Should Extras Be Allowed in The Strip Club?
When stripping stops just being stripping
One of the less openly discussed problems in strip clubs is “extras” — sexual acts in addition to dancing. They are one of those things that I am adamant should not happen in a strip club, but unfortunately they do.
I have avoided writing in depth about it myself for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the more casually it is talked about, the more normalized it starts to sound, and the more customers think of it as naturally available. I also think it drags the occupation further into the mud. For dancers who work hard to keep clear boundaries and treat stripping as performance, sales, and dancing, it cheapens the work. Stripping already carries enough assumptions without adding fuel to the idea that every dancer is for sale if the price is right.
But — extras do happen. Often times of economic instability are a pre-cursor. Times are tough and we are all needing to earn an income and some girls start expanding their boundaries. New dancers can arrive and either don’t understand the rules or don’t care.
