How to own & run a strip club

Let's go! This blog is about starting and running a strip club. It is designed to provide information for people who may be interested in opening or running a strip club but who haven't been able to find out any information about how to. Such information is hard to find. You could talk to the owners and managers of local clubs, but they aren't interested in having any more competition. Dancers and customers are knowlegeable about their ends of the business, but they don't have the big picture. A strip club is an ecosystem, and you wouldn't ask a turtle how a pond works. This blog is not a porno site. It is not designed to get your rocks off. Neither are strip clubs. Strip clubs are designed to separate customers from their money safely, quickly, efficiently, and legally. People talk about strip clubs as dens of inquity or dens of therapy but they are busineses, similar to and different from other businesses. Having said that, if you are strictly interested in making money, there may be easier, faster, and more profitable ways to do so. The politics and power struggles involved in a strip club as as intense and Machiavellian as in the cloakroom of the U.S. Senate. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the dressing room. A Navy veteran friend of mine ran a whorehouse in Thailand after the Vietnam War. The perks are nice, but sex work is not all that it's cracked up to be. As a general rule of thumb, it is a good idea to do something you enjoy, because if you wind up not making any money, at least you will have had fun. There is a school of thought in small business which says that you should get into whatever is hot at the time. This usually translate into a backyard of smelly, bad-tempered llamas that you couldn't get rid of at a dog food factory. Which is not to say that strippers can't be bad-tempered but the smart ones don't smell at all because that results in husbands having to explain to wives that residue of Chanel No. 9 - unless the dancer is a sadist, of which there are plenty of those too. After all, dancers are in the business of controlling men, and those that can't or won't need to become librarians, albeit extremely attractive librarians. For more on controlling men at a strip club, go to stripper power. For more illumination on the acquisition of money as a goal, see "The Seven Laws of Money" by Michael Phillips.