The definition of sexual harrassment is surely very different at a strip club compared to a ‘normal’ workplace. While the business of a strip club is not selling actual sex (depending on how you define sex), it’s pretty close to it, so it’s impossible to have a sexless workplace. We flirt for a living, and often that flirting happens between the dancers as well as between the dancer and the customer. In fact, flirting between dancers is often used as a technique to get a customer to part with their money.The smacking of arses happens on a regular basis. As does the touching of other girls’ breasts. As does the stroking of bodies and the pressing together of breasts. You get the point. Much of this is a performance for the customer, but for me, I’ll generally only touch a dancer whom I actually like if it means it’s going to make us money. And I’ll make reasons to touch a dancer who I /really/ like.

Sex talk in the change rooms is rampant. If no one mentions sex while we’re all getting ready, it’s a rare thing and we wonder what’s going on with the general mood of the place.If this culture was brought into a normal workplace, especially with how politically correct everything seems to be these days, there would be so many allegations of sexual harrassment it would tie up the courts to the end of the Earth.

The sexuality between workers at the club, however, is a different kind. I’m sure it still happens that someone may make someone else uncomfortable with their sexual advances, but in a club where the relationships are healthy and there’s respect between workers, the flirting and the touching and the playing is fun. It’s something that I actually enjoy.In my club, at least so far, I’ve seen no lack of respect in the sexual play that happens. Perhaps our western society would be less sexually repressed if people were more free with each other—respectfully, of course. It’s a freedom that I wish more people could enjoy.