First, thanks again to any real live human readers out there who have boosted the views-to-posts ratio on this all-text thread to 237:1. I've just come back from a kind of "belated Valentine" tour of the club, expensive but (for me anyway) historic. But first a word.
It is clear to me that it really matters if a club is run well. The girls need to know that they can rely on security and will be dealt with equitably. There will always be incidents and complaints and occasional rowdy customers, but so long as this is within the context of a tightly run ship, these are both infrequent and bearable. I recognize and respect that, and for my part I always prefer to play nice. Weirdly enough for a place with so much way-out-there nudity and humor, discretion matters.
Some men may not want that. They'd prefer some getaway, that is to say, some place where they can get away with anything. So they might prefer a club run more sloppily. Trouble is, I think they'll find a generally sadder crew of girls there. So it's a trade-off. Also, I've really only made myself a kind of an expert on one club. Club Exotica is still a big deal, and there's a new place calling itself Cheerleaders, trying to claim "We're not so sleazy" but basically repackaging the same situation, maybe with more of the non-erotic live entertainment, like in the olden days. But I'm a loyalist, if only because I've become loyal to my girls, and I even care a little about them.
So I'm not likely to go sharing this easily. I was very much looking forward to somehow getting together with fellow Pittsburgher berkovw, but I think he's had to close this particular chapter of his life right now. Still, there are others around here who I might extend an invitation to in a spirit of long-earned camaraderie -- and they're free to stop by and ask. But hitting this club is a very particular thing, with ladies I particularly like, so I would reserve a right to screen. Can just any of the thousands of members here assume I'll be their guide? No way. I prefer to share people I like with other people I like. There's no one here I really hate, but I do reserve the right to choose my friends.
Besides which, Give Me Corporations or Give Me Death, I would not consider myself a true expert on any kind of "Pittsburgh scene." There are many clubs to choose from, and I can't even vouch for all the women at the one club, if only because the "stable" is revolving all the time. Most lamentably, I've just learned that "Heidi" retires on June 4, and if you follow this thread all the way through you'll see that others have packed up and gone. You may, in short, do perfectly fine looking around on your own -- choosing your own kind of club, looking for your own kind of girl.
There are very few people, in life let alone clubs, of whom I can tell a girl "If you like me, you'll like him." My "brand" is a very specific thing and I nurture it seriously -- and when I finally do make my official report, I hope you will begin to see why.