No Sex in The Champagne Room?

What would be the point then?  The girls are rubbing up against the Johns on the floor during their lap dances enough to get them off, so what's left to do in the rooms besides sex? Besides drugs?

Those are the two most popular room activities: sex and drugs.  They're the promises that lure the men into the private areas for massive amounts of money. I immediately think of some close, clean stripper friends of mine. One insists on going in to rooms with coke heads because they can't get aroused, she says, and they just sit and talk all night. I have a hard time believing you can do this without partaking in the blow. My other friend doesn't get into the drug hustle.  She just dances, no touching, but she has to work almost every day and all night. Drunk. Her rooms are rarely renewed for additional time, because she's lucky to trap them for whatever they initially decide.  And nine times out of ten he's going to leave frustrated. Every now and again one might fall for her and come back, become somewhat regular- but those guys take a lot of time and energy outside of the club to maintain, i.e. texting and dinners. 

When I started my first strip club shift I remember assuming that the dancers who worked every night, the girls who moved around the room a lot from man to man, must be more crazy. It's so intense! Do they like it? Are they spending their money on drugs, and that's forcing them back every night? Aren't strippers supposed to have lots of free time? She works as much as I do. Then I learned the truth. The girls who show up sparingly and sit calmly at the bar when they do, they're more likely crazy. The money is even faster and the attitude is more lax when you're a high end Manhattan hooker. That kind of girl waits for that one guy to make their night - she could've set it up already. Bang. Big money. Or if she hasn't made 'a date', she knows that she's in a place where men with too much money and a buzz on are going to eventually come... pun intended.  She's willing to give them that, and for that the men will be willing to pay. It only takes one. A straight up stripper has to work for it- one by one by one. House fees are high (the cost to be an 'independent contractor', or dancer, in a club), and you don't want to get naked only to break even, so if you're only dancing then time (or songs) are money. Go go go. 'No I won't suck your dick, gimme 20 for the dance, NEXT!'

Another shift passes.