Sometimes they go beyond the offices. Today is just such a day. We decided to tell readers about a profession that always attracts attention, but still remains a mystery. A stripper from one of the Moscow clubs shared with us all the secrets of her work: from clients to earnings.
What is the difference between an office and a club?
I would like to note right away that yes, I am a stripper, but please do not confuse me with representatives of another, more ancient profession. I know how people usually react to me when they find out what I do. And I still think that there is nothing wrong with what I do.
What's more, I think it's more fun and more lucrative than cute, cozy office jobs. What is the joy of an office employee? Gets up early every day. Without enough sleep, he runs to work through the sweaty subway or heavy traffic jams. He sits in front of the monitor all day, damaging his eyesight and not only his eyesight. And he gets his 40-80 thousand rubles. At best. For me, everything is different.
Even in my youth, I learned what very easy and affordable money is, and I got used to it. I didn’t get this habit from my family. My mother works at the post office, my father is a driver. I knew how hard it was for them to earn a living, and, at the same time, I myself had the opportunity to receive many times more, but without putting in so much effort. Time passed, and that easy money stopped being so easy My friend went to study at the institute, and I learned to dance striptease. And now I’m here, in a club in the center of Moscow.
By the way, I have a daughter, she is almost a year old, and a boyfriend. He knows about my work and is not at all embarrassed, he loves me, he is happy with my salary, how I look and what I can do.
Like a taxi driver
My working day, or rather night, begins at 9 pm and lasts until 6 am.
I come to the club, change clothes, put on makeup, and do my hair. When the show program begins, we take turns going on stage and dancing. Each stripper comes up with her own performance. It lasts from 7 to 15 minutes.
After I leave, I go down to the hall and, while other girls are dancing, I work with the tables, performing personal dances. Of course, you don’t have to do this; you can go back behind the stage and smoke there while waiting for your turn. But they won’t give you money for this!
When the last girl finishes dancing, I go on stage again. How a taxi driver took the client and stood at the end of the line again.
In the team I’m the only one from Moscow. The rest of the girls are newcomers. The most interesting thing is that they are mostly from Ivanovo. Of course, we have tough competition. For example, new girls (and there is a constant turnover) are allowed to go on stage only last, when the “old-timers” have already sorted out the main “contingent”.
“Contingent” versus “candy wrappers”
The fact is that we divide guests into two categories: “candy wrappers” and “contingent”.
“Wrappers” are young people, students or novice office plankton who that evening decided to exchange the traditional beer with shrimp for naked women. Each of them has a thousand rubles in their pocket, and despite all your efforts, they will not give you more than this amount.
“Contingent” on the contrary, respectable adult men, polished, in expensive suits, a tasty morsel for us. There are many foreigners among them. On the “contingent” you can earn from 5 to 10 thousand rubles in one evening. The main thing is to find an approach and properly “deceive” the client.
Both of them, in general, are immediately visible, if only by what’s on their tables. Even during your dance, you outline your clients in the hall: who is looking at you, who can be better deceived. True, sometimes you can make a mistake, you look like his tie is expensive, and the drinks on the table are not cheap, you think “contingent!” You come up, dance in front of him, and he’s a “candy wrapper.” He's just skillfully pretending.
Psychology in general is very important point in my profession. We must try to create comfortable environment for the client and make sure that he gives his money calmly and with pleasure.
You can also get money for expensive food
I don’t have a salary as such. They don’t transfer money to my card twice a month. I work on a two-by-two schedule. And night after night in terms of earnings is not necessary. Sometimes you manage to earn 1-1.5 thousand rubles, and sometimes 10,000-15,000 rubles. It all depends on the day of the week, holidays and so on. Well, and the desire to earn money. If you go on stage, simply take off all your clothes and go back to the dressing room, you won’t get much. What is important is the twinkle in the eyes and arrogance. In our world, only these qualities pay off. The competition is wild.
By the way, in addition to scamming rich guys out of money for striptease, there is another, completely legal, way to make money. True, also with the help of the same “contingent”. It happens, and quite often, one of them asks you to sit at his table, offers to order something The main thing here is not to be modest and order drinks and food from a special (expensive) menu. Then you will receive a percentage of the order amount. I receive approximately 25% of the order amount. The administrator issues the money at the end of the shift.
