What is it like to be an exotic dancer?

Well to be perfectly honest with you will have all the fame and no glory. We are treated like common criminals and at the same time as if we could somehow pull a million dollars out our butts.

Goodmorning 

My day starts off around 10:00 am. I get dressed, shower and prepare my work bag( high heals, makeup, hair supplies, fem. products ..etc..). I leave the house around 11:00 am to be at work by 11:30 am.  Depending on how much the bartender likes you determines if you can show up late or not. If you are not considered "top girl" then you may be fined as much as $10 showing up as little as 10 minutes late. 

Off to work  

 I get into a cab and usually when they find out I am going to a strip club try to over charge me.I arrive around 11:30 am to what is called the block(known for the strip/block of other gentlemen's clubs). When you arrive that early you most likely have to wait for the bartender to show up to let you in. Better late then never.

When I arrive the number of girls will determine how many times/sets you will dance that day for. The more girls the less you dance and Visa verse.

The basics 

From the moment you get dressed till 8:00 pm you don't leave at all. There is no such thing as a break, though you work for 8 hours straight. The only way you're entitled to a break is if you work a double which is 15 hours. If you need something(for example; food, tampons,makeup, snacks) then you have to trust and pay what is called a runner with your money to go out and retrieve it for you, which particularly consist of crack heads , coke heads, heroin atticks, etc.  Which is no shocker that a lot of times we don't get anything but our money stolen. We usually have to pay them a dollar a block that they have to travel to for each run.

Lets start 

The I am usually dressed by 12:30 pm and ready to dance. They give you $5.00 to put into the jukebox to start you off which eventually comes out of your pay at the end of the night.

When you dance you must pay $2 per song and dance to between 2 -3 songs per set. If there is from 1-5 girls you will be dancing for 3 songs. Anything more than 5 will be 2 songs. If you have more than 15 girls there will be 2 girls on stage at once for 2 songs.

A typical customer.

Customers may or may not show up for the first 2-3 hours that we are there. There have even been days (snow, game, raining) that we have not had one customer the whole shift. Not one beet sold in the bar.

Customers all range from happy go lucky to rude and crude, rich and wealthy to poor and unwealthy, white to black, business to street thug , single, married, swingers.

Most common customer is the middle class married man. Then there is the old fashioned fetish guy. The one that's the weirdo. We always have at least one a day. The main one is a guy who pays girls to fall asleep for him. I have sat with him a few times. Its rumored that he is a mortician and gets off on dead people. He is also a known hermaphrodite who paste his breast down. Then we have the guy who comes in and likes his nipples to be pinched. he pays good money but sometimes its hard to bring yourself to do things like that. We also get one who pays you to defecate on him but few girls will do it so he only comes every now and again.

The way things work

At 8 after you have made or not made your drinks it is time to be paid. You get dressed and wait for the bartender to go down the list, figure numbers, and call your name. Your pay will be determined by a number of things. 1. How many drinks/lap dances you have made:  you make $5 per $25.00 drink sold. lap dances are as varies $60, $80, and $100 which pays out $10,$15 and $20. 2. Whats your base pay: you make a base pay after you sell at least one drink. Most girls have a base pay of 65.00. 3. How many deductions/fines you have from your shift: you start off with -$15.00 ( $5 for the jukebox, $5 for the bartender tip and $5 for the bouncer/doorman tip) then they take out for being late, borrowing money, penalties etc.

At the end of the day if you can talk and make at least 5 $25 drinks ($100) you will walk out with $75.00. On an average a great dancer sells at least only 4 drinks a day. A great day is around 8-30 drinks. The record amount of drinks is I believe 180 which hasn't happened in over 2 years. We have a great day around once every week or two.

At the end of the day we go home and do it all over again.