I deleted this due to legal reasons but you know what fuck it, here it is. This is MY experiance and I’m not hiding it.

My old strip club got raided - read about it in EVERY MAJOR NYC PAPER.

Read about it in the NY DAILY NEWS.

Read about it in the NY POST.

Read about it in the NY TIMES.

This is a long post. Not for the tldr; crowd.

Apparently the cops came in full out riot gear and than detained staff and interrogated them. THANK GOD I LEFT THIS PLACE BEHIND.

Remember how I told you how I got my feet wet in stripping….I never told you about how I ended up knees deep in sleaziest club ever.

It’s called Hot Lap Dance club. I started working there after my drug dealers girlfriend recruited me in the Summer of 2006. I worked there on and off till this past fall when I basically had it with the place.

I never made a lot of money because of constant refusal to offer anything more than a dance. The place changed locations often, being held at a bar in the financial district to a massage parlor to ultimately a loft in midtown.One time it was at a bar and one of the owners took me on a tour, he brought me down to the basement and than propositioned me for sex. I declined as tactfully and quickly as possible. I ran up the stairs and the door was locked. Luckily another owner was bringing a girl down and the door opened.

It was a great place when I was a full blow cocaine addict, there was one associate of Lou’s who came by almost every night with an unlimited supply of cocaine that was free to every girl. Pot smoking was easily done no problem. I could always drink despite being underage. Nobody even took a glance at my id until a few weeks before I quit and Lou was verifying every girls age.

There was a pimp who came by almost every night and there were Russian girls who worked for him.

The live shows were always interesting, and I was offered them consistently but always turned them down. I’ve watched enough sybian shows to go nuts.  Watching the lesbian shows was like watching the last scene in Requiem For a Dream. Plus I was always mystified by Alexia Moore[who has now been arrested for prostitution] gravity defying boobs. And the fact that she was called a porn star yet I could never find anything more than nudie pictures and soft fetish videos of her.

And Lou, oh Big Lou. The scummiest of scumbags. Rumored to have actually raped girls. He would touch you, and lead you around like a piece of meat. Sometimes he would request dances and if you did them you’d end up grinding his huge obese stomach. If you were alone in private with him[which most dancers avoided like the plague] he would do everything possible to touch you and even have sex with you. Lou also loved to get bad reviews of his strip club taken off the internet and paid his way to the top of a stripclub list. He would advertise on Cl claiming dancers made $1000 - $5000 a night! The interview process involved dancing for Lou…many girls collected their things after this “interview” and were never seen again. If Lou found you bad-mouthing the club on the internet you would be fired. He found out about my blog and read it regularly while I worked there to make sure I never said anything.

What did I like about HLD? Tip out was CHEAP. Tip out can run you nearly $300 in Manhattan strip clubs, at HLD it was $80 and easy as pie to get out, a tip I got from a veteran dancer my second night - “Never tell Lou what you really made. Always tell him half.” I could wear whatever the fuck I want and there weren’t really any rules to follow. I came and went as I pleased. I got along well with a certain group of dancers and all the staff[door guy, bartender, house mom, etc]. And it was quick easy money…sometimes.

Towards my last run[I worked on and off at HLD since 2006] I realized there was no money there for clean girl. If you weren’t willing to cross boundaries and break the law than good luck making over $350. The majority of the clientele became younger and younger and fueled by more and more cocaine[which by this time I was off]. Going to work there just made me sad. I saw beautiful intelligent women trying to get together enough money to pay for their masters degree not being given the respect they deserved. Lou was becoming greedier and greedier, he was making more and more money but it didn’t seem like the girls were.

The straw that broke this camels back was a fellow dancer telling my exboyfriend where I work and that I was a prostitute as well. I called Lou furious since this was an extras girl and ranted about how he let extras go on and basically told him that I would be the shit out of that girl. So I quit. I couldn’t take it anymore. I hated that place.

Personally I’m glad this place got raided.

I hope Lou is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I hope he is anally raped daily in jail for all the fucked up shit he has done[because trust me it goes faaaaar beyond “promoting prostitution” and “tax evasion”, you can take that as you wish].

I feel bad for anyone who was not involved in the prostitution and got busted though, as there were clean girls in the club.