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once our boss and he ruled with an iron fist. Seriously, the dude was
whack, but the money was so good that the guys put up with his shit.
    Even though he totally bombs onstage every night and is
laughed at, he still tries to convince everyone he is the best. He even gives
girls his own money and tells them to give it back to him onstage so it looks as
if the crowd likes him. Karma has definitely gotten the best of this guy. He
used to date hot, hot girls but now is a mere joke. He is the perfect example
of why you have to have a Plan B. Looks fade.
    There was a man who was more than eighty years old, went by
the name Disco Frankie. He was on a talk show about being the oldest male
stripper. Even this old dude, who was clearly a comedy routine at the start of
the show, thought he was gonna get laid. He really worked the floor and was
working his angle. You go, Frankie! R.I.P.
    Twice-Retired Old Guy Who Keeps Coming Back : Similar
to the Too Damn Old Guy, he uses the same acts, music and dance moves from a
decade or two ago, has the same old-school costumes, same knee-high, white
leather boots, and can’t figure out why he is not as successful as he once was.
    Balding Dancer : There was a dancer who had a toupee. Before
that, when he was thinning on top, he used the head paint stuff. Literally, you
cover your scalp with special paint. It’s supposed to make your hair look
thicker. In Texas, in the dead of summer, he had a strip-o-gram at an outdoor
pool area. When he got back to the club, his forehead was covered with this
black paint mixed with sweat! He didn’t even realize it until we told him.
     
     
     
     

     
    Justin
and Taylor with EC author Koko Brown

Chapter Four: Earning a Living
     
    When you first get into the biz, money is hard to make. There
is a weeding-out process that only the strong survive. Some guys start out as
waiters first. This helps because it enables them to build a client base. If
you have that, the first few months are much, much easier.
    As the movie Magic Mike says, we do it for money,
chicks and a good time! However, the beginning is not anything like that. When
you start, it’s so hard to make money that most guys have to supplement their
income with other work. Some are lucky and are able to do some modeling or film
work. Some are in magazines as well. Until you’re famous, none of these things
make you much money. Some guys have to resort to working at a gay bar to make
extra cash because gay bars pay a shift fee of usually sixty to a hundred
dollars, in addition to tips for a three-hour shift, where pretty much all you
do is stand on a box. No table dancing allowed.
    On a slow night at a ladies’ club, you might actually lose
money working that night after tipping out. Tipping out means paying the stage
coordinator a tip of at least ten dollars and the DJ a tip of twelve to
twenty-five dollars. So financially, you might have to work at a gay bar for a
time to make ends meet until you get regulars at another club and can quit.
    Most guys have stripper girlfriends. For one thing, it’s
easier to date someone in the same business who has the same hours. Plus, they
make a lot of money! The average male stripper makes less than fifty thousand
dollars a year. The average female stripper makes seventy-five thousand easily,
and the hottest ones make well into six figures. Sometimes, when a guy’s chick
makes so much, he will float in and out of the club because he has less
incentive to make money.
    The club is the main source of income. Open four to five
days per week, this is where the guys really hone their skills. Main stage,
side stage, stage act, table dances and selling merchandise—these are the ways
we make our money in the club. We used to refer to the side stages as the meat
rack. It was funny. Sometimes we watched the girls point to each guy to figure
out which one they wanted to get a lap dance from.
    The stripper/customer relationship is formed at the club.
Some guys will go