Halloween Sluts - Part 2

If you read my last post, you'll know that my main problem with slutty Halloween costumes is that they fail as costumes. (And if you haven't read the last one - what are you doing? Go read it!!)

I do, however, have a secondary motive for disliking most of the slutty costumes, and this one isn't as pure as my love of good cos-play. This one is motivated by good old fashioned greed.

If it were up to me, I would go back to the days where women wore floor-length dresses, and a glimpse of a well-turned ankle was enough to send your average man into fits of passion.

Lets face it, as a worker in the sex industry, the rarer it is for men to see some naked flesh in their daily lives, the more likely they are to come see me. It may be selfish, but heck, strippers aren't really known for their generosity!

This has been getting worse and worse lately - to the extent that about half of the slutty costumes I see are actually made by companies like Leg Avenue - which makes stockings and costumes for dancers. Most sex shops have Halloween sales so that women can come buy costumes from them, and even the costume companies that aren't based in the sex industry are mostly rip-offs of the costumes made for the sex industry.

At this point, Halloween in the entertainment district of a major city looks like a giant strip club. The women are wearing the same clothes (down to the brand name), drinking, flirting with strangers, and by the end of the night, usually getting closer to naked than they started (not far to go, in many cases).

All of which is hardly good news for strippers. After all, why would you pay to go to a dingy bar where the drinks are overpriced and the women will only get naked for $40, and have you thrown out if you so much as stroke a thigh, when you could go three doors down, and find cheaper drinks and looser women? The chance of your average guy going home with a stripper is about a thousand to one, but the chance of being able to take home a drunken "sexy nurse" is about 50/50.

It's as though it suddenly became socially acceptable to bring a keg out into the street, and start pouring everyone free beer. The bars would be mighty pissed off about it.