While it is true that the internet has made strip clubs less popular than they once were i also put the blame on strip club owners themselves by jacking up the prices over the years. Drinks are overpriced, dances are overpriced, the various fees (entry fee, coat-check fee, doorman tip, etc) are a big turn-off and people who have sampled the off-shore clubs of the past where extras were the norm got turned off by all the greed involved with the more popular mainstream strip clubs of the past such as Chez Pare, Wanda's, Club Super Sex, Club Downtown, Les Amazones, etc.
About a dozen years ago i was with a buddy of mine at Wanda's (which at one time was a favorite of mine) and a hottie came by to talk to me at the videopoker machine. She asked me if i felt like going to sit at a table where we could chat. I bought her a drink. And another. She danced for me a couple of times. About an hour later my buddy told me we should head out. So i asked the girl how much i owed her and she said about $120. Holy fuck!!!!!! I was shocked!!!! I had to borrow money from my buddy who was chuckling and shaking his head. As we headed out i was pretty pissed off and he asked me what my problem was. I replied "she fucked me!!" He told me she did not and actually gave me a deal. He then asked me if i knew that the meter was running while she was sitting down and chatting with me. I told him i did not and it was the first time i had ever heard of that. "Well i suppose you haven't been to a strip club in a while", he replied. I had not and have pretty much crossed out strip clubs from my list over the past dozen years or so. It's now nothing but a big cash grab. It probably always was in a way, but it wasn't as blatantly obvious has it is today and has been over the past decade.
