Sixty dollars for a lap dance
I went to PT's tonight. I asked a girl to do some lap dances with me. The lap dance area normally has an attendant there who you give six dollars to and then in exchange for that you get a wrist band that lets you use the lap dance area the rest of the night. Tonight, though, the attendant told me they dropped the wrist band and the charge was now five dollars for each visit to the back. She also said the girls now charge what they want. I turned to the stripper and asked what she charged for a lap dance. I was shocked when she said sixty dollars for one lap dance. I think she saw the shocked look on my face because she immediately changed it to forty. I then told her I was going to do two but at forty dollars we could do one. She then said if I was doing two she would drop it down to twenty five dollars. That's close to the standard price in all the Indianapolis clubs. During the lap dance I told her she and the other girls could charge sixty dollars but a lot of guys would never come back. I know that because they tried this same thing before. The numbers of customers dropped and then they had to reinstitute the twenty five dollar set price.
Since it didn't work before, I'm surprised they are trying it again. Maybe everyone there is new and doesn't know what happened before. Many strippers have the idea that they can make twice as much money if they charge twice as much. That ends up not working because lap dances are a luxury, not a necessity, for most guys and they are not willing to pay any price to get one. With the recent high levels of inflation, strip clubs will need to raise prices somewhat but they also need to be aware that many customers are struggling to pay for necessities due to the inflation and are being more price conscious when they go to the strip club. After I did my two lap dances with my girl, I went out and sat and drank for a while. She went over and sat at an empty table for an hour and I saw other girls sitting around not doing anything. They may be trying to make up for lack of customers by trying to get more money out of the ones who do come in but I don't think that's the best way to go.