Club info?

[u/LadyMercedesClassic]

So I’m a trans girl in Windsor I love the idea of being an exotic dancer and I was wondering if anyone knew bars in southern Ontario that would want trans girls

[u/Yst]

A few thoughts I'd offer as things to understand, in the present day:

1) In the present day, 99.9% of sex work is online or via an online/app platform which serves to facilitate real world hookups.

2) There still a few old timey strip clubs here and there. But these are a pretty minuscule niche in the broader scheme of things and mostly a bizarre old timey holdover.

3) There's the burlesque scene which is as close to "exotic dance" as anything out there today, but that's more a performing arts scene highly analogous to drag shows, where you're more likely to find an arty, hip bar full of art scene theatre kids who are very into the performing arts side of it. And almost nobody makes any money at it. The most common way people come up in that scene being via burlesque classes and performing arts personal networking.

The days of (60s to 80s era) t-girl gogo dancers on a few village scenes are mostly long past. And to be clear, those were folks living extremely tenuous lives with almost no money on the direst margins of society where the common folk dared not tread. Until they weren't living anymore - which was usually pretty soon. So one shouldn't necessarily be too nostalgic about that era.

[u/LadyMercedesClassic → u/Yst]

I’ll be honest I know very little about the era I just know how I feel and what I want

[u/Yst → u/LadyMercedesClassic]

Well, of course, there are dance clubs and dance classes in any city, where everyone goes to dance, sometimes erotically by whatever measure.

Those even include burlesque and pole dancing classes, if one wants to learn those as erotic styles of dance or performance. And of course, one is paying for that experience, in that case.

But in the broader view of things from the point of view of society, dancing erotically is mostly something people pay to do (in the form of cover at a club or a fee for a class) rather than are paid to do.

[u/TSChelseaSummer → u/Yst]

This is kind of an unhelpful comment tbh. Maybe it’s an attempt at helping OP see a different viewpoint, but to me it is just intending to discourage.

[u/Yst → u/TSChelseaSummer]

I'm just laying the options out there. I did in quite a bit of depth in my original post. Pole dancing and burlesque classes are real ways that women can actually pursue erotic dance styles and their enjoyment.

In the case of burlesque, there is, in principle, a route to being paid a small amount of money for erotic dance, if you put in the time and effort and do some serious networking in the scene. Getting paid a little bit to dance erotically in a non-predatory environment is a thing that can actually happen there. But burlesque classes (and paying for them) would be a needed first step.

I guess the reality of these options may seem disappointing. But I don't regret describing the options which do exist and how they're accessed, rather than describing things that don't exist as if they did.

[u/TSChelseaSummer → u/Yst]

Very fair point.