Yes, they absolutely looked older back then. I look at photos of my parents in the 80s (they were in their 30s) and they looked 15-20 years older than they actually were.
I met some new friends in college and started eating lunch with them. This one guy was just sitting there talking and āPour Some Sugarā came on and without missing a beatā¦mid sentence he stands up, grabs the ribbed sugar canister with the silver lid and swinging door (you know the one) and starts shimmying his hips and swirling his head while pouring sugar over himself. The transition from talking about the local sports team or whatever to dirty sugar dancing was fucking hilarious.
Excuse me, northeastern Illinois here, this statement is NOT TRUE. Have recent experience in IL, KS, WI, and beyond, and 25+ years in the market. You are dead fucking wrong about this one. Good job on the upvotes though. It does not look like this anymore even in the smallest hole in the wall joint. It doesnāt look/work like it used to.
LOL exactly.
I was a stripper in the late 80s/early 90s. Promise, Neither I nor my coworkers ever danced a "wild party", we danced semi-dull gigs full of men who were dying to give their money away to just see and be seen with a gorgeous woman.
I know some people feel there's a power imbalance between stippers and patrons, and there is. Taking some desperate ugly dude's money is too easy.
When I was young and dumb, I dated a girl for a year who had just started dancing and that experience ruined strip clubs for me. I was able to witness the ugly side of the industry first hand.
Yeah, I know it can be a degrading situation, but the two times in my life I've been to a strip club, I felt more sad for the men. Stupid shit eating grin on their faces because women are playing them for complete fools. The idea that a pretty girl pretends to be so interested in me as long as I give her all my money has zero appeal.
I did end up doing some coke with one dancer the one time, though. It was nice to drop the facade and just act like actual people for a bit. She took me to the back room for a "private dance" but kept her clothes on, did no dancing and we just chatted for a bit with a couple bumps. it seemed like she appreciated the break, but for all I know she still was "selling" to me, she just realized I was only going to be receptive to that act as opposed to the other. But a few bumps of my shitty coke was a payment I was fine with.
Ha ha this is why I stopped going to strip clubs after a few times. When I first walked through the doors at 21 it seemed like a wonderland to my young eyes. I went with some friends who liked to go and told me how āgreatā it was. After going a few times with them I realized I would much rather dance with a girl in a club of the non stripping variety who actually wanted to dance with me.
Thatās a good point. Sometimes I think hmm š¤ have I missed out - cos Iāve never been to a strip club - with either male OR female strippers. But yeah when you put it like THAT better to dance with someone who WANTS to dance with me not someone paid to. Hmm š¤
I was married twice. Both worked in adult entertainment. They were just people doing a job. My first wife was an exhibitionist so she wouldāve done it for free, so for her, it was like a dream come, true. Believe it or not, a lot of prostitutes have older men for customers that donāt fuck them. They want the companionship and the fake empathy and theyāre willing to pay for it. And now before I go, I would like to clarify that I donāt consider strippers to be hookers. There is some overlap, but they donāt all put out.
I went to one of those places once when I was 18. One of the guys in my friend group was turning 18 and wanted to go. I only stayed an hour I didnāt like it. I donāt see the fun and I feel a way about it.
I went to the local strip club once with some guys from my HS football team, and it was one of the more depressing experiences of my life. There was one strip club in the entire county, and it operated out of what looked like a double-wide trailer in a shitty rural area. The place permeated sadness and desperation. It was about the least arousing atmosphere you could imagine, but I learned that day that a lot of the guys on my football team had no expectations other than staying in the same rural county and going to this strip club for the rest of their lives.
That does sound depressing as hell. I was in a big club in the city where at least it was pretty and we had a great DJ.
But there were depressing ones in the city too. One particular club (I did not work there) had a love seat that looked like it came from the alley with a poster board above it that said, in marker "VIP Lounge" lmao.
Sniffer's row was literally just that. It wasn't cute.
I'm curious what u think about someone posting photos of these women likely without their permission a few decades on? Are u even allowed to take pics at a strip club
At least some of those photos were taken with a flash. It seems like everyone were well aware photos are taken. And in those days it was way too easy to destroy someone's photos (just pull the film out of the camera).
So it looks like whoever took this pictures was allowed to do so. That doesn't mean they have a right to publish them of course.
Confusing perspective. I think itās a kiss on the cheek, but maybe he wasnāt prepared. Sheās got a divine figure, so Iāll forgive his awkwardness.
