November 21, 2009 - Playboy.com’s “10 strip clubs that offer more than a lap dance”
The adult magazine conglomerate goes outside the box for their own version of a top club list
Despite the fact that Playboy seems to have an unrequited, look-but-don’t touch fascination with our industry, their online division produced a decent piece last month chronicling their quest to find the most creative adult nightclubs in the country. From San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Theater, whose dancers put on musical (as in trumpets and kazoos) peep shows, to the weekly nude oil wrestling matches at Dallas’ XTC Cabaret, Playboy scoured the U.S. to find more than two-for-one drink specials and other usual fare.
Of those the Playboy.com “One Strip Beyond” story mentions, some are genuinely different, while other choices seem uninspired for the rest of us that are in the know. Jumbo’s Clown Room in Los Angeles, for example, sounds like a David Lynch movie come to life. And after all these years reporting on sex and culture, it’s impressive to see that a place like Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami—often mistaken for a casino and now officially the world’s largest strip club at 74,000 square feet—even impresses a voice like Playboy Magazine.
Our favorites? Both, surprisingly enough, hail from the Pacific Northwest. The first, Mary’s Club in Portland, is proud to have tattooed contortionist entertainers who sometimes smoke cigarettes with their toes. And in Eugene, Oregon, the Silver Dollar Club offers an annual event that is as popular with horror fans as it is their regulars and the curious—a haunted house/strip club. (Ed note—Awesome!) Each Halloween, the Silver Dollar girls get ghoulish while still being naked. The elaborate set-up spreads throughout the floor, the champagne room and the club’s three stages.
