Stripping
The 3 Women That Visit Strip Clubs
0These are merely my observations. I don’t mean to “slut shame” anyone or sound discriminating.
1. The Insecure Girlfriend That Wants To Be “Cool”
The dancers know who I’m talking about. This is the girl that comes in with her boyfriend because he wanted to go. She doesn’t want to say no because she doesn’t want to seem controlling. She may also just want to keep an eye on him. They may come with or without his friends. She sits at a table with her arms crossed, looking incredibly nervous. When a dancer speaks to her or tries to get her to loosen up, she blushes and turns away. She isn’t necessarily rude, overtly judgmental, or catty. She either doesn’t speak up when a dancer takes a dollar off of her or lifts her shirt, or she refuses to partake in any shenanigans.
2. The Bitchy “Strippers Are Sluts” Girl
She’s always there with a group, usually on a Friday or Saturday night or a drinking holiday. She orders a drink and stands with a group of girls, occasionally turning around to look at the girl on stage and whisper about her, just like junior high. She’s the jealous, insecure type, but she’d never let you know it. She’s very catty, obviously judgmental, and thinks she is better than the dancers. This is the same type of girl that may compete with the dancers by grinding on guys in her group. She’s also prone to drunken dancing like a moron with her girlfriends. These are the girls that also may come with their significant other in order to supervise him.
3. The Cool Bi-Curious or Openly Bi Girlfriend (Or Single Girl) There To Have Fun
My favorite type of girl. These are the girls sitting at the stage, tipping, encouraging the dancers, and putting dollars on their friends. They’re fun, they buy dances, and they ask good questions. They are impressed by pole tricks. They love to either get double dances with their significant other or buy dances for him/her. They cheer and clap for the girls. They aren’t judgmental or catty.
Tax Tips for Strippers and Cam Girls by Kevin Bachhuber
0Kevin Bachhuber is a financial professional licensed to sell insurance and securities products in the state of Wisconsin.
Note: I am not a licensed tax professional, so my suggestions should be taken as suggestions. Talk to a CPA or other tax professional for your specific situation.
Second Warning: I try to make this as interesting as possible. Unfortunately, it is difficult to make any conversation about tax deductions anything but dry. I apologize in advance.
So, when talking about taxes, the key idea is maximizing your tax deductions. There’s a fairly large set of IRS caselaw relating to strippers and how they can qualify their expenses for tax deduction. It’s an expensive business; why add a giant tax bill if you don’t have to?
Tax Tip 1: Talk to a CPA. Most of the rest of this article should be considered with the help of a Certified Public Accountant. They’ll be able to help figure out what applies to you, what doesn’t, how/when to pay your taxes, and more.
Tax Tip 2: Incorporate! Corporations are people, so why not be a corporation? Most dancers and camgirls are independent contractors, so they can readily take advantage of incorporating into a sole proprietorship business. There are a number of advantages: business expenses (more on that later) may be tax deductible through the business, you can pay taxes quarterly, and you can provide yourself employee benefits.
Providing employee benefits (to yourself) can lower your tax bill significantly. The IRS has set up specific types of retirement accounts called Solo 401(k) plans that allow you to put up to $50,000 per year towards retirement. Depending on how you set up this account, that whole amount may be tax-deferred (meaning you don’t pay taxes until you withdraw the money during retirement). Additionally, you may be able to deduct the cost of premiums for any health insurance or disability insurance you provide for yourself.
You can register your business and get an Employee Identification Number here. Whether you incorporate into a sole proprietorship, LLC, S Corporation, or C Corporation will depend on your individual needs, and the incorporation process will depend on your state.
Tax Tip 3: Know what you can and cannot deduct. It’s incredibly expensive to be a stripper or a camgirl. You can use these business expenses to lower your taxable income. The most common tax deductions a stripper or camgirl may be able to claim include:
- Work clothes. The IRS defines work clothes as something you purchase specifically for your job that you cannot wear outside of work. Most of your outfits, costumes, and shoes probably qualify. Hair, makeup, and nails are a little more questionable due to a set of archaic IRS definitions.
- Travel and lodging: If you travel between clubs, or as part of a national circuit, you may be able to deduct the mileage and any hotel stays from your taxes. The IRS specifies that it has to be traveling from place of work to place of work, not from your home to your place of work.
- Computer and webcams: If you’re a camgirl, your computer and webcam are considered business expenses.
