Recession proof: The $1,000 lap dance
Filed under: Sex Sells, Extracurriculars
I guess sex still sells. And sells well.This blog post in the New York Times writes of a Wall Street area "gentlemen's" club owner who says his business has risen 20% since all this financial sturm und drang has begun.
Call it the retail therapy of the Master of the Universe set. When things look bleakest, damn the wallet, and go over the top. That's why this particular business owner decided to introduce a premium package: The $1,000 lap dance.
For your one large, you get a 20 minute lap dance, a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne and a private champagne room. As a special bonus, you get to keep the girl's G-string.
Let's hope the wife or girlfriend doesn't check your credit card bills. Or your pockets.
Seems to me if you're willing to cough up $1,000 you can have not just the lap dance but the entire mattress dance as well. And in a room that's not sticky or charging you by the hour. But I guess that's just me wanting the most, er, bang for my buck, so to speak.
And I guess I'm missing the point about the whole Big Swinging wallet thing. Dropping that kind of cash for a quickie with your pants on is more about impressing your friends, or maybe convincing yourself that you're still raking in the really big bucks.
The club's owner swears there's a market for this. Male ego is the last thing to go, I suppose.
Former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer paid $3,000 for a beautiful young call girl, who in all likelihood gave him much more than a lap dance. You can't put a price on memories like that. Or can you? Considering Spitzer's record as a Wall Street watchdog, maybe we should have paid his bill for him. And given what's happened on the Street lately, we should have let him keep the G-string. Gratis.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-11-2008 @ 8:51PM
Adrien said...
Ok I'm a guy like any other, I look at hot girls and I think about sex every 30 ... uhh .. ok lets be honest every 30 sexonds (oops) ... but i just never got into paying someone to ACT as though they like you... I mean it's kinda sad to me. but hey..
Just my opinion,
Adrien
http://www.TheNakedHippie.com
Organic Tshirts
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10-13-2008 @ 11:19AM
brittani said...
NIGGUH CUZ WE HUSTLAS....Hustle fools like you while we just look sexyy
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10-13-2008 @ 12:01PM
Alex said...
uggg another angry female writer...hey Julie, lose the nerdy glasses and shed 20 pounds and your boy freind will pay attention to YOU this time...or maybe BFs are not your thing...
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10-13-2008 @ 12:01PM
bree said...
hey Alex - why don't you grow a pair and see if that makes you less afraid of women. or better yet...why don't YOU find a boyfriend and see if he can make you the b*tch you are.
10-13-2008 @ 1:59PM
Sam said...
Your an idiot. Have you ever seen this girl? I have, she a knockout. Just once again proving men are as stupid as they look, and sound and act.
Why don't you grow up, there is a big huge world outside of high school, or were you the star quarterback who made nothing of his pitiful l existence and the last great hurrah was you State Trophy touchdown and so you spend your life making fun of everyone sle so you can feel better about yourself?
Lemmee guess, fat, bald, used to be good looking but drinks and drugs have robbed you of the best of what God gave you.
How's it feel to have the tables turned, jackass
10-13-2008 @ 12:18PM
orser said...
NOTHING will change, NOTHING , an American bstrds cannot help himself. After this all will ride over it be back to bussiness as usual. Old habits die hard and NOBODY desserves it more than ALL of US for not speaking up enough. I am packing
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10-13-2008 @ 1:02PM
Donna said...
So, this is what it has come to, eh? Great. I am asking what is the point of this article? I don't see any reason it was written. Must be a very slow news day.
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10-15-2008 @ 4:18PM
anabangbang said...
regurgitation proof: The $1,000 original idea
the same vip club that got busted back in march for prostitution ?
the same headline used by bruce watson a week ago ?
cmon, the sequel is never going to be as good as the original, especially if you're hacking the content.
10-13-2008 @ 1:14PM
MRAMERICA said...
SECRET MUSLIM MAN
THERE’S A MAN WHO PUTS US ALL IN DANGER.
HE GIVES US BULLSHIT AND REMAINS A STRANGER.
HE’S CALLED THE OBAMA MAN,
AND HE’LL TAX US ALL HE CAN!
THE ODDS ARE HE’LL SCREW UP THE WORLD TOMORROW!
SECRET MUSLIM MAN! SECTET MUSLIM MAN!
THE NAME’S BARACK OBAMA, COMMUNISM IS HIS GAME!
