@TheySeeMeRowling (love your username)!
Yes I do-well I usually keep my shoes on!
I am a pretty good actress. As I said upthread, had I had more self-awareness I think I'd have tried for the performing arts. This fulfils that side of me.
I don't 'enjoy' it per se but I just don't mind it? It doesn't concern me being naked-the only time it has bothered me is if I don't trust a customer, or don't want to be naked near him for some other reason.
No, I've never gone further than I should unless you mean things like exchanging numbers (not allowed really but I've done it) or giving them a couple of mins extra if they promise me a glass of champagne!
Dances are pretty close apart from in 'air dancing' clubs-I didn't enjoy working in those to be honest. I can't sell a product that I feel isn't worth the price.
Some clubs are strictly no contact whatsoever. Most clubs in fact.
My favourite clubs weren't. That's not WHY they were my favourite clubs, but just happened to be that way. Depending on the customer, I didn't mind someone putting their hands on my legs/shoulders/torso. Never anywhere sexual.
I've had a couple of men do the touching themselves thing. It'd be a strict 'Put it away NOW!' They would do. And then I'd obviously be very careful about going anywhere near them during the remainder of the dance. If they got their penis out, I'd call a bouncer.
I can't remember how many times I've had to call a bouncer for that or other reasons. It isn't many-they watch the dances closely anyway and there are cameras-9 times out of ten they'd see if anything untoward went on. Of the times I remember calling or going and getting one, it was for other dancers whose boundaries perhaps weren't quite as formed.
E.G there was one dancer-she was in her mid/late twenties but looked very young. She was very petite with a little doll-like face and baby blonde hair. She is actually very clever and was then studying for her M.A but it left me cold what some customers seemed to perceive of her and were like with her as a result.
The creepy guys would ask her to put a 'little girl' voice on in dances, things such as that.
I was dancing in the VIP lounge and she was dancing on an adjacent sofa, and I saw her customer pick her up.. She told him to put her down, obviously wasn't comfortable with it. I saw him do it again, and again with her protesting each time. I told my customer with apologies that i was pausing the dance and went over and threatened to 'drop kick' him if he did it again. He didn't do it again.
I must clarify that I am quite an athletic looking woman but I am in no way violent or aggressive-I am quite meek in fact. But he believed me for some reason. That situation really wound me up and I felt quite protective of her. The bouncer heard what I was saying and came in and I told him what had happened. So I guess not quite me 'calling' him but a similar situation.
I have refused many a dance. Sometimes if a customer was just being awful and nasty. Sometimes I'd refuse a dance if a customer smelled-I didn't want an awful sweaty (or worse) scent on my clothing and up my nose. Or we'd warn one another if a customer was touchy feely or had assaulted someone.
We'd get tips quite often. One certain ethnicity that frequented my old favourite club at certain times of the year, tipped a LOT. As if it was just par for the course. £50 every few minutes. They'd also spend a lot and were extremely respectful, never any untoward behaviour, lots of compliments, were just a pleasure to dance for. I was never brash enough to ask for tips, but some dancers would. I used to wear tip jar shoes, that attracted tips more-I wish I still had those as a souvenir but I wore them until they fell apart!