- Breast implants/augmentation: This one can be a little tricky. Chesty Love was the first stripper who successfully argued that her breast implants were business expenses. She was also able to show that her income quadrupled, the breasts were too big for personal use, and she would be removing them when she retired from stripping. If you can show a significant increase in income after the procedure, it may be deductible for you. (Source)
- Housing: If you run a business from your home, and you have a specified area of it you use for work, you may be able to claim a percentage of your rent/mortgage and utilities as business expenses. It’s neat; a CPA can tell you more.
- Club fees, cam fees, and other expenses: This is one of the hardest sets of deductions for most dancers to pull off, but it can be worth your while. Between entrance fees, paying the barstaff, cuts taken from lap dances, and other fees imposed by the club, many strippers will pay about ⅓ of their earnings right back to the strip club. Likewise, everybody takes a cut in the webcamming process. If you can keep records of how much you pay to the club or website, you may be able to deduct those fees.
Tax Tip 4: Keep the best records you can. I know most strip club owners are not exactly willing to provide you with records of when you’ve worked or how much you pay in club fees. Keep records of the days you worked, how much you paid in different types of fees, and how much you made. It’ll not only help you with your taxes, it’ll give you an idea of what your business cashflow is like, and data to support or disprove your assumptions. Strip and Grow Rich offers a really great inexpensive notebook you can purchase to help you keep track of this – here’s a link to purchase it.
Tax Tip 5: Donate to charity. And get receipts. Donations to charity are an awesome tax deduction. You get to help the larger community and reduce your tax bill at the same time. I’ll give a shout-out for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. They do a LOT of work for the benefit of the fetish, kink, and otherwise sexually awesome communities.
One more note on charitable donations: I’d recommend checking the charities you donate to with Charity Watch first. Make sure your money is being used to help people or causes, rather than paying too much to the leaders of the charity. Check out http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html.
Rebecca Avalon of Strip and Grow Rich also did a video on how to file taxes. You can check it out on her website.
Kevin Bachhuber is a fetishist and a financial services professional in Madison, Wisconsin. You can follow him on Twitter, LinkedIn, and find his business website here. Kevin can help you with financial planning and retirement services, like estate planning, life insurance, annuities, charitable giving, business insurance, executive compensation, and employee benefits.
Working at Cruisin’ Chubby’s
0This past Saturday, I worked up at Chubby’s in Wisconsin Dells. I don’t think I’ve had so much fun working since I first started stripping! Everyone there is great- the managers, the other girls, the bouncers, and the patrons. Everyone was there to have fun and very few of the patrons were rude in any way, which (sadly) is becoming a more frequent occurrence here in Madison. The managers are all very helpful when it comes to selling champagne rooms, dances, and shower shows. There is no favoritism, or at least, none that I witnessed. I’m so used to seeing the same couple girls do bachelor party stage shows.
There are three stages- two on the main floor and one small stage upstairs in the VIP lounge. We are on stage for at least a half hour at a time, so by the end of the night I was exhausted. The dressing room is really nice, and there’s a microwave and a bathroom with a bathtub. For traveling dancers, I believe they have dorm-like rooms for you to stay in for a nominal fee. Plus, the house fees are really, really reasonable considering the money to be made. They’ve really covered all the bases.
The club is run very professionally and in a respectful way meant to make the girls money. The club allows more than one guy in the shower shows and champagne rooms, so the guys split the cost. Champagne rooms and shower shows are sold frequently.
So guys, if you want to come see me dance, I’ll be working at Chubby’s a lot this summer. You can always check my website to see my schedule. It’s in the right-hand margin on the first page. This week I will be dancing in New Orleans, but I’ll be back there next week on Friday and Saturday, possibly more during the week if my knee allows me to.
Kudos to Chubby’s for knowing how to run a club the right way! It’s fun and lucrative for the girls and a ton of fun for the guys! I hope to see some of my Chicago fans there this summer!
New Wishlist
0I’m working on creating my burlesque wardrobe, so I created a new wishlist using Wishlistr.com! This list is for things that you can’t purchase on Amazon. They’re also more high-end, and consequently a little more expensive, but totally worth it! I’m working on joining a burlesque troupe here in Madison. I’m also looking into feature dancing school. Really, it’s just an excuse to travel.
If you want to help me build my burlesque wardrobe, you can purchase whatever you’d like to see me wearing. Anything you buy for me comes with a handwritten thank you card (if you’d like me to send it back to you, that is!), a custom photo set of me wearing your gift, and or course, a huge thank you from me!
