Stripped by Barton Bernadette;

Author:Barton, Bernadette;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: SOC026000 Social Science / Sociology / General
Publisher: New York University Press

Female Customers

I interviewed Charlotte on a cold afternoon in November in her cluttered office at Red Key. Having worked many positions in strip clubs—dancer, waitress, bartender, day manager and, at the time of the interview, general manager—over the past thirteen years, Charlotte shared one of the biggest changes she’s observed in the industry: “Now, on a weekend night, I would be willing to bet at any given time that up to 40 percent of my clientele is female. They’re coming in alone. They’re not coming with boyfriends. They’re coming in groups. It’s bizarre, and it’s not just lesbians. It’s the eighteen-year-old thing to do, now! ‘Let’s go to the strip club!’” Wes, manager of Pearls, concurred, “You get a lot more female customers than you used to. That goes back to going to strip clubs is the cool thing to do. Groups of girls come out together. Bachelorette parties, things like that.”19

That strip bars may be viewed by some as “cool” now suggests a complicated set of dynamics at play. These include raunch culture and internet pornography accustoming consumers to naked and nearly naked female bodies, and rap music glamorizing the sex industry as a place where much money can be made even while rap lyrics describe actual exotic dancers in very degrading terms. Rap and hip hop music play more frequently in strip bars these days and many of the songs have very misogynist lyrics. Charlotte shared, “I think I have banned officially almost every 2 Chainz song ever made.” Wes explained that he limits rap and hip hop music at Pearls “to control the crowd.” One example of a 2 Chainz song that Sandy described as “most popular and typical of songs that play” is “Bandz a Make Her Dance” by Juicy J, featuring 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne. Lyrics include:

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