Occupational hazards
Of course, in my work there are unpleasant situations when clients go beyond the limits, cease to control themselves and let go of their hands. But this happens quite rarely. Depends on the general atmosphere. Sometimes it gets very tense and on some evenings the security literally does not have time to pull the overexcited clients away from the girls. And it happens that everything goes quietly, peacefully and orderly.
As long as I'm in the club, I'm not afraid of clients. There are security guards everywhere, who, if anything happens, will always come up and explain to the client how to behave with the girl. In addition, you can negotiate with the girl - the club has a separate room in which strippers perform private dances for a separately negotiated amount. There are no fixed prices for private dances; it all depends on how you communicate with the client.
Conditions of employment
I don’t have any work record or any contract with the club. I can stop going to work at one point and that’s it. Nobody will ask me for a resignation letter.
But I always look good: manicure, pedicure, hairdresser and solarium are at my service. This is the social package. True, I buy my stage costume for myself, with my own money. Although the suit is a strong word. Panties, bra, skirt, blouse can be bought both in a regular store and in a specialized one. There is no need to invent anything extraordinary, the main thing is that it looks sexy.
And everything would be fine, but I’m very tired and drink a lot of alcohol (if the client offers a treat, you can’t refuse). I can’t even imagine what I’ll do after 30.
This text, practically unchanged, was sent to me by a reader of my blog. This fits best in the Q&A section, so read on...
We make $1000 a night and live in luxury
Yes and no. In general, this is not true. It's 2014, and as far as I remember, the world has not yet recovered from the global crisis. Spending money on strippers is an unaffordable waste of money, and it's not a bill that necessarily needs to be paid. Dancers work much longer and go to work more often than ten years ago. On average, strippers probably earn $150-$400 per night, but there are no exact statistics. Of course, there are nights when we earn a lot, but this happens very rarely. You also need to take into account those cases when a dancer works the entire shift and leaves with 1000 small bills or nothing. We will return to this later. This happens quite often.
We didn't go to school and we don't have college degrees because strippers are STUPID
“Do you have a diploma? Where did you study? - the client smiles smugly. Well, in fact, how can strippers go to school, much less get a degree? If they actually had a degree, would they be doing this? Would they consider themselves “too smart” for the job? (I hear this quite often). Sometimes just accidentally uttering a word of scientific jargon can cause your clients' jaws to drop. Strippers are supposed to be ditzy, brainless beauties, but in reality this is far from the case.
We are drug addicts/alcoholics
In the 17 years I've been in this industry, I haven't seen strippers do drugs more often than ordinary people. Of course, there are strippers on the needle, but they don’t stay at the club for long, they either get fired or disappear somewhere. There are also such “home girls” in the club (they work as nurses in the club), they, as a rule, leave drunk every night. Strippers are unlikely to allow themselves to drink too much, since they need to control the situation, otherwise they will not earn the money they planned.
We are heterosexual nymphomaniacs
Well yes, of course.
We all suffer from the Electra complex.
The Electra complex is a phenomenon akin to the Oedipus complex. But it manifests itself in girls. The complex consists of girls’ unconscious attraction, like Agamemnon’s daughter Electra (after whom the complex is named), to their own father and competition with their mother for his attention.
Why does everyone have such an opinion about strippers? Personally, I have a very trusting relationship with my father. He was there when I was growing up. Maybe some dancers really suffer from this, but...
I want to quote my mother, with whom I am very close. She once said, “No one leaves this life unscathed.” I don't believe that girls become strippers out of attraction to their father and rivalry with their mother, just as I don't believe in widespread alcoholism and drug addiction.
We have all suffered from sexual violence.
Here are a few interesting facts about a woman’s life, regardless of profession:
One in three girls suffers sexual harassment in their daily lives
- one in four experienced sexual abuse before age 18
- one in six was a victim of rape
Thus, many women have been or are being sexually assaulted, regardless of their profession. Does this happen more often with strippers? We don’t know, there is no official data on this matter.
As a rule, we are “unclean”
Do you even know how clean strippers are? You can’t even imagine how much time we spend on personal care: plucking hairs, waxing, washing, shaving, creams, treating those places on the body that an ordinary girl doesn’t even worry about. We hear the comparison “clean as a stripper’s vagina” quite often. We are very clean. Why? Yes, because we are sellers, and we sell our own bodies. We cannot neglect hygiene. Think with your head, the one on your shoulders.
If a girl decided to become a stripper, she chose the easy way for herself.