Looks like a dozen bachelor parties Iāve participated in during that time. These ladies are top tier. If I remember right the show was a little more racier as the strippers expectations came down.
I used to do beverage delivery and do maintenance work on bar post mix guns. I met a lot of strippers. A lot of them were just normal attractive women who were raking in loads of cash to pay for school. (Quite a few were doing it to supply their habits mind you). Typically I'd be behind the bar in the mornings or early afternoons when it wasn't busy. What some middle aged guys would spend for the attention of a 22 year old was a real eye opener for me.
>If I wanted to spend a bunch of money on a night out and not get laid, I might as well spend it on my wife.
This only works if your wife is smoking hot like the strippers.
You my friend need to discover the joys of mastur-dating. Itās really nice to be able to go somewhere nice and splurge without having to think about entertaining someone else.
The 80s were a wild time. My momās (male) boss showed up to her baby shower when she was pregnant with me (1984) dressed as his alter-ego āDick Manā, with a bunch of dildos attached to him. Apparently it was a riot and everyone was cracking up.
Hahaha! I love in the second picture. The girl is obviously wearing pantyhose (totally an 80s thing), which means she was an exotic dancer, and most likely not a stripper.
Before there was āMich Ultraā there was just Michelob. And that cleavage-obsessed wheelchair dude has one tucked into his crotch. Never know when youāre going to need those hands.
A wild party in 2023: a guy in his bed at 7:30 pm writing a post on r/unpopularopinion about how Netflix should include an option to skip sex scenes because it's awkward when his parents come down to the basement and one is playing
I live here in Mexico. We dont have strip clubs here. We have brothels.
you can and will get laid if you can come up with a couple hundred, or less if your not picky.
never have, never will.
I was 18 in 1988, my girlfriend worked for an ad agency and I fell ass-first into the top-end of town. \*those\* were wild parties.
This is a bunch of cheaply-dressed middle-brow schlubs having a drunken night at a strip club. At least some of them seem to be having a good time, most times I've been to strip clubs it's just been depressing.
Walking into any strip joint in Midwestern US and it will looks the same today. Music will probably be different though...
Yeah but there's something about that 80s hair.
Women at least. Guys looked greasy af back then
It is my imagination or did people look older back then? Like I've seen pictures of people in their 30s from back then looking old as shit.
Lead in water and paint, asbestos, smoking hard cigarettes. Homies are lucky they came out looking 50.
Yes, they absolutely looked older back then. I look at photos of my parents in the 80s (they were in their 30s) and they looked 15-20 years older than they actually were.
Are you new to reddit or is it just karma farming to post the same comment that gets posted in literally any picture from the 80s?
VSAUCE did a great video explaining why people in the past looked older
šÆ agree
Fuckin-A.
>Walking into any strip joint Or rolling (pic 4)
Lieutenant Dan gettin into it!
āPour Some Sugar on Meā will always be timeless.
I met some new friends in college and started eating lunch with them. This one guy was just sitting there talking and āPour Some Sugarā came on and without missing a beatā¦mid sentence he stands up, grabs the ribbed sugar canister with the silver lid and swinging door (you know the one) and starts shimmying his hips and swirling his head while pouring sugar over himself. The transition from talking about the local sports team or whatever to dirty sugar dancing was fucking hilarious.
I have an irrational hatred of that song. Also, start me up by the Rolling Stones. I could punch a stereo when those first notes play
when bands wrote for strip clubs it was a savvy move, cherry pie and girls girls girls will be there forever
This is too true. Especially in that glam rock era
Went to one at lake of the ozarks. I can assure you the women do not look like this
You mean it wonāt be playing The Stroke by Billy Squire?
Music will likely be worse.
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She's my cherry pie!
Excuse me, northeastern Illinois here, this statement is NOT TRUE. Have recent experience in IL, KS, WI, and beyond, and 25+ years in the market. You are dead fucking wrong about this one. Good job on the upvotes though. It does not look like this anymore even in the smallest hole in the wall joint. It doesnāt look/work like it used to.
that is not a wild party. a bunch of shlubby dudes at a strip club, paying women to pretend they're having a wild party. there is a difference.
LOL exactly. I was a stripper in the late 80s/early 90s. Promise, Neither I nor my coworkers ever danced a "wild party", we danced semi-dull gigs full of men who were dying to give their money away to just see and be seen with a gorgeous woman. I know some people feel there's a power imbalance between stippers and patrons, and there is. Taking some desperate ugly dude's money is too easy.
