Way back in the 80’s the “strippers” were required in some areas to have an Agent that represented them at least as the story went. The truth was that they didn’t really need one but there was a guy that would be more than glad to take a cut of their earnings. The whole agent thing worked out for the club and solved a lot of the problems they had or at least got the girls in the door and on the stage.
Stripclubs have gone through a lot of change since the 80’s in the way of presentation and reputation. In the old days, the “bars” didn’t look that great and weren’t too appealing to passer buyers and especially girls looking for work. The places looked seedy and there was no reputation that a “Stripper” could make millions like today. Some counties required the “Strippers” to get a license and that was a process that sometimes was difficult to get done and that was the first part of the bar’s problem. The second part was keeping them interested and getting them to work on a regular basis.
Getting a “Stripper” license often requires a visit to the clerk’s office, and then to the police department, and then back to the clerk’s department with various fees along the way. The agent usually drives them and walks them through the process. Since this costs about $200 there are “who pays for it” games between everybody, but usually, the new “stripper” gets stuck with the bill, and either way, the strip club they go to will take their license and hold it, especially if they paid for it. This is also so when the cops stop by and check licenses they have them.
More importantly, the “agents” would handle the recruiting of girls and turning them into strippers. Not everybody wakes up one day and says to themselves, I think I’ll go suck a few dozen dicks every week for the next few years and let a bunch of assholes treat me like shit while I do it. There aren’t too many people running out for that one. They need to be solicited, encouraged, trained and recruited. Even better these days the agents are used to give the strip club a little fighting room when it comes to the federal definition of sex trafficking.
The term “sex trafficking” means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. link The agent relieves the strip club from the recruitment, provisioning, and obtaining a person portion thereby simply becoming the place that an independent contractor works as provided by and sometimes trained by an agent. The strip club can now argue that even though she was busted sucking a dick, the bar has a strict no-sex and drugs policy, and the person signed off on it. The strip club has not committed or participated in “sex trafficking” so the game goes on.
I’m going to be a bit vague here because I don’t want to help anyone do this. Agent’s recruit by targeting people and in most cases using other people to assist them. for example, an agent will go to a popular bar with other people and they act like they are rich. As conversations come up they turn to, would you like to be a waitress or shot girl and make millions of dollars like us? They never have to dance but they can. wink wink 🙂 Little do they know those shot girls barely make any money, end up drunk at the end of the night most of the time, and end up doing “dances” with a customer to make a few bucks only to cause a lot of drama and to be told if they want to do that, they have to be a “stripper”. Since they are now comfortable, to say the least, in the club, it’s an option that works.
The agent is paid by the strip club in a variety of ways. This really varies from club to club and every owner has their own ideas. again, being vague here, the club may pay the agent anything from a per appearance fee to a monthly salary for lack of a better term. In return, the agent provides “proof of employment letters” and health insurance, encourages them, but more than anything they make sure they are getting to work on time. This can be an impossible task even for the best of agents and again this just removes liability and the need to manage the people that fall for this kind of stuff.
It should be no news to anybody that these days agents use social media as a recruiting tool. Today they can work in groups, and just like the big media companies, find ways to target people to get them into the business. I’m going to be vague here again but it’s basically the same thing. Get them to think they can make millions of dollars, get them to work, take their money for the services they don’t really need, and reuse their content to attract new people.
The last type of agent I’m going to write about is the one that empowers the “make millions easy” dream. These folks simply offer the new shot girl, waitress, or stripper a large sum of money for a short sex act that nobody will ever know about. This is the most cost-effective when the shot girl or waitress is not allowed to use the VIP areas, or in the case of the stripper, at the end of the day shift when they don’t have time to. Regardless of the method, the person goes on to believe that they can “make a million dollars easy!” and a “stripper” is born.