The easy way? Is it really easy to go on stage in a room with a bunch of people, then take off your clothes, and still look confident, sexy and dance beautifully? Would you do that? And this is just the beginning. What about strange-smelling men who make bad jokes every now and then? Sometimes clients can say a lot of offensive things about your body, face, and appearance. Easily? No. Especially enduring the judgment or ridicule of family members and friends, sometimes this happens. Yes, very easy.
We hate our jobs and our lives
Some yes, most no. In my opinion, here we are no different from people in other professions, for example, a person who has worked in a factory all his life.
We are not capable of anything else, this is the only thing we can do
I don't have children, but I have a law degree. In fact, there were no terrible life circumstances in my life that would have forced me to become a stripper. I do it because I like it, like most dancers, I like it because it gives me freedom and money. With this kind of work, I can pay for almost all my needs, and, believe me, they are more than most of the readers. But at the same time I save money for the future. This is my choice and I like it. A lot of girls who have children do this so that they can spend more time during the day with their children, and at the same time so that their children have everything they need. I don't see anything wrong with that, and if you think otherwise, I'd like to know why.
We can't have a permanent romantic relationship
As soon as your significant other understands that striptease is just work, everything will fall into place. I know a lot of married strippers.
We're all selling something "extra"
Maybe some people sell it, but not me. Some people actually do this, but there are few of them, at least among those I know. Although we are actually selling the body, we are selling it as a whole, not in pieces to satisfy primitive needs. A stripper is not a prostitute, so stop asking stupid questions. No, I won't go to your room.
We can all dance on a pole, and we make money right on stage
There are "scene" clubs and "dance" clubs. Some don't even have poles. In most of the clubs where I worked, they make money by dancing.
Everything we earn goes only to us
This is what hurts me the most. Did you know that strippers pay to dance? When getting a job, a stripper signs a contract where she “rents the club space.” We pay for every night we dance. It came to us from America, where it is standard scheme. There are other people in these establishments who need to be paid: DJs, managers, assistants. Some even pay taxes. In general, the stripper receives only 60-70% of all earnings.
We only make money from rich daddy's boys
No. Every week an ordinary-looking manager comes to our club to watch me dance. He and I have been communicating as friends for a long time, although I am afraid that we will soon cross this line of friendship. He works hard all week, earns money, and comes to me on weekends. And yes, I like him, but I can’t stand daddy’s boys.
Being a stripper is humiliation
The last time I felt humiliated was when I worked in retail. There I received a salary that was impossible to live on. Now I can make as much in one night as I used to earn in a month. Humiliation is if a client drank all night, fell asleep at the table, and woke up to see a huge check, which he must report to his wife. This is truly humiliating.
Strippers have no morals
If you think strippers have no morals and all they want is to find a gold mine, there's something more wrong with you than with me. I don't remember that when I signed the contract, I sold my soul to the devil. I'm an ordinary girl, I love my family and my friends.
And enough of the prejudices...
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Many of our friends have never been to strip clubs. And not everyone from the BroDude editorial team had a chance to be there. What is the reason? Perhaps prejudice, perhaps there was no time. Be that as it may, this place is extremely interesting in principle and is still worth visiting at least once. At least for educational purposes and to expand your horizons.
You may say: “Well, what should I do there, I’m above this.” And we will answer: we are not offering you a strip club, which is more of a brothel than a club. We have not yet lost our conscience and moral principles - on the contrary, we share them with all those who suffer. Therefore, now we will make an attempt to change your idea of this phenomenon our life.
To do this, we found not a strip club where all your savings will be shaken out of you and where sin and debauchery reign, but a much more decent establishment - an erotic show club. It differs from other places in a much better way. Here the work of the dancers has been made into art, and the main goal is to turn your stay into a sexy, exciting and beautiful show that will be the way you want.
But you opened the article because of the enticing headline. So let's not delay - we asked one of the Virgins girls, who wished to remain anonymous, about all the most interesting things.
What determines the prices for entertainment in the club? Is it possible to get a discount from a girl?
Prices in the club primarily depend on the actresses’ bracelets. Each performer has her own bracelet color, which denotes her specific role in relation to the guests. Therefore, some of the entertainment has different prices. There are also certain entertainments at a fixed price for everyone. All this is written down in the entertainment menu, so guests never have any confusion with the choice, and there is also a concierge girl who will always tell you in detail about everything that interests the guest.
