This Wednesday, I went to a strip club. Well, more like got dragged there by two of my friends. I broke a 16-month dry spell recently, and I’m still at the tail end of the high. So a strip club felt laughably redundant. Not to mention I hate the notion of paying to be teased. (Of course, paying to not be teased is illegal in the US, and that’s whole other discussion topic.) But the strip club had free bar food and cheap drinks, so I said “eh, screw it!” and agreed to come along.
Like any other red-blooded pheromone user, I saw it as a perfect opportunity to phero-bomb the girls working there and see how they react. I picked the application points strategically. Since most dancers press guys’ heads into their cleavage, or stand directly in front, my pheromones should hit them right in their nose. I used the following:
MX353 - 3 sprays on front of neck
MX297 - 2 sprays on sides of neck, 1 each
P131 - 2 sprays on temples, 1 each
The resulting hits were… interesting. I got highly unbalanced reactions from different types of employees in the strip club, even though their jobs weren’t dramatically different. So here are my findings.
Self
Nothing I really noticed.
Friends
Demographics: early 30’s, Caucasian (both of them)
I think the -none in MX353 caused mild aggression in them, and MX297 didn’t buffer it at all. They started poking fun at me, and making stupid jokes, followed by laughing in unison. I did my best to treat their actions as a harmless nuisance, and react accordingly. That was mostly in the car. Inside they club, they were too focused on the dancers to worry about challenging my -none vibe.
Bouncer
Demographics: early 30’s, African American
He broke into a smile the second he saw me, and acted very friendly and even complimentary with me. In my experience, it’s quite uncommon to see a strip club bouncer acting like that. He even suggested good seats. I joked back in a friendly way, handed him the cover charge, and went inside.
Dancers
Demographics: early 20’s to late 20’s, all ethnicities
Since I got dragged to the strip club against my will, and don’t even like the idea of lap dances (unless my girlfriend gives me one), I just sat at my seat, and enjoyed the beers and the free food. The dancers were totally ghosting me. A smile is the most I’d get. Don’t get me wrong. I smiled. I was polite to them, like saying “excuse me” when trying to get past them. But for the most part, I was reacting to them the way most adults react to pigeons on city streets. Pretty much, ghosting them back.
Only one dancer approached me specifically, and she was onstage when I sat there to get closer look at her (and tipped, obviously). I ended up politely declining the private dance. She’s the one who asked me: “What’s that cologne?” I told her it was an experimental product I can’t disclose, that I got as part of a research study.
My non-pheromone-wearing friends, by contrast, were getting jumped on constantly. Each of them bought at least one dance. They knew I broke my dry spell, and laughed slightly at my lack of reaction to the dancers.
Shots girls
Demographics: early 20’s, mostly Caucasian
They were the total opposite of the dancers. The shots girls were targeting me constantly, even noticeably more than my friends. While selling their shots, they’d get really physical with me, by rubbing my arms, touching my back, side-hugging me, etc. My friends just got a hand on the shoulder with most of them. The shots girls seemed to have sweeter, more bubbly personalities than the dancers. I’m well aware it all could have been an act, but hey. The only reason I gave them a mild ghost treatment (like not making eye contact when they walked by), is because those shots are always weak, and I didn’t want to keep turning down girl after girl.
No, actually, I did buy a shot once, from a girl who was rubbing her hair against me, and side-hugged me nicely enough to suspend disbelief that it was just hustling on her part. Or hopefully, actual P131 hits.
I think I liked the shots girls better than the dancers. I felt like I had more leeway to flirt with them, mostly verbally, but also physically to a small extent. Or maybe because I like shots but don’t like lap dances.
Questions
The divide between the dancers and the shots girls was quite interesting. I wonder what caused it. Feel free to comment on anything you wish, but I have the following questions in particular.
- Why did my friends react somewhat aggressively to the androstenone on me, while the bouncer (a job requiring some aggression by default) was very respectful? What stopped him from acting like a stereotypical bouncer?
- Did the dancers somehow tell from my body language that I got laid recently, and would therefore be really difficult to sell a dance to? Are they seeking out guys who have not been recently laid?
- Were the shots girl more bubbly by nature of their job, or were they responding better to me because I was responding better to them? Were my pheromones having any influence on their actions?
- Counting only job-related reasons, why were the shots girls more personable than the dancers? After all, they’re only selling drinks, while the dancers are supposed to sell an illusion of intimacy.
- How come my non-pheromone-wearing friends were getting reactions opposite of mine: strong attention from dancers, and only low-level flirting from shots girls? One meets girls easily; the other does not.
Future suggestions
I’m still not too keen on the tease factor of strip clubs, but those shots girls were just adorable. So I’m no longer opposed to going back to this particular club just to joke around and flirt with them. (And the free food, of course.) I’ll buy a shot or two, as not to be a time-waster. What pheromones would you recommend getting for that purpose?
