That's exactly the reason why I have rarely frequented strip joints. It's just too expensive. The first paragraph of my novel takes place in a strip club.
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She wasn't like the other girls. They'd approach with their sexy or their sweet, their vulnerable or their confident. They all had their ways of suggesting that it was something just a little more than fee for service, and some, you could tell, had a natural talent for making every emotion seem real. Ian didn't care. He tipped all the girls well at the stage, and that soothed the ones he never chose, which was almost all of them. He wasn't concerned with the intellectual knowledge that for the most part, the dancers had little but contempt for the patrons. He laughed to himself. "Patrons."
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Hetero males have a fascination with female bodies. Having been a nudist, and especially having worked at a nudist resort, I've seen naked women of all shapes, sizes, and ages, and it wasn't erotic, but strip clubs are about eroticism. There's a reason it's called strip *tease*. It's not mere nudity, but sexual entertainment. The male brain is wired for seeking out sexual novelty, and there's always an interplay between ethical decency and fantasy that crosses ethical lines. It's actions that matter. Folks who view cads like Weinstein and even Epstein as perverts miss the point. They are victimizers, selfish assholes who have no regard for the humanity of their victims. The only difference between them and others who have no regard for the humanity of their victims is that the nature of their exploitation was sexual. We need to extend our horror at terrorizing and dehumanizing innocents to all persons, regardless of the flavor of their motives, but sex sells, and puritanism is part of our shared culture. Consensuality should ideally be the norm in all human personal interactions, and when folks don't exhibit behavior consistent with having a conscience, the collective should exact punishments.
Marx was wrong. Nurture has its limits. Human nature is what it is, and all we can realistically hope to do is develop social norms that reward ethical behavior more than exploitation.
--Bryan