All our prices are fixed, so artists cannot make discounts. Discounts can be applied to the club’s privileged card on the entire bar, restaurant and hookah menu. Plus, various promotions are constantly held on our website, and guests receive gifts. For example, with promotions you can get a treat with any drink of your choice. There are promotions where you can get a privilege card and many others pleasant surprises from the club.
What kind of girls are there in the club (dancers, party girls, etc.)? Can I order any one I like?
In our club there are several main “categories” of artists: experienced dancers, club girls Party Girls, elite Black Diamond girls, hostesses, concierges and the main feature of the club, highly appreciated by the majority of guests - virgins (inexperienced young girls who have never worked in striptease , still fresh and naive). And each wears a bracelet that symbolizes the color of her role.
Depending on the bracelet, each artist’s solo performance has its own twist: the artist with a white bracelet will dance touchingly, tenderly and a little shyly; an experienced girl with a blue bracelet will show true skill and cool technique; Party Girl with a red bracelet will break all boundaries and light the fire of desire in the guest.
The guest can offer a private dance to any artist, hostess or concierge girl he likes. The cost of the dance is also divided and depends on the level of the bracelet. In addition, the guest can free the girl from working within the club. Since each artist has her own program and goes on stage from time to time, many guests prefer that she does not leave, but sits only in his company and devotes herself only to him.
What does the girls' salary consist of? Is there a percentage on guest orders?
The girls' salary usually consists of a fixed exit fee plus a percentage of private dances and entertainment. Consummation, common in many clubs, is completely prohibited in our country. We are not paid any interest on guest orders. If the guest wants, he can easily treat the artist to a drink, but other than the drink, the artist will not receive any reward. As far as I know, this club policy was implemented from the very beginning.
Tell us how you came to this work (what was the reason)?
I worked as a go-go and a dancer in a regional club for about two years. I like the nightlife, the atmosphere of fun and relaxation. I don’t see myself at all in the office, although I have higher education. And then I wanted to take it to the next level. It was definitely Moscow. I studied the websites of many clubs, their conditions, and ultimately chose Virgins. Thanks to the conditions of the club, the move and adaptation were very easy. They paid for my ticket to the capital and for the first time I was given a job in a women's hotel for new employees. Afterwards I met people and now I’m renting an apartment with my neighbor. I really like the atmosphere of the Moscow club, and I am completely satisfied with the work.
Have you thought that such work would unduly liberate you or change your views? How do your friends and relatives feel about your work? Is it causing relationship problems? Do you think working in a club is cooler than working in an office?
I don't think my work influences my views in any way. Since I was 17, I loved going to clubs, hanging out, and going for walks. Relatives are also aware. Of course, at first the parents were worried, but now they treat full understanding to my activities. Relationships were also always in order. In Moscow everything is even simpler. If in the regions people create various stereotypes and taboos for themselves, it is much easier here; People's consciousness is, let's say, more open. On the other hand, if someone thinks that it’s possible to work in a strip club and be in a relationship - it’s possible. Of course, there are many hard-style clubs in Moscow, where guests can demand any action from the artists. is part of the official association of strip clubs in Russia. This is the so-called eco-friendly striptease. , excitement, but no massage or intimacy. Guests come for pleasure, contemplation of beauty and communication with girls. We strictly prohibit sex, there are no rooms for privacy with guests, and it is impossible to pick up the artist from the club. This policy also played a big role in choosing my place of work.
What if friends come to the club? Does a client's physical attractiveness affect the quality of your work? What if the guy is very scary?
We don’t have clients, all of us who come are guests. If friends come to the club, there is nothing wrong with that. We also have the opportunity to communicate. Moreover, if a guest has a premium card, he has a special opportunity - we can exchange phone numbers and correspond outside the club. The attractiveness of the guest does not in any way affect the quality of my work. I'm an artist! Our activity is a kind of art, where there are no ideals of beauty, there is only diversity. And beauty is different for everyone. Different guests choose different artists. If you communicate with a guest and understand that you are not his type, and he has been looking away at another girl for two minutes, for us this is normal and not offensive. We will go and call for him the one that suits his taste.
What happens if a guest allows himself too much? What is generally possible and what is not? Describe your ideal guest. Are there categories into which you divide visitors?
Regarding the behavior of guests, there is a clear understanding of what can and cannot be done. Allowed to touch, stroke, hug. Guests are prohibited from exposing their private parts and penetration is completely prohibited. With such actions - no matter who was the initiator - the artist may be fired, and the guest, if he decides to flagrantly violate the rules, will be blacklisted. However, in reality this happens very rarely. In my three years of work, there was only one case when an artist decided to play around a little, after which she was fired. There are also guests who cannot calculate the strength. Sometimes men, especially those with a strong build, can spank so that a small bruise remains. Of course, we politely explain to such “strong men” that fragile girls need to be protected.