HE’S CAREFUL NOT TO LET HIS BACKGROUND SHOW.
AND THE HOLLYWOOD HOMOS SHOWERED HIM WITH DOUGH.
OUR ENEMIES ARE HIS FRIENDS
THIEVES AND CRIMINALS HE DEFENDS.
THE ODDS ARE HE’LL SCREW UP THE WORLD TOMMORROW.
SECRET MUSLIM MAN! SECRET MUSLIM MAN!
HIS NAME’S BARRACK OBAMA, COMMUNISM IS HIS GAME.
BEWARE HIS SMILING FACE FOR YOU WILL FIND
THAT A SMILING FACE CAN HIDE AN EVIL MIND.
HE’LL TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY
AND REPARATIONS MAKE YOU PAY
THE ODDS ARE HE’LL SCREW UP THE WORLD TOMMORROW!
SECRET MUSLIM MAN! SECRET MUSLIM MAN!
HIS NAME’S BARRACK OBAMA, COMMUNISM IS HIS GAME.
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10-13-2008 @ 1:44PM
Amy said...
You are a sad, strange man.
10-13-2008 @ 1:32PM
Kat said...
Men Are & always have been & always will be..... PIGS..... [ Period]
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10-13-2008 @ 1:53PM
Circus Tim said...
This is retail therapy plain and simple. You spend all day getting blasted on the phone by clients who are losing their shirts, but they tell you to sell. Stock brokers make money every time you buy or sell, there for they are actually making money as all around lose.
Then they go home and all their friends and relatives who were told to buy stock are calling and dropping by. If the broker was smart enough not to borrow money to buy stock, he has a stash of cash, and when he goes to a gentlemans club, as long as he has cash, or a good credit line, he is king. A four foot six 4 houndred pound guy with a few thousand in his pocket is more attractive to a dacer than a six foot muscle bound jock with an I.O.U. .
For an hour r two he is on top of the world.
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10-13-2008 @ 1:48PM
richard said...
Kat, I'm sensing a little hostility here.... "Men are.... pigs..."
Many are, of course. Send me a picture and I'll let you know if I'm one of them! :)
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10-13-2008 @ 2:00PM
Robert said...
If I'm going to spend $3K for sex I'll go to the jewelry store and keep the girl. If you're married go home it's better to get yelled at first that get a disease after.
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10-13-2008 @ 2:16PM
Kat said...
Richard.....No Hostility at all....Sorry!
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11-12-2008 @ 12:32AM
donnhar said...
I own a porn site and sex sells but I want the money she is making
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12-22-2008 @ 11:22AM
HAPPY said...
Wus da night afo' Crizzmus, and all thru da hood,
everybody be sleepin' and da sleepin' be good.
We hunged up our stockins, an hoped like all heck,
dat dear Ol' Obama's, gunna brang us our checks.
All of da family, was ly'in on the flo,
my sister wif her gurlfriend, and my brotha wif some hoe.
Ashtrays was all full, empty beer cans and all
when I heared such a fuss, I thunk...."Sh'eet, it must be da
law".
I pulled the sheet off da winda and what I'ze could see,
I was spectin' the sherrif, wif a warrent fo' me.
But what did I see, made me say, "Laaawd look at dat"
dere was a huge watermelon, pulled by 8 big-ass rats.
Now over all of da years, Santy Claws he be white,
but it looks like us brotha's, got a black un' tonight.
Faster than a poe'lice car, my homeboy he came,
and whupped up on dem rats, as he called dem by name.
On Biden, On Jessie, On Polosi and Hillary Who
On Fannie, On Freddi, On Ayers, and Slick Willy too.
Obama landed dat melon, right dere in da street,
I knowed it fo' sho', - can you believe that Sh'eet!
Dat Santy didn't need no chimney, he picked da lock on my doe,
an I sez to myself, "Son o' *****...he don did dis befoe"!
He had a big bag, full of presents - at first I suspeck?
Wif "Air Jordans" and fake gold, to wear roun my neck.
But he left me no presents, just started stealin my ****.
He got my guns and my crack, and my new burglers kit.
Den, wif my crap in his bag, out da winda he flew,
I sho' woulda shanked him, but he snagged my knife too.
He jumped back on dat melon, wif out even a hitch,
and wuz gone in two seconds, "democrat son of a *****".
So nex year I be hopin', a white Santy we git,
'cause a black Santy Claws, just ain't worf a ****!!!
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