The link to my wishlist is here. I don’t have a PO box because the post office nearest to me has none available. If you see something you like, you can have it shipped to my club. Make sure you address it to Domino Damoiselle!
Domino Damoiselle
c/o Silk Exotic Madison
7302 U.S. 14
Middleton, WI 53562
My Makeup Addiction
0Hi, my name is Domino, and I have a makeup addiction. I’m not as bad as some girls, but I buy a ton of makeup. I even accept Sephora eGiftcards as payment for cam shows. The people at MAC and Sephora know me by name. On any given day, I have on primer, concealer, foundation, eyeshadow primer, eyeliner, eyelash primer, mascara, eyeshadow, blush, eyebrow gel, lip primer, lip pencil, lipstick, lip gloss, and bronzing powder. It’s kind of ironic that usually, we wear makeup to make it look like we aren’t wearing makeup.
As both a dancer and a camgirl, a ton of effort goes into my appearance. First, I have to decide what colors and kinds of makeup I want to wear. Usually, I stick to neutral tones or smoky eyes on weeknights, because middle-aged men tend to come in those nights, and most of them aren’t into freaky eye makeup. Bright colors are reserved for Fridays, Saturdays, and special holidays, like St. Patrick’s Day. The whole process of applying my makeup takes about 5-10 minutes on a weeknight and about 20 on a Friday or Saturday.
I don’t think a lot of the guys really understand a woman’s lust for makeup. We feel about makeup the way many men feel about porn. Of course, there are always us girls who love our porn, too. So, purveyors of strip clubs and cam shows, next time you notice that a girl looks amazing, compliment her! We look amazing because we love to spend money on makeup just for you.
For the ladies reading that don’t want to invest a ton of money into expensive makeup, check out these brands: ELF (available at Target), Coastal Scents (their 88 color palettes are about $20) and Wet n Wild (aptly named!). Please forgive my mess in the pictures! Also forgive the horrible photo taking. I never said I was a good photographer!
Chubby’s This Weekend
0I just wanted to let you guys know that I’ll be dancing at Cruisin’ Chubby’s in Wisconsin Dells this Saturday, April 7th! I believe they open at 5PM. Bring your dollar bills and be prepared to throw them on me!
I’ll be available for champagne rooms and private dances. Champagne rooms are $320 for every half hour, and private dances are $40 each. Look for the girl with bright red hair wearing the purple corset!!
Stripper Clothes and Shoes For Sale
0I’m overwhelmed with dancer clothes that I’ve been accumulating for the last few years. Some of it used to fit me, some I bought but never wore, and some no longer fits me. If you see something you like, shoot me an email and make me an offer. All of my stuff’s in good shape and I’m willing to let it go for cheap just to make room for the stuff I actually use. You can email me at domino@dominoxxx.com. I can take cash if you work at my club or you can pay with a credit or debit card in person at the club. If you live too far away for that, I’d gladly take a Sephora, Amazon, or Lush eGiftcard. If that’s not an option, you can send me a money order. Dancers or camgirls only, please.
This Week
0This week has kind of sucked.
I’d planned on working at Silk four days in a row, but that didn’t happen. Wednesday, I was feeling lazy. I spent part of Thursday night in the emergency room because my leg and foot suddenly started swelling and tingling. I was diagnosed with parasthesia, which is kind of a garbage diagnosis. Thanks for telling me what I already knew. I’m still not sure what caused it, but it may be a sign of an autoimmune disorder. It also may be related to my knee. I have a lateral tear in my meniscus. For those of you that follow me closely, you know that I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachychardia Syndrome. I try to educate people about these whenever I can. Anyway, I feel a lot better today – no tingliness or swelling in my left foot today, so I’m heading to Silk Madison tonight. Come out and see me!
Again, another huge thanks to the person that bought me the Pleaser stripper heels I wanted – it was a really nice gift to find after the emergency room!
New Shoes?!
1Seriously guys, who bought me these off my Amazon wishlist? Normally I can figure it out, but not this time. Whoever you are, random shoe purchaser, I salute you! Thank you so much! They were really expensive and it’s so appreciated!
Strip Club Etiquette
0The first time I went to a strip club (Outer Limits in Madison, when I was considering a career as a stripper) I had no idea how to act. I didn’t want to be rude, and I wanted to be aware of the norms. The purpose of this post is to educate the strip club-going guys about how to act in a club. Please keep in mind that this is written based on my perception of the standards at my club here in Madison; every club is different, and obviously every girl is different.