There is no standard for an ideal guest for us. All guests are different, they all have their own requirements and wishes. This is precisely why bracelets for actresses were introduced - so that everyone could find their own type of girl with whom they would feel as comfortable and cozy as possible.
We do not divide guests into categories. Moreover, new guests, those who do not often visit men's clubs, have a small fear: if he does not spend money, the artists will not communicate with him. We have solved this problem by regulation. The performers move around the club and, when they do not have a solo performance, they communicate with the guest. It doesn’t matter if he ordered a couple of shots during the evening or eats, drinks and goes non-stop for private dances - for the artists to socialize. Who to choose and what to order is decided only by the guest himself.
Were there any funny or amusing incidents? Injuries at work or something similar. Do you have any rituals before work and performances?
We don’t have any special rituals before performances. Only self-evident things: that before a performance, every artist is obliged to take a shower, wear delicious perfume, comb her hair, eat tick-tock sweets, in general, look one hundred percent in all respects and be in a good mood.
Nobody gets injured here. If we talk about injuries during training, they actually don’t happen. The entire program is designed in such a way that you gradually learn new elements, increasing your level. Of course, if a new artist immediately decides to perform a difficult element, looking at an experienced colleague, most likely she will fail, but it will be more likely a slight bruise than a noticeable injury. If we talk about injuries from guests, then we have trained security at the entrance, so people who are too drunk, inappropriate or rude in tracksuits simply do not get through to us. Because of this, the safety of girls and guests is always at the level.
Regarding funny incidents, yes, small funny incidents happen. I'll tell you a funny story. One day a company of three fairly wealthy guests came to us. Until 7 am they drank together, went to private dances, smoked hookahs, and at 7 am the work of our club ends. There were practically no other guests, but the guests decided to continue and eventually extended the work of the entire club for another hour.
As a result, the guests asked to find a bucket and persuaded the bartender to mix a crazy cocktail of all kinds of drinks in it (a little bit of everything that was in the bar). The waitresses took a large ladle and served the guests this cocktail - they competed to see who could drink the most.
Another waitress danced nearby, wearing a kokoshnik from her own apron. The hostess sat on the table and fanned the guests from above. This evening was fun not only for the guests, but also for the entire staff.
Leadership - what is it? How do they treat you? What are you prohibited from doing, and what is desirable?
The club's management is fair. Of course, you can’t always be good, but you can’t please everyone. If any of the performers makes the same mistake more than twice, of course, she will be reprimanded and forced to learn the rules. It is interesting to watch how managers come to the club and test new features themselves before introducing anything into the regulations. We are constantly testing various innovations to make interaction with guests even more comfortable and improve service.
What do you have to sacrifice for work? Has working in striptease taught you anything?
For me personally, the only thing I have to sacrifice because of work is my morning run. Finishing work at 6 am, I have to sleep until at least 1 pm, but this does not upset me at all, because I am a 100% night owl. I think it's a little more difficult for early risers to get used to this kind of routine.
Working in striptease teaches you mainly three things: to move beautifully, to communicate more freely with the opposite sex anywhere and to take care of yourself.
Tell us about the advantages of your club. Why did you choose to work there? Why is he better than others?
What attracts you and what you don’t like about your work? How long do you plan to work and where will you go after?
In general, everything about work attracts me, otherwise I would not have worked and would have gone somewhere in my specialty. I like my field, and after working as an artist, prospects in related professions open up, from a strip trainer to an art director in the entertainment industry.
The Village continues to find out how the personal budget of representatives of different professions works. In the new episode - a dancer from a Moscow strip club. She told why she started pole dancing, how she got a job, what kind of clients come to her and how much she earns.
Profession
stripper
Salary
60–110,000 rubles
(average 80,000 rubles)
Spending
4,000 rubles
public transport
10,000 rubles
5,000 rubles
work clothes
25,000 rubles
2,000 rubles
15,000 rubles
hobby (BJD dolls)
19,000 rubles
savings
How to become a stripper
I graduated from nine years of school and studied at a design college. I started working at the age of 14 - I always really wanted to do it. The first place of work was kindergarten, where I painted swings and other metal things on the playgrounds. I also worked at McDonald's - and in many places in general. It was easy to get into striptease. I didn’t have to feed my family, and life didn’t force me - I started dancing because I wanted to.
