Comments on: Today in Questionable Strip Club Advertising: Recruiting High Schoolers

By: Gwyndolyn

Gwyndolyn — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:33:09 +0000

Hey! Who says Reddit readers aren’t potential strippers? 😉

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:58:34 +0000

In reply to Lilly Muse. Totally agree! I think it's funny, especially considering the bad publicity they've just had. Like, "hey, we said we're looking for high school graduates now, not underage girls."

By: Lilly Muse

Lilly Muse — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:58:26 +0000

I see this more as them being cheeky, perhaps a play on their recent trouble. Also, it’s possible that they’re referring to a graduating college class, kind of clever considering no one else is hiring college grads these days. And if none of that, I agree with Sex Mahoney in that if the military can set up shop in high schools, shamelessly recruiting our boys and girls to go off inciting widespread violence in the name of “Freedom,” then we should be able to handle a threat so nefarious as nipple tassels and AC/DC burnout.

By: Luna

Luna — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Even as a stripper myself, I feel like targeting high school kids for recruitment into sex work seems sketchy as fuck. Maybe it’s because I began “late” (at 25), and had way more confidence, maturity, job experience and life-skills built up than a 17/18 y.o. Not that it should be against the law or school-rules for of-age high-schoolers to strip or anything… I just think it’s a questionable strategy on the part of the club itself. Like, WHY target barely-legal girls? They’re not harder workers, better hustlers, better dancers or more confident than women just a few years older who’ve like, ever lived outside their parents’ house, and many customers are turned off by dancers who look or are very young, so it has nothing to do with finding girls who are more “appealing” to their customer base (especially if it’s an upscale club with an older clientele) . Is it because the clubs figure younger girls are more impressionable, insecure and easier to control? That they’ll put up with a lot and go far for what seems like a “lot” of money as the industry declines, since they’ve likely never had more than a couple minimum-wage summer jobs?

By: Cheo D

Cheo D — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:07:16 +0000

Ah, these must be those Job Creators I keep hearing about… Yeah, this was probably meant in a mocking manner. Couldn’t help but notice in the newspaper site the caption is “Oh, for God’s sake, just go work at Target”… I dunno, but I wonder which is the tougher gig.

By: ramblerinfinity

ramblerinfinity — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:46:16 +0000

When I saw the sign, I thought it was meant in a facetious way, to make passers-by remember the place. However, who am I to judge the intentions of strangers? I’d be a hypocrite if I said that high schoolers shouldn’t be stripping, but openly recruiting them does seem a little shady. If they were just looking for publicity, it seems to be working.

By: Sex Mahoney

Sex Mahoney — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:38:58 +0000

Given that the military is given space in schools to recruit underage students, I have no problem with strip clubs doing the same. At least the strippers aren’t being trained to kill… I hope.

Surprisingly, it also means that there will be a lower probability of sexual assault as a stripper than as a soldier: [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/06/panetta-gates-rumsfeld-face-new-suit-over-u-s-military-rape-epidemic.html]