Keep in mind the dancers are there to work. Don’t be offended when we try to sell you a dance, champagne room, or ask for a tip while we are sitting with you. You wouldn’t want to work for free, so please don’t be offended when we don’t. You’re in a strip club, so you have to expect to spend money. If you don’t expect to drop some money, whether it’s tipping the girls or buying dances, don’t bother coming in. Go to a normal bar, seriously.
Lap Dance Etiquette:
- Keep your hands to yourself. We love it when we don’t have to hold your hands down ourselves.
- Nipples are off limits. Don’t try to suck them. We hate having to dodge nipple suckers. We aren’t in an adult nursing relationship with you.
- Don’t try to kiss us. Anywhere.
- You can compliment us, that’s always nice.
- Don’t try to talk dirty to us or tell us how much you want to fuck us.
- Don’t move us onto the area of your pants where your cock is. We know what you’re trying to do.
- Don’t tell us to grind more.
- Please don’t cum in your pants.
We know that not every guy is there to buy dances. Some guys don’t even like strip clubs, but were invited to the bachelor party. If you absolutely cannot enjoy yourself one bit, don’t come to the club. Seriously. If you aren’t big on buying dances, you don’t have to. But do expect to spend some money tipping the girls that sit with you.
Turning Down a Dance:
Scenario 1: A dancer comes up to you and chats with you. You find out a little bit about her and where she’s from. You don’t want to buy a dance, but you’ve genuinely enjoyed chatting with her. When she says “So, you’re ready for a dance now, aren’t you?”, simply say “I don’t do dances, but I have enjoyed talking with you. Let me tip you for your time” or something to that effect. Most of the time, she will appreciate your honesty and the tip.
Scenario 2: When a girl comes up to you, you can always tell her straight away “I don’t want to waste your time, so I want to let you know that I don’t buy dances, but I will give you $5 to talk with me for a few minutes.”
Scenario 3: You’re with a bachelor party. A girl that you know the best man and/or groom or other member of the bridal party would like comes up to you. Tell her “I know (point) that guy over there would really love a dance from you. Let me buy him one from you.”
Scenario 4: A dancer comes up to talk with you. You do not find her attractive at all or she’s very abrasive. Tell her “I’m waiting for (point at a girl that’s busy with a customer) that girl over there to finish up with him” and hopefully she will take the hint. This way you’re avoiding rudeness.
Tipping:
I’ve written about this before, and at the suggestion of a few other dancers, I’d like to add some things.
- If you’ve bought her a drink, tip her a couple dollars on top of it if you’re not going to buy a dance.
- Always tip the dancer that makes fun of the alpha male of your group. You know you love to see that.
- If she’s been sitting with you for at least a song.
- If you don’t offer to buy her a drink, at least tip her a dollar or two.
- If she gave you a good lap dance, tip her as much as you can!
- If she’s capable of having a decent conversation with you, tip her!
- If there’s a girl that sat to chat with you for a while, but she gets called to stage, go tip her during her set!
- If she made you laugh, tip her!
- If she does stripper tricks for you and your friends.
- If you’re not going to buy a dance, tip her a dollar or two.
- ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS TIP WHEN YOU’RE SITTING AT THE STAGE!
- Again, always tip if you’re sitting at the stage.
- Don’t touch dollar bills to our pussies.
- Don’t touch us.
- If a girl doesn’t take dollars with her mouth, respect that, don’t be offended.
- Don’t ask derogatory or insulting questions or talk badly about the girl on the stage.
- If you’re not attracted to the girl on stage, get up and go to the bar until her set is over.
- If you buy a dance from another girl while you’re sitting at stage, leave the girl on stage a dollar or two.
- We love it when guys make it rain!
- If you bring your female friend/wife/fiancee/girlfriend, let her know that it’s not OK to touch us just because she’s a girl.
- Loud hooting and hollering is unnecessary.
- If your significant other doesn’t feel comfortable coming, don’t force her.
- If you’re with one of the jealous types, spare us all and don’t come to the club.
- Don’t bring a girl that’s going to compete with us. If she’s giving guys lap dances on the floor, she should come in on Sunday for Amateur Night. This tends to be the type of girl that talks badly about strippers because she’s “better” than we are. Remind her that we actually get paid for pretending to be slutty, she’s just acting like a slut for attention.
- If your significant other is bi-curious, buy her a dance from the girl she’s most attracted to.
- Don’t try to get us to have a threesome with you.
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