I liked pole dancing, I watched dance videos on the Internet - it was so cool! But there was no money for a subscription to do this myself. Besides, I was very embarrassed of myself - I was fat and constantly sat at the computer, what kind of dancing? At some point I decided to do it, saved up some money and went to classes. At first nothing worked out, so five months passed, I ran out of money, I hitchhiked to the south and returned in the fall. Then the thought crept in that if I succeeded, I could try to work in this.
It took me a month to gather my courage and went to get a job at the club. They didn’t take me, making it clear that I wasn’t fit for them (not surprising: the club was good, and I still worked there when I got in shape). My best friend and I found a simpler club and went there together. They hired us right out of the gate, without any work experience - they basically didn’t care. Of course, we were very nervous, we brought dresses, shoes, and various underwear with us, but they didn’t even look at our luggage.
First we had to come up with stage names, the manager chose my name - he called me Aphrodite. In my opinion, it didn't suit me at all. Dancing on stage for the first time was scary, but I did it, although now I barely remember what I did then and how I felt. I was never afraid to undress. Difficulties arose mainly when it was necessary to approach men and start a conversation. I have always been not very sociable and not arrogant at all, so at first it was hard. But still, for any girl there was a guest for whom she was a goddess, and he spent money only on her.
After some time, it became easier for me - I began to enjoy my work. The club has a cool atmosphere, it’s like another world there. Everywhere beautiful women, in underwear or evening dresses, everything sparkles and glows, it’s like you’ve arrived on another planet. And pole dancing looks cool and beautiful. Yes, not everyone knows how to do some tricks, but in the right light even when a girl just walks around the pole, she looks mesmerizing.
Features of work
I've been working about four days a week for almost three years. Most often, clubs have a so-called “guarantee” - a certain rate per night. My guarantee is 1,500 rubles. To receive this money, it is enough to comply with some conditions: work at least four days a week and go to the gym at 11 pm completely ready. If this does not work out, your earnings consist only of what you earn yourself.
I need to dance topless on stage (sometimes completely topless when the club hosts themed days), participate in the show, and also work with guests. They need to sell items from a crazy menu - for example, private dances or artist release (when a guest pays a certain amount for a particular girl to sit only with him and not go on stage). In intimate clubs, you need to be alone with the guest (it’s obvious why): usually he pays for the room and for the girl’s time separately. But I didn’t work in such clubs, so I don’t know much about it.
With the preparation of rooms, everything is different in each club. Somewhere the show consists of one improvisation, somewhere the numbers are rehearsed before work at a general meeting, somewhere they train themselves. Some clubs have choreographers who help prepare routines and teach beginners. And, of course, if you want to put your number, you must agree on it with the manager.
My working day begins with the fact that I come to the club at 18-19 hours, get ready, put on makeup and do my hair. Then, when I’m ready to perform, I go up to the manager - he checks my makeup, clothes, whether my legs are smooth, and so on. Then I get to work. I walk around, offer guests a private meal, drink with them or order something. When the DJ announces me, I go on stage and also host the show if I’m not sitting in release. Basically, this is all my work.
In private, a guest can take one girl or several - as he wants. There the girls dance and undress completely. The guest can touch and stroke us, but without fanaticism. Sex, of course, is prohibited. We also have certain rules: you can’t take off a guest’s pants, you can’t be rude and swear, you can’t get drunk, you need to take payment on time. In private there are different things: serious-looking men love to be beaten and spanked, there are foot fetishists (sexual attraction to feet. - Ed.), and there are those who come just to chat. For example, I had a guest with whom we discussed cartoons in private, and the other one danced for me. There are also VIP guests who cannot be approached just like that, since they sit in a box and call the girls they like themselves or through the manager.
In this area, you need to be able to be friends with everyone, because today you helped someone make money, and tomorrow that girl called you when her rich guest came. A man needs to be able to please him at first sight, communicate correctly, and win him over. Make him want to come again and again and pay for you to be around.
The most pleasant thing about my work is probably the atmosphere, dancing and beautiful people around, as well as the movement. You can learn a lot of new things by communicating with good people. And the most unpleasant thing is stupid, arrogant guests who are trying to cheat, and simply unkempt men. Sometimes there are frankly bad days, when everyone refuses or there are few guests, often I’m just tired of communication.