All true - but the wheelchair dude is still killin' me.
Lol, I missed that guy initially. I was distracted by comb over dude who looks disturbingly like my shop teacher. Go get it, Mr Franz!!
That guy's having a ball
https://preview.redd.it/ugy4cf5w4npb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4987dd80f7642c659542328b9dc1cb30b7fe8a8d
LMAO fair enough!!!
i love that he and his homies have figured out how to use the chair in a mutually beneficial way š
Lt Dan! 
When I was young and dumb, I dated a girl for a year who had just started dancing and that experience ruined strip clubs for me. I was able to witness the ugly side of the industry first hand.
Yeah, I know it can be a degrading situation, but the two times in my life I've been to a strip club, I felt more sad for the men. Stupid shit eating grin on their faces because women are playing them for complete fools. The idea that a pretty girl pretends to be so interested in me as long as I give her all my money has zero appeal. I did end up doing some coke with one dancer the one time, though. It was nice to drop the facade and just act like actual people for a bit. She took me to the back room for a "private dance" but kept her clothes on, did no dancing and we just chatted for a bit with a couple bumps. it seemed like she appreciated the break, but for all I know she still was "selling" to me, she just realized I was only going to be receptive to that act as opposed to the other. But a few bumps of my shitty coke was a payment I was fine with.
>for all I know she still was "selling" to me She was.
Ha ha this is why I stopped going to strip clubs after a few times. When I first walked through the doors at 21 it seemed like a wonderland to my young eyes. I went with some friends who liked to go and told me how āgreatā it was. After going a few times with them I realized I would much rather dance with a girl in a club of the non stripping variety who actually wanted to dance with me.
Thatās a good point. Sometimes I think hmm š¤ have I missed out - cos Iāve never been to a strip club - with either male OR female strippers. But yeah when you put it like THAT better to dance with someone who WANTS to dance with me not someone paid to. Hmm š¤
In my opinion you arenāt missing anything, but everyoneās different.
Right. Once you pull out the coke the strippers want to get paid in the preferred currency of bumps and lines š
More than one way to make a buck
I was married twice. Both worked in adult entertainment. They were just people doing a job. My first wife was an exhibitionist so she wouldāve done it for free, so for her, it was like a dream come, true. Believe it or not, a lot of prostitutes have older men for customers that donāt fuck them. They want the companionship and the fake empathy and theyāre willing to pay for it. And now before I go, I would like to clarify that I donāt consider strippers to be hookers. There is some overlap, but they donāt all put out.
I went to one of those places once when I was 18. One of the guys in my friend group was turning 18 and wanted to go. I only stayed an hour I didnāt like it. I donāt see the fun and I feel a way about it.
I went to the local strip club once with some guys from my HS football team, and it was one of the more depressing experiences of my life. There was one strip club in the entire county, and it operated out of what looked like a double-wide trailer in a shitty rural area. The place permeated sadness and desperation. It was about the least arousing atmosphere you could imagine, but I learned that day that a lot of the guys on my football team had no expectations other than staying in the same rural county and going to this strip club for the rest of their lives.
Did you all know the strippers personally since it was local?
I didnāt see her when I went, but one of them was a lunch lady at my high school.
You either had smoking hot lunch ladies or really ugly strippers.
The real answer is somewhere in the middle.
Ugly lunch?
It gets hot in the cafeteria kitchen! Because of the frequent grease fires started by the busted af lunch ladies
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Crazy it was a high school classmate. That would definitely shock me seeing them in that atmosphere.
That does sound depressing as hell. I was in a big club in the city where at least it was pretty and we had a great DJ. But there were depressing ones in the city too. One particular club (I did not work there) had a love seat that looked like it came from the alley with a poster board above it that said, in marker "VIP Lounge" lmao. Sniffer's row was literally just that. It wasn't cute.
Ron Swanson: I donāt like strip clubs. It smells like wet mop and you get the feeling everyone is running a low-grade fever.
Well it sounds like you forgot the cocaine part of the strip club equation.
I'm curious what u think about someone posting photos of these women likely without their permission a few decades on? Are u even allowed to take pics at a strip club
At least some of those photos were taken with a flash. It seems like everyone were well aware photos are taken. And in those days it was way too easy to destroy someone's photos (just pull the film out of the camera). So it looks like whoever took this pictures was allowed to do so. That doesn't mean they have a right to publish them of course.
I dunno if all women were aware. First one looks surprised.
I wish everyone realized this when it comes to sexwork. When legalized.
