Strippers, like all workers need not to be accosted while they are performing their jobs. If the patrons of the establishment are pawing and grabbing the stripper, he or she cannot effectively perform the tasks they are being paid to do. Many patrons seem to be extremely confused about “why you can’t touch strippers”, but the reason is simple. If you worked at a fast-food restaurant, would you agree to perform your job if customers could drive up and grab your hands full of food. Most would not, because they are not familiar with those strangers and don’t want to be touched by them.
The same is true of strippers. Just because you are performing a service, entertaining someone, doesn’t mean you want to be touched by them. Touching is an intimate act. We want to be touched by family, friends, the person we are dating, some closer acquaintances, and the rarest of bosses. We very rarely permit strangers to touch us.
The fact that a stripper may not even be clothed is yet another deterrent to the touching thing. Nudity may not be an issue with the stripper, but they haven’t agreed to intimacy with all the patrons. They only agreed to dancing naked in front of them at a non-touchable distance. The patron should remain seated and respect that separation.
Most strippers are independent contractors, meaning they are not covered by workman’s compensation. If they are injured on the job, they cannot receive pay to replace lost wages. Injured dancers, those in casts or with scratches and scars will not draw the kind of attention a club owner desires. So, all dancers must show up at work ready to dance without injury.
If a dancer is injured, the dancer loses pay from not working as an independent contractor. Therefore, the owner of the establishment can only offer protection from overeager patrons as they may cause bodily harm to the stripper if they get out of hand. Simply put, patrons cannot touch because it could lead to bodily harm, may offend the stripper, will interfere with his or her routine and will disrupt the show.
Other patrons don’t want to see a show between some strange guy from the audience and the stripper they are trying to enjoy watching. The patrons are there for the stripper’s performances and only the stripper’s acts, not the patrons. Patrons touching strippers is completed forbidden. For more details, click here.