Of course, what I remember most about my work are the guests with unusual preferences, such as BDSM. For example, a guest comes to us and pays for an hour of release for a girl in order to simply undress her, blindfold her and fasten her to the table. So she sits on her knees for an hour. There was also a funny incident: we have a go-go cage on stage, tall and with a door. Once, one girl got so annoyed with a guest that he put her in this cage for an hour of release, only for her to fall behind.
I think that striptease has changed me a lot: I have become bolder and more feminine, I began to understand people better, I learned to make new acquaintances and communicate, I stopped being shy.
All my friends know who I work for - I see no reason to hide it. I have never met anyone who had a negative attitude towards my work and me - perhaps I just don’t communicate with such people. In principle, I don’t give a damn what anyone thinks, the main thing is that I like it.
Salary
Our income is extremely unstable. Those who have been working for a long time may receive more or less the same amount per day. I can’t do this yet, because I often change clubs and take breaks from work, I don’t have time to get used to it. Sometimes I get tired - then I go on vacation, and then I start working in a new place. Also, the salary depends on the season - the hottest time is in winter, before the New Year.
I earn from 60 to 110 thousand rubles a month. A percentage of the services that I managed to sell is added to the rate. Each club has its own, usually they give me about 50%. Guests can also give tips, which I keep for myself. This average salary; There are girls who make 250–300 thousand rubles a month, but there are few of them, and they plow every day.
Spending
I don’t pay for housing, I live in my apartment in the Moscow region. I am quite happy with public transport - I spend 4 thousand rubles a month. Sometimes I take a taxi, but I rarely pay for it. I spend 10 thousand rubles on food, but on clothes it’s always different. Clothes in the style that I love are not cheap, so about 20 thousand rubles are spent on them. The last time a man bought me a dress, it cost about $120. In a cafe, even if I pay for myself, I spend about 500 rubles. I don't see any point in spending more on this. I don't have any loans.
You can save money when everything is good at work, that is, on those days when many good guests come. I usually save up for something specific - for example, this is how I saved up for breast surgery. I worked for a month and had an operation, it cost me 130 thousand rubles. This is not for the sake of work, but for herself. I had huge complexes about my body, but now everything is fine.
I have a hobby. I really love BJD dolls - I sew clothes for them and do makeup. This costs up to 15 thousand rubles a month.
I don't travel often. In principle, I can work abroad and combine business with pleasure. Then, as a rule, I only need to buy tickets. I can probably deny myself everything. If I really need to, I can live in any conditions.
Natasha Fedorenko
I came to striptease a month and a half after of his majority. Before that, I dated a man who loved young girls - but by that time we broke up, and I was already used to spending ten thousand rubles a day, and I felt uncomfortable when they were gone. I knew what I was going for - money.
I typed “good strip club Moscow” into the search engine and went to interviews at the first five addresses. I chose a club where I could start working immediately after the interview: the ability to dance was optional. At first I felt like a stranger: I didn’t have my own shelf in the locker room, on busy days I changed clothes in the toilet or on a bench next to the managers. Then it got better.
Portrait in the office
The artistic director of the club didn’t deal with us; usually he just yelled at planning meetings. But it didn't matter. You can make good money by dancing like at a rural disco, or you can be a professional and make 700 rubles a night - you don’t have to do it every time. Only a few danced well - they had pre-set routines. The rest simply held on to the pole with one hand and foot - I was one of them.
Guests usually look at the figure. One girl earned a million from private dances, and her portrait hung in the director’s office. In my opinion, she was stupid, not particularly pretty, but she had a size 6 breast, and the men paid her ten privates (private dances - Ed.), to watch her jump, squat, lie down, or to touch her breasts. There were also girls who were completely “made” (as was fashionable in the 2000s), with huge breasts and lips.
Sex and consummation
I have a fairly ordinary appearance, so I quickly learned to remain sympathetically silent in order to receive tips - the club receives only 30% of them, and this is quite profitable. The main thing is to understand which of the clients really has money, otherwise you can sit all night next to a beggar for 500 rubles - he will not order anything at the bar. Strippers receive a percentage of the order from the table where they sat - this is called consummation. At the club where I worked, orders started at fifteen thousand rubles.