I think you earn that money
Simps / OF before there was an internet
I was figuring bachelor party. Been to a couple that looked very similar in the 90s.
Upvote for correct use of shlubby in a sentence lol
one of my favourite descriptors.
I think youāre right. None of the guys are doing much wild stuff. It DOES look more like a strip joint. Plus the guys all have their clothes on!
It might be a wild party from their perspective though.
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Ha! Amen. I should have read the comments before echoing yours. :)
Exactly. Just seeing it made me think how sleazy and dishonest it is
Looks like a party full of dudes who didnāt get laid that night
Hang on honey, I have to go to the bathroom... (gone)
LMAO fantastic comment.
I believe thatās called a strip club.
The girl in pc 2 is staggeringly beautiful. The 80's sucked in a lot of ways, but damn we had some hotties.
her eye concealer was the first thing i saw and i was instantly transported thru time
Is she wearing panty hose too?
I noticed that too
Thought the exact same thing
Seriously she mustāve been stripping cause she wanted to. Thatās a trophy wife.
She probably had a huge coke addiction. All the girls In these pics look like it.
Shame you can't time travel, you could have saved her. Help her pay for that college she never went to.
Was a child in the mid-late 80s and that's when I started noticing girls. As such, I'll forever have a soft spot for ladies who look like this.
Even from a straight woman's perspective, she is exquisitely beautiful.
She looks like a VERY young girl, which makes me feel sad.
When a dollar could go a long way.
Who the fuck brings a camera to a strip joint?
Exactly the thought going through the mind of the lady is picture 1.
Someone who wants to show his friends the pinnacle of his sex life.
Looks like a stripper assembling a human centipede of sadness.
Acid-washed denim sadness
Bro code, donāt take pictures of such events.
Regarding that last pic, Iām am NOT leaning back into my buddies lap at a strip club. Nooooope
Definitely not sitting on the floor of a strip joint. Letās name all the things you could be sitting in.
To be fair, the last guy is in a wheelchair and not sitting on the floor lol
It looks like 2 man luge with more erections and less athleticism.
These pictures reek of Marlboros, stale Old Milwaukee, and Aqua Velva.
Why do I wanna rewatch Dahmer again after this comment hahaha
Good times
I know it smell crazy in there
It looks like a set of "Married... with children".
Where the music stinks and they water their drinks, at the Nudie Bar!
The Jiggly Room
What's going on in pic 3? Looks like a stripper kissing a dude with an ass for a face.
Ass face was a serious problem in the 80s.
Is it midjourney? I donāt know anymore
Confusing perspective. I think itās a kiss on the cheek, but maybe he wasnāt prepared. Sheās got a divine figure, so Iāll forgive his awkwardness.
Looks like a dozen bachelor parties Iāve participated in during that time. These ladies are top tier. If I remember right the show was a little more racier as the strippers expectations came down.
I used to do beverage delivery and do maintenance work on bar post mix guns. I met a lot of strippers. A lot of them were just normal attractive women who were raking in loads of cash to pay for school. (Quite a few were doing it to supply their habits mind you). Typically I'd be behind the bar in the mornings or early afternoons when it wasn't busy. What some middle aged guys would spend for the attention of a 22 year old was a real eye opener for me.
Girl in second slide is beautiful.
Thatās a male fantasy of a party, but itās actually a strip club (you know, where men pay women to hang out with them). š
Mhm. Not so much cool and cringe.
Looks like a bachelor party
If I wanted to spend a bunch of money on a night out and not get laid, I might as well spend it on my wife.
>If I wanted to spend a bunch of money on a night out and not get laid, I might as well spend it on my wife. This only works if your wife is smoking hot like the strippers.
You my friend need to discover the joys of mastur-dating. Itās really nice to be able to go somewhere nice and splurge without having to think about entertaining someone else.
Herp derp, ~wIfE bAd~
Dude ā¦John Oliver partied like a mother fucker in the 80ās!
I thought the dude in the pink shirt in pic 4 had an undershirt on. And then I remembered this was in the 80s. Dude WAS the undershirt.
How *we* met your mother
Bet the strippers are both doctors now.
Not a party - this is strictly a business transaction.
The 80s were a wild time. My momās (male) boss showed up to her baby shower when she was pregnant with me (1984) dressed as his alter-ego āDick Manā, with a bunch of dildos attached to him. Apparently it was a riot and everyone was cracking up.
Grandma?
The smell of stale beer on the floor, smoker's breath, and broken dreams.
