthebaa, on 08 February 2012 - 20:52, said:

Been twice, first time I got thrown out for taking a picture of my son on stage,tied up with cream on his bollox

Is that what normally happens in your basement, Josef?

[heedthebaa]

MTJ, on 08 February 2012 - 20:59, said:

Is that what normally happens in your basement, Josef?

Only at weekends
my other son is organising his stag for Amsterdam, should be a hoot

[Patrick Bateman]

Only been to one once, a stag do in Glasgow. Can't say I enjoyed it much. In fact, it was somewhat depressing. We all chipped in for the stag to get dragged up onto the stage to get tied up and interfered with by two young ladies.

It certainly wouldn't be my choice for a great night out.

This post has been edited by Patrick Bateman: 08 February 2012 - 21:08

[MTJ]

heedthebaa, on 08 February 2012 - 21:05, said:

Only at weekends
my other son is organising his stag for Amsterdam, should be a hoot

I'm just back from one in Belfast this weekend. Don't go there, its rubbish for nightlife.