Strip or nude club is an adult entertainment venue or a night club where stripteases or other erotic or exotic dances are regularly performed. A strip club is run like a night club or bar, but it can also adopt a theatre or cabaret form.
This kind of club, no doubt is gradually making its way into
many towns and cities in Nigeria and with increasing patronage by different
sets of people.
Efforts by various governments, especially the Lagos State
government to rid towns and cities of these strip clubs have met a brick wall
as the operators of such businesses are back with little or no moderation to
the usual practice.
The government, while attempting to bring a little sanity to
the city’s night life once raided the strip clubs in the Ikeja axis of Lagos
State and arrested the strippers. But the operators reacted by charging the
government to court.
Scattered all over Lagos mainland are strip/nude clubs like
Cazz bar, Club Unique, Wall Street bar, Cave Exclusive and Ocean Blue.
A visit to the Cazz bar on Opebi road, Ikeja on a Friday
night was an experience always fresh in the mind, I have been hearing on how
girl sell themselves just to make the viewers happy so I decided to take a look
of what's happening in there.
After paying an entrance fee of N3,000.00 one is entitled to
enjoy the ambience where most of the strippers are beautiful white girls
‘imported’ into the country to entertain and meet the audience’s different
needs.
The girls who have their bodies scantily covered with
g-string pants and bras took a pole-dancing position and when charged, they
discarded of the scanty clothings on them and danced naked performing also the
lap-dance for any patron who was willing to give them a tip.
Further investigations revealed that there is a VIP section
where you pay an entrance fee of N10,000.00 which entitles you to have anything
on demand free.
The Cazz bar regulation states that a patron who is willing
to go home with one of its strippers will wait till 5:000 a.m (which is the
closing time) and pay the management while leaving his phone number and address
for security reasons.
At the Cazz Bar it is stated that each of the strippers
collects N75,000.00 per week excluding accommodation and feeding. The practice
at the Cave Exclusive in GRA, Ikeja is a little different compared to that of
Cazz Bar. At the Cave Exclusive, the entrance fee is N5,000.00. What makes the
operations of Cave Exclusive different from others is that not only that the
strippers are scantily clad, the bar attendants who are mostly ladies move
around and attend to patrons in their underwears.
alt-The environment speaks s..ex and you won’t fail to catch
a glimpse of couples engaged in one sexual act or the other and with no damn
given to prying eyes.
One of the attendants who spoke to the reporters claimed she
wasn’t initially aware that the rule is that attendants also will work in their underwear. she said she discovered this on her first day at work and that she
was planning to quit anytime from now as she wasn’t comfortable with the
practice.
On further questioning, she claimed her take-home pay in a
month is N25,000.00 and she feels she shouldn’t be subjected to such a
treatment for that amount as customers are free to touch and make passes at
her, while the management expects her to smile back at them.
Strip and nude bar operation is said to have started in
Lagos in the 90’s. Then, some hangouts in Apapa used to bring in ladies who
were used in meeting the sexual needs of European sailors who often visited the
hangout while on trips to Lagos.
The operation gradually gained ground and has now become
fully rooted with quite a large number of nightclubs in existence.
A trip round the city of Lagos revealed that virtually every
nook and cranny of this city has this strip and nude club due to the commercial
gains derived from them.
Teenagers and young ladies see the club as an avenue to make
money not considering the consequences of their action. It was also gathered that top businessmen and politicians
catch fun, but they choose to do that in hangouts that operate strictly by
membership.
A strip bar owner in Lagos is said to rake in between N5m
and N10m every month depending on the location and patronage.
A usual strip club is open everyday for business, but has
Wednesdays and Fridays as its special days.
Many had thought that the Lagos state government would win
the battle to curb, if not stop this business, while some opine that it’s a
business that has come to stay whether the government likes it or not.
Note: To be contd in PART 2, Don't miss out!
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