It was 2007. I had a girlfriend at the time but had gone out for after work drinks with one mate, single, who was borderline addicted to the places, and his then-housemate (who weirdly enough is now a good mate of mine and took my room at a flat I moved out of, years later) also single who frequently tagged along. I didn't want to go but the ringleader paid my entry, paid for my first drink, and put two dance tokens in my hand. I gave him them back saying I wouldn't need them. So soon I'm sat down watching the ringleader surrounded by about four girls keen to get his money while he was trying to talk them into visiting him at work and showing them his business card ; the other lad told me he was forever getting tricked into staying until closing by girls saying there would be an afterparty at theirs, but he never quite managed to be able to follow anyone back. Funny. Out of the corner of my eye my other mate was getting a dance in a not-really-private booth, when a hot brunette came and started talking to me. I told her politely that I had a girlfriend and wouldn't be having any dances and that I didn't really want to be there (which was true, at the time) and she said "that's OK, we can just talk" having probably heard it all before from guys with "girlfriends." So after a decent chat, I decided, screw it, I'd have a dance off her. Not because I was desperate to see her naked, but because she'd put the effort in so I'd rather her get paid for it than any of the ones swanning around the ringleader. Plus, I'd get to see her naked. I went over and asked him for one of the tokens back and with a big grin he put it in my hand. I had my dance off her and it was interesting to see a girl naked with differences to my girlfriends naked body, namely a landing strip (my mrs was completely shaved) and tattoos, including one near her gash. She was hot, but I can't say I'd pay for the experience again. She thanked me and went back to the bar. I had a few more drinks, made my excuses, left, got the bus home, woke up my mrs and she let me drunkenly fumble with her.
Now a singleton, I wouldnt bother with strip clubs. Weighing up the total costs involved, might as well just get a whore.