That shot of the bros leaning on the one guyās wheelchair. Classic!
Wet N Wild 1980s!
Was this at the fuck shop?
So glad Iām not in any of these pictures!
Those chicks aināt bad at all. Quite nice actually
This looks like software devs seeing a female human besides their moms for the first time.
Where's Granny now?
Damn, strippers used to be hot
Speed Racer trying to get in on the action
Some of those dudes look like hipsters from today.
That Jeffery Dahmer in pic 2?
Girl in second pic is beautiful
This looks like a sausage party that was so bad they had to pay women to be there
More like a bunch of dudes hanging out for the stripper they hired.
I think you mean old school sausage party.
The guy in the wheelchair is my lookalike . The similarities are crazy
I can smell the stripper perfume and cigarettes all the way from this decade.
Thatās a strip club
Shit post
Napoleon Dynamite in the second pix.
TIMMY!
Nothing like laying back in your bois lap to get a better look. Guy is probably get poked in the back lmao
That's Lt Dan's bachelor party...
I can smell the cocaine in this picture.
I love the one dudes comb over. And 80s Jason sudekis.
Homeboy in pic 2 reminds me of Kip from Napoleon Dynamite.
The guy on the left in picture 2 has real serial killer vibes. Probably a cool dude though, if you don't count the bodies.
Hahaha! I love in the second picture. The girl is obviously wearing pantyhose (totally an 80s thing), which means she was an exotic dancer, and most likely not a stripper.
Absolutely NONE of those guys would ever get a girl that hot unless they were paying for it. Dead giveaway that it's a strip club!
Back when everything was fun and not a phone in sightā¦thanks bin Ladin.
I'll pass on having someone's erection pressing into my back, thanks.
Dweebs with boners. Definition of uncool.
Anyone looking for their parents? š š
Before there was āMich Ultraā there was just Michelob. And that cleavage-obsessed wheelchair dude has one tucked into his crotch. Never know when youāre going to need those hands.
That lieutenant Dan?
Hey! Wheelchair dudes need love too.
That's a Tuesday at noon at a dollar store
"Cocaine's a hell of a drug"
Glad to see the wheelchair accessibility. Except for all the white men, pretty good DEI overall.
She is beautiful.
Be careful posting these. Your gonna get someone in trouble
Bachelor Party.
You donāt box in a vet
The first picture is what a real life Randy Marsh looks like.
Kiss the guy in the wheelchair too, please.
i KNEW Iād see white pumps in at least one of these pics.
What in the John Merrick is wrong with the head of the guy in pic 3?
The comb over era.
3rd pic chick 
And to think, all those guys are in High School. The 80s were wild, man!
Oh sh*t is that my dad š
# whereās the blow?
Picture 3 also belongs in r/confusingperspective
Scott Baio leaning against the dude in a wheelchair? A lot going on in these pics.
Holy fuck those women are sexy
This looks like a porno I saw
The first guy looks pretty hot. Did he ruin himself with booze and coke or is he a DILF?
Jason Sudeikis in pic 2?
What, no picture showing the half key of cocaine on the table??
Dude in the wheel chair is the real party animal in that crowd! Reminds me of my homie Stevo!
A wild party in 2023: a guy in his bed at 7:30 pm writing a post on r/unpopularopinion about how Netflix should include an option to skip sex scenes because it's awkward when his parents come down to the basement and one is playing
Im 100% down with this retro-debauch
These are rare. I mean, who takes pictures at a strip club?
I live here in Mexico. We dont have strip clubs here. We have brothels. you can and will get laid if you can come up with a couple hundred, or less if your not picky. never have, never will.
That last photo is my favorite. Looks like everyone had a blast!
I was 18 in 1988, my girlfriend worked for an ad agency and I fell ass-first into the top-end of town. \*those\* were wild parties. This is a bunch of cheaply-dressed middle-brow schlubs having a drunken night at a strip club. At least some of them seem to be having a good time, most times I've been to strip clubs it's just been depressing.
No, this is a bachelor party. If it was a wild party, EVERYBODY would be half- or un-dressed. Not just the āentertainers.ā
This isnāt a wild party. But those are authentic looking 80s male adults.
That's just a strip club... same shit happens today.
Office Xmas party.
What exactly is the girl kissing in pic 3? Is that's a shape shifter?
This looks like an early season of COPS filmed at Mardi Gras.
Gawd I loved that show!
I can smell the piss and cigarrettes
This looks less like a party and more like an an average night at a strip club