How to fail at business - Have a feminist strip club - What It Was Like to Work at the Lusty Lady, a Unionized Strip Club - Lily Burana

PerniciousOne · 2013-09-04T06:10:09+00:00

By neglecting to do the main thing that a strip club offers, and then treating the customers poorly why wonder the company neglected to get repeat business and have to close its doors.

It was even offering free admission, and paying the dancers low wages. They decided to blame internet porn instead, you may get more interaction with the internet porn than with these women.

2013-09-04T09:31:58+00:00

I have always said that the internet killed the burlesque show. They aren't wrong about that. They just weren't a real strip club to begin with, so they couldn't compete with real strip clubs.

Men will pay for lap dances and to interact with strippers who offer the illusion of ease (they don't judge you or make things difficult). We aren't going to pay just to watch women dance naked, not without some other significant draw. The internet is a far superior option for that.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-09-04T15:59:59+00:00

Customers weren’t allowed to dictate the show in any way, but that didn’t stop of some them from pantomiming stage direction through the glass. A “whoop de doo” finger spiraling in the air meant “turn around.” Fingers together and flapping out like fish fins meant “spread ‘em.” Poor lambs, to each motioned command, the answer was the same: No.

Uh . . . ok . . . you're in a city with plenty of strip clubs and you refuse to cater to what your customer wants. Seems like it was only a matter of time.

Feminism in general doesn't fare well outside of politics and academia, in the real world, because it was never based on the real world.

That the terms of interaction were non-negotiable underscored for many dancers a valuable aspect of sexual self-awareness: This is mine.

"Welcome to femburger, fuck you!"

-could I get a cheeseburger please?

"no, these are mine. I am empowered so you get nothing!"

-maybe a shake and fries?

"no, I don't owe you men anything. I'm calling the cops. HELP ASSAULT!"

For all its positive attributes, the Lusty hardly wanted for shortcomings. For starters, it was—and I say this affectionately—a dump. The endlessly cheerful support staff made sure that the stage and Private Pleasures booth were tidy, and the dressing room as neat as could be, but the public areas resembled a dimly lit Dionysian hellscape in which one could almost hear the carpet squish. The business's feminist philosophy didn't do much to protect you when, as a dancer, you reached the inevitable burnout of physical and psychological overexposure that comes from TMI being your day job. And while the hourly wage meant a girl didn’t have to exhaust herself hustling for tips, the pay was quite low by industry standards—typically from the low-teens to low-twenties per hour. Still, for an enterprising artist, social reformer, or student who was willing to dive into the sex industry but didn’t want to feed her soul to it, the Lusty was reliable, companionable choice.

So it's a failed shithole that despite it's theology didn't actually make things better for women.

Sounds about right for a feminist-run anything.

ZimbaZumba · 2013-09-04T11:16:37+00:00

The title is misleading, the club had little to do with feminism. It is a shame the club closed, it is an end of an era. Big business basically won and the World is perhaps moving on.

automatopeapod · 2013-09-04T18:25:54+00:00

How to fail at business... stay open for forty years, obviously.

Title	How to fail at business - Have a feminist strip club - What It Was Like to Work at the Lusty Lady, a Unionized Strip Club - Lily Burana
Author	PerniciousOne
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Comments	5
Date	September 4, 2013 6:07 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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