For the guys who have worked as strippers or erotic dancers, I'm curious why you did it. Did you actually enjoy it or was it just for the money? Aren't there better ways to make money?
There's a bar in my area that has nude male dancers. When they are on stage they get a few bucks here and there. On busy nights, the best-looking guys do pretty well, but many of the guys don't seem to be getting much. On slow nights, which is most of the week except for Friday & Saturday, they're lucky if they get anything. They don't get paid and the club takes a cut of their tips. Most of them don't last for more than a few weeks. My guess is that the money isn't worth it.
Some of the patrons wave dollars in front of the dancers, but make them perform to get the money. As a paying customer, I understand wanting to get something for my money--I hate it when a dancer walks away as soon as you give him something (I'm not paying him to leave)--but some of the stuff the dancers do seems pretty degrading for just a couple of bucks.
For the dancers, the stage show is basically an "advertisement." The real goal is to give private dances, which costs $20 for 10 minutes. Naturally, the good dancers make the dance as erotic as possible so that you'll stay longer than 10 min. I've spent way too much money there. At the same time, I feel bad that I say "no" to 5 out of 6 dancers when they offer me a private dance. It's not that I don't want to, but I can't afford it. A good dancer can do pretty well on a busy night, but a lot of the guys don't seem to have much luck attracting customers, and I feel bad for them.
You can tell that some of the dancers don't enjoy what they're doing. Others put up a pretty good act, but one dancer that I got to know personally said that he hated it. He especially disliked giving private dances to men he found unattractive, which was almost all of the men he danced for. He only did it because he was a high school dropout with no job skills, and already had 3 kids at the age of 21. Also, I'd say that most of the dancers seem to be straight-identified, so even if they like the money and the attention, I can't imagine that they'd enjoy it very much.
I stopped going to this bar a while ago because having cute boys dance naked for you isn't as much fun when there's so much pressure to tip them. It's just so obvious that you have to pay them for their attention. Sometimes it's like feeding the squirrels. Once they learn you're good for it, they keep coming back begging for more. I rather wish the club paid the dancers so that a tip was just a tip (for being especially nice or a good performer). I think the dancers might relax and enjoy themselves more if they knew they were getting paid and it was just about the fun and freedom of dancing naked and showing off their hot bodies. If the tips were just a bonus, not their bread & butter, then they could choose for themselves how hard to work the crowd. As a customer I could enjoy it more if I could sit back, have a drink, enjoy the show, and not feel like I had to fork over dollar bills every few minutes to keep the show going.
This is the only club with nude dancers I've been to, so I'm curious how it differs from other such clubs.