Yes! Totally.

That would be so expensive. It wasn't a strip club, it was a peep show with booths and mechanized windows and other features that prevent simply relocating to a bar with a stage. Considering that the show has been losing money for years, even if there had been a suitable location, it is doubtful there would have been…

I worked there and other clubs for years. I think it is problematic to try to assign one motivation to all customers. As far as how they feel about women being paid to spend time with them, some appreciate the upfront aspect of that, some just don't have the time for any social/romantic/sexual interactions, some are…

Yup.

This was my reaction as well. I stopped wearing make-up daily when I graduated early from high school and fled to the big city. Lip balm and sunscreen. That's it most days. That was twenty-five years ago. I'm forty-two now and while I might not get the amount of compliments I once did, I still get them. And I have a…

How the hell did I type "gauged" and not "gouged"? I've been touch typing for years. I wouldn't have thought having no eyeballs would be a hindrance.

Both reasons. The rent has been raised significantly just like the rest of San Francisco. You can read about that here: http://bit.ly/171ba9J But numbers have been declining for some time, most likely due to the ease and availability of internet porn.

Interesting. I guess I missed the nuanced understanding there what with already having gauged my eyeballs out by that point. Thanks for the clarification.

I was one of the original organizers. To some extent we were already a step ahead because we were defined as employees and paid a wage, as opposed to being defined, however inaccurately, as contract workers, which is how most clubs operate. The hourly wage kept us from being in too much competition with each other to…

One of the first things that impressed me (and also my father) about my ex was that he had a really extensive vocabulary about very complex scientific, philosophical and political ideas, yet many of the terms he pronounced incorrectly because he had actually learned them from reading books, as opposed to just…

I don't think they all do but this can happen. Which is why the tests warn you not to check results of tests that have sat longer than a certain amount of time (ten minutes? half an hour? I can't remember...)

I assume it was his subsequent behavior upon learning of her potential pregnancy that enlightened her to just how gross he was.

When I was in my early twenties in San Francisco, I knew two women who had suspicious/unlikely pregnancies who subsequently had very easy and seemingly emotionally uncomplicated miscarriages. Both were from New Jersey. All the guys we knew from NJ said this was a typical Jersey Girl MO to keep a boyfriend, fake a…

Thank you. Screw Diane Martel.

Oh, jesusfuckingchrist. That makes it worse. Here I thought the dancer was like,"Fuck you, internet! Don't you make assumptions about me. I'm no one's prop!" Which would miss the overall issue, of course, but she'd have a good point on an individual level.

Beautiful picture of Montgomery Clift. Who is Diane Martel? Was she the dancer that had got smacked? Does she resent being referred to all over the internet as a prop?

No kidding.

Thanks. I was so shocked I didn't scroll through the comments first. I'm so appalled. Bad enough to get the ice cream. Worse to photo yourselves. Even more disgusting to distribute the damn thing. BUT THEN TO HASH TAG #dadkilledit?? I don't even know how to respond to that. Makes me want to perma-coat her in brown…

I just typed a nearly identical post. Guess I should have scrolled down first. So disgusted.

Wait, who are those fucking people with the ice cream cones? Is that Zimmerman's family? With those hash tags?! WTF?!