Hello, do you care for a lap dance?”
The raspy tone beckons with an outstretched arm, a seductive
look, boobs hanging out of loose bras and thighs almost making contact with
your face. She leans a lot closer, heaves into you and asks one more time for
emphasis:
"My name is Esther. Do you care for a lap dance?”
Much of Allen Avenue and the rest of Ikeja immerse self in
the hustle and bustle that is the signature of Lagos life all week long. But as
dusk gives way to the dark night, Allen Avenue and Opebi in mainland Lagos,
slips into a world of lap dances, VIP Lounge quickies, tweaks and sex on the
go. Here, young women offer themselves up to be devoured for a fee. Here,
upwardly mobile men hop off sleek cars into a world of risque belly dancers and
butt popping, while the rest of the country goes to bed.
“We are helping the Nigerian economy in our own little way”,
one of the managers of a strip club in GRA, Ikeja, tells me. “Most of these
girls can’t find other jobs or are not employable because of their low levels
of education. Some are undergraduates in our Universities who come begging to
be strippers to keep themselves in school. And, depending on how much they turn
in in a week, you could say they are well remunerated”, he continues, sounding
every bit like an empowerment advocate.
Lap dances of course come at a premium. Most of the strip
clubs also charge gate fees and you only get in after being completely frisked
and your electronic gadgets turned off. At the Didoz Lounge and Wall Street Pub
on Allen Avenue, the entrance fee is a flat N1,000 sum. At the Unique Gent’s
Club across the road, the entrance fee is a cool N2,000. At Ocean Blue opposite
a GTBank outlet, you get in for N2,000 as well. At the Cabaret further down the
road, N1,000 gets you in and at The Cave in GRA, N5,000 ushers you into one of
the most expansive strip dance caverns you are ever likely to find in the
country.
The lap dance rates also vary from strip club to strip club.
At the Didoz Lounge, for a N1,000 bill, you get to be tweaked upon, allowed to
be cuddled, allowed to explore the vital parts of the busty young woman resting
on your torso and allowed to be spoilt silly. Once your time is up (some 15
minutes of depravity), she steps off your torso, slips into her panties and
bra, gets her pay and heads to the next prospective client with the same words
parsing her lips:
“Do you care for a lap dance?”
At the Unique Gent’s Club, the routine isn’t exactly
different. Lap dances are however higher at N1,500 for 15 minutes and could
take a shorter span for the same amount,depending on how happy you make the
young woman feel for her troubles. Most of the strip clubs on either side of
Allen and Opebi also charge a similar rate for lap dances. The rates are about
the same at a strip club located in Balarabe Musa, Victoria Island.
“Na how man go do? Body no be firewood”, said a man in his
40s who told me he visits The Cave every other night.
One man told me his wife mustn't know he’s a regular strip
club visitor. “I just tell her there is mad traffic and I have to pass the
night at the office”, he says, tongue in his cheek before devolving into a
throaty laughter. “You see, my bloda, this country odukwa hard. Ehn, man must
chillax,” he says with an Igbo accent that at once rendered the smell of
perspiring flesh in the room irrelevant.
And relax they do, armed with bottles and glasses of
alcoholic beverages and puffing cigarettes into a dimly lit room with an array
of light bulbs, while curvy dancers swing their hips this way and that, much to
their amusement and pleasure.
“I enjoy what I do”, says one lady who was bold enough to
talk to me. As long as it keeps paying the bills and as long as I am still
looking this sexy, I won’t be trading this profession for any other in the
world”, she added, eyes rolling from too much alcohol, energy drinks and cigar.
Another Lady at The Cave who identified herself as Becky,
told me she dropped out of school as things got harder and stripping for a fee
offered her a chance at survival. “I’ll someday return to school”, she says,
her eyes giving little hint that she was ever going to keep her promise.
It gets better for sex starved men at the strip clubs as
well. For a little over N10,000, you get to take a young woman who’s titillated
you all night into a VIP Lounge within the bowels of the club. “Let’s go to the
VIP”, they all say, after tweaking their client to moaning point.
On either side of Allen Avenue and Opebi, gun wielding
police officers patrol the night to ensure there is no breakdown of law and
order from inebriated Nigerians. At the Opebi junction, nubile women flaunt
their assets while beckoning on anyone slowing down behind a steering wheeler
walking on foot with two words uttered suggestively: “how far?”
Lagos loves a party as well and the night life during
weekends reaches stratospheric levels, with the clubs brimming with ladies
sashaying, winding and willing to be taken home for a fee.
“This is Nigeria’s Sodom and Gomorrah”, one security
personnel of a popular bank who provides “short time” rooms for the sex starved
for a fee, tells me. With the lewd music booming from the distance and women
lining up to gain entrance into his cubicle all night long in a bid to get
laid, it will be difficult to disagree too much
Written by Emmanuel Abazu
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