“Going to jail for trafficking cocaine actually made me a happier person. I was way angrier before that happened. I didn’t like people. I didn’t want people talking to me. I didn’t want people touching me. Inside jail I learned that you don’t have family and you don’t have real friends because none of them is ever going to be there for you.”

Hardly a day goes by without someone asking me how much money the strippers make. The whole subject of stripper money takes on myth-like proportions reaching the urban legend category.

Some strip clubs know how to create a platform to maximize a girls’ earning potential. What you are about to learn can run contrary to what some other club owners believe. Nevertheless, my feeling is that the more a stripper takes home the better. Sure, it’s great for the dancer but it’s even better for the club owner simply because it brings popular and satisfied entertainers back into the club night after night.

There are as many different formulas for extracting money from the dancers as there are strip clubs. Every club owner has his own notion of what works best for his business. One thing that most strip club owners have in common is their belief that each dancer should pay her own way by compensating the club for the business opportunity. That is, no stripper leaves the premises without devoting a portion of the money she picks up to the strip club. After all, most owners agree, the strippers will not have a forum on which they can preach if not for the strip clubs.

First, the owner provides a safe and secure location at which a stripper can ply her trade. He offers a steady and reliable venue for patrons to visit and therefore brings together both the buyer and seller in a trustworthy business environment; something very similar to what the Internet giant, eBay, does for its’ trading customers.

EBay certainly deserves some income for setting up and maintaining a worldwide trading place. Yet, seldom does a week go by without me personally listening to a stripper rant and rave about the injustice of strip clubs retaining a portion of their money.

I never hear a mature, experienced, professional stripper complain about the club taking a small portion of her nightly earnings. The skilled girls clearly understand the partnership concept and even though they may be reluctant to give up a percentage of their earnings, they go along with the program without protest.

It’s usually the younger, more beautiful strippers taking home thousands of dollars nightly who register their annoyance with me. It never fails to amaze me when a very young girl without any formal training or education, unable to earn much more than minimum wage in any other job, will complain about paying a relatively small fee to the business that creates the opportunity for her to take home that thousands of dollars night after night.

Over the years, I’ve experimented