This town is world-renowned for its tolerant nature towards prostitution, but what about the people that aren’t really trying to be tricks, but rather just to trick off a few euros at the strip club? Honestly, there aren’t too many places in town where the ladies are working that pole. The most centrally-located one I can think of is La Vie en Proost in the Red Light District. This takes me back to a short piece that I wrote in 2006 that still cracks me up until this day:
“In the good old US we usually tip the strippers one dollar unless you’re a mark-ass trick that thinks that the more you tip a stripper the greater your chances of going home with her become. However, our dollar is a bill that can fit easily under a garter belt. In the European Union, the one euro (and two euro for that matter) are coins. Therefore… how does one physically tip a stripper one or two euros? Is there a bowl on stage or do they carry a coin satchel? Maybe they just throw the coins on stage and the stripper has to bend down and with her index finger and thumb individually pick up each coin. But that would prolong the time between sets, so that seems unlikely. Maybe the average tip is more than one or two euros? The lowest denomination of bill is a five euro. Quite possibly that goes in a garter if they do indeed wear one. Or maybe there is a place to insert these coins. If anyone knows, tell me! I may have to do some hands on research concerning this query.”