You had to split the rest of your earnings equally with the club. “Crazy menu” is a list of non-private services. For an additional fee, you could, for example, watch simulated lesbian sex in the main hall or lick salt from the nipples of a stripper. Everyone made money from private dances, including waitresses, bartenders and the club administrator. You don’t need a lot of intelligence for this - you just need to squirm for five minutes in what your mother gave birth to. A private session with an ordinary girl cost 1,400 rubles for five minutes; fatal beauties cost three to four times more.
Sex with clients could only be had on the night from December 31 to January 1 - the price was set by the girls themselves. At other times, sex was prohibited under penalty of dismissal: clients could not touch us in the bikini area, and we could not remove their pants. There were cameras everywhere - sometimes security would peep into private booths, checking if everything was in order (by the way, in many other clubs they allow sex). You could only get to your belongings after the performance naked and without shoes - before, the girls hid their “tea” so as not to share it with the club, so they began to search everyone.
"Girl in a Box"
At the very beginning of my work, I decided to have sex bypassing the club, but a stupid thing happened. A 40-year-old man invited me to his dacha on Rublyovka and promised to give me 20 thousand rubles. We got into a taxi, I dozed off and woke up in a village near Volokolamsk. The man was high on some kind of hard drug, lying on the sofa and muttering something. I stayed there the whole next day, because Moscow taxis refused to take me from there, it was too far away - I was able to leave only in the evening. In the process, I met his mother, who attacked me with her fists. Of course, I didn’t receive any money and now I take the amount in advance so that the man doesn’t promise something that he won’t deliver.
The situations were different. They offered me a private meeting in a gas mask. There was also a good guy who courted me beautifully, but nothing came of it - now we only congratulate each other on the holidays on social networks. And there was one guy who brought a box into the club and said: “I want some ugly chick to sit here for five minutes.” The girl sat in the box for a couple of minutes and received thirty thousand rubles as a tip.
As a rule, people come to a strip club with friends or girls. The latter sometimes get drunk and start kissing - one of them literally had to be pulled away from one of the girls. And I understand why many people like striptease. Dating a prostitute is somehow awkward, but dating a stripper everything seems natural. She spun around - you got excited - you can have sex.
Insurance until 23:00
I worked in striptease for six months and did not earn the promised three hundred thousand rubles (only the top girls collected that much). In fact, it came out to forty to sixty thousand rubles a month for four working days a week. It was hard both physically and mentally: wearing heels and an ugly dress, putting on stupid makeup and burning my hair again with a curling iron (they weren’t allowed to see guests without a hairstyle). According to internal prices, hair styling and makeup cost eight hundred rubles, manicure and pedicure were paid separately. At the same time, there were days when the earnings were small: one private or a thousand rubles for tea. There was also compulsory insurance of 1,500 rubles (a guaranteed payment from the club to those who were unable to earn money on tips and privates) if you went to the gym before 23:00. If not, you don’t get this money.
My entire group at the university found out about my work - all my friends at the faculty turned their backs on me, there was terrible gossip. But I had money, and it’s much easier to be sad with it than without it. I was also tracked by men in social networks and wrote about my work to everyone they knew.
I would not advise anyone to take such a job. I was uncomfortable and I don't remember any girls who liked being a stripper. There were ladies who loved to dance on the pole, but they also didn’t want to undress in front of a hundred men, each of whom despises you. There is no talk of any admiration from the guests in the striptease.
Strip clubs are bad. They propose a model in which men can only feel like “real men” if women grovel before them and fulfill their every desire. Some people say that it doesn’t go beyond the club, but that’s not true. Power is intoxicating, and a person, leaving the club, treats all women derogatorily. In an ideal world, strip clubs wouldn't exist.
Favorite shoes
Besides, you can’t earn much in striptease - it’s much more profitable to meet men one on one, which is what I did in parallel with working in the club. I was very tired: on rare weekends I lay flat, everything hurt and sometimes I couldn’t go outside. Now I'm in the sex business. While working as a stripper, I had a friend who owned her own brothel and massage parlor - she offered to go to her and get more. That's what happened in the end. I left the striptease with a scandal - they didn’t want to give me my earnings for the night. It’s just a pity that my favorite shoes were left at the club.
Someday I will leave sex work completely, but probably not earlier than in seven to ten years. You need to take advantage of your youth, no matter how terrible it may sound. My parents earn very little, and when they retire they will earn even less. And I consider it my duty to help them: send them on vacation, make pleasant purchases. By the way, I took a break when I married one of my clients. True, this did not lead to anything good, our marriage broke up, and now I am working again.