Strip clubs closing due to lack of demand across Canada, says industry insider

Boy, first pot is threatening to be legalized with tons of legally grown pot entering the system already, now strip clubs going the way of the dinosaur. What are the HA going to do for funds?

Hard to compete with free porn on the internet.

Did Raydan run out of loonies?

Is that what a lap dance is worth, out there?

Crazy people?

Naw, you throw the loonies. You can win posters and shit if your aim is good. As for lapdances, I've always assumed Ray gets em for free. Throws a little gallic charm at the girls and voila!

I've been in strip clubs but I've never actually had a lap dance... except the occasional GF for shits and giggles.

You're not missing much. Awkward and/or frustrating is about all they are. The only lapdance I've ever really enjoyed was when my wife got drunk and got one in vegas.

Ridiculous cover charges, drinks priced high beyond reason, too noisy, places owned by gangsters, shitty music, too many psychos in the crowd, and all the free porn you need on the computer back home. Oh, well, no great loss.

That's the puritanical Alberta version, where you're not allowed to touch or come near the dancer. Here in Ontario and Quebec a spectator can go on stage to get a $5 dry hump from a naked dancer infront of the entire crowd. And then of course theres the VIP room for a private dance if you REALLY want to waste your money.

It's probably been 10 years since I went to a strip club and I don't/won't miss them one bit.

Had their place in the old days (70s) of beer barns with terry-towel tablecloths so dull something had to be done to bring you in.
We went to one about 5 years ago, the old College place in New West. From grungy shithole that was fun, to BS chrome & mirrors. Trying to imply it and the peelers had some class? Bah!
The other half wondered how anyone can get off on watching girls showering with milk. Had to explain it used to be a lively biker bar where you'd hoot and holler and try to catch the ping pong balls Mitzi shot out into the audience.

I remember sitting No.5 Orange in Vancouver when the shower shows first started. About six of us put towels on our heads and the(or was it the Drake) stripper had trouble doing her show because she was laughing to hard....calls of, 'taxi, taxi is anyvun be vanting a taxi', didn't help.99. Christ I don't think I've been in a ripper bar more than once or twice since the late 80s.

My most vivid memories of the nudie bar back in the 1980's was seeing some old perv at stage side reaching over the barrier, stealing a stripper's G-string, and then scuttling out of the place as fast as he could before the bouncers got him. Another one was when some coked-up dancer flipped out on stage and tried to kick some Hannibal Lecter-looking guy in the face. We left soon after and she was in the manager's office which was next to the main door, fully dressed and with her bags packed, still screaming 'fuck you! fuck this place! fuck that fucking asshole he's been fucking following me around for months!' and other delightful things typically said by someone in the middle of a frenzied drug-induced meltdown. She was also billed as "Miss Nude Australia" but for some reason her 'accent' sounded a lot more Edmonton than it was Adelaide.

Went back once in the mid-90's and the place was full of hetero couples watching the stage show. Nice. Like bringing the wife or girlfriend along didn't suck what little fun existed in those shitholes to begin with.

1) large cardboard box, lined with a plastic garbage bag filled with cooked spaghetti.

1) 4 gallon pail of tomatoe sauce.

1) kids fiberglass wading pool

3 peelers

Trays of garlic toast for the customers

Spaghetti Wrestling FTW