Generally speaking, most people don't visit strip clubs to have good, clean fun. But even with that being the case, it's nice to visit an establishment that doesn't feel like a bio-hazard. With focus on the girls onstage, hygiene and cleanliness are often thrown to the wayside, leaving customers feeling dirty, in more than one way. What is it really like in a strip club VIP room? Do people really have sex in a strip club? Does anyone clean those places?
Strip club workers on Reddit shared some of the most repulsive hygiene practices they've witnessed in their career. From sordid surfaces, to very dirty money, you're gonna need some time to wash your hands after reading these.
Strip Club Employees Describe How Dirty They Really Are,
Customers litter wherever they want
"Anything that looks like it can be used as a trashcan has been. "
Mirrors are cleaned often so security can clearly case the club
"Mirrors must be clean around the club for two reasons. first off it allows men to look without being pervy and second and most importantly for security. club managers/DJ's security need to keep an eye on things."
Blacklights serve a dual purpose
"The black lights are for fluid detection so that employees can track down stains for spot cleaning, but they also have a way of obscuring skin imperfections and blurring some ethnic lines that may turn some men off."
Cash has been everywhere
"Don't put your money where your mouth is. Especially in strip clubs. We washed our hands often and had sanitizing liquid at our bar and stations to cleanse our hands that had touched money that had come into contact with vaginas or mouths. I was always shocked at how many customers were willing to put money into their mouth and lay back on the stage to have it snatched off by a dancer's labia while she was doing the splits."
Employees pee in sinks rather than toilets
"The first club that I worked in had roughly 10 girls that were brought to work from a different country. They would get up onto the counters and urinate into the sinks. We never knew why. Obviously, that was more so in the staff/dancer bathrooms, not the ones intended for public. Regardless, it was disgusting to think that we staff were to wash our hands there and then handle drinks."
Carpet holds on to any liquid
"It's dirty. The staff does the best they can, and we have a cleaning crew every night, but carpet and clubs are always a dicey mix. Dirty feet, spilled drinks, vomit, plus other unsavory fluids are hard to get out of carpet permanently."
Toilets are coated with cocaine
"The tops of the toilet tanks often have powdery residue on them. Obviously from dancers/patrons (male or female) doing lines of coke. Some bar managers used to spray the toilet tops with Pam or wipe them with oil... was good for a laugh."
Hopefully this won't happen to you when you head to a strip club.
Stage floors aren't cleaned often
"I'm a stripper and at my last club I was a stripper/bartender so I knew the whole rundown of the place. We were an about 40 girl club with three stages. The poles were cleaned by every girl for every set but the floors, which we do roll around and do floor work on, are cleaned twice a week. Friday and Saturday. Then we get all those nasty floor germs all up on your lap."
The bartender's hands are only as clean as the cash
"Those bartender's hands aren't that clean when they've been handling and exchanging stripper money then throwing the limes into your glass."
Couches are just giant sponges for bodily fluids
"The couches in the private areas are scary. As staff, we never sat on them. Customers are known to be messy and yes, there are likely to be bodily fluids being exchanged or 'wiped' on the couches. Many men would go into the bathroom prior to getting a lap dance and put on a condom inside of their pants so that if they (you know) it would be less messy for cleanup. That certainly isn't to say that we didn't find our share of discarded condoms on the floor near the couches after hours. Full contact is actually illegal here, but it was never a surprise to see a girl, naked, grinding away on a customer's lap."