[Nada] How would a dancer feel and react if a customer, wearing a condom in their pants, were to cum unexpectedly during a lap dance after little contact? Is this something that a dancer expects could happen and implicitly consents to, or would a dancer become upset? [SubSonic] Ah, grasshopper, I am glad you ask these questions. You touch on what is surely one of the stickiest of all strip club issues, especially about half an hour after the infraction has taken place. The unexpected power splooge can be unpredictable and awkward for customer and dancer alike; however, with good will, mutual respect and a certain rakish joie de vivre, all parties can survive the situation with a minimum of embarrassment and perhaps even a good story for the grandkids. I am happy to offer my suggestions on this topic. Allow me to begin, however, with an exploration of an apparent paradox. You say that the customer in question -- we'll call him Nada -- is "wearing a condom in [his] pants," yet he later "cum[s] unexpectedly." Actually, this raises several issues. I will assume first of all that when you say "wearing a condom in [his] pants," you mean that said condom is actually covering the customer's penis, as opposed to, say, nestling comfortably but unopened in his left back pocket, where it would do little good from a practical standpoint and could perhaps even leave a nasty circular imprint on his butt during a vigorous lapdance. So in the future, please try to be more precise with your language: One does not wear a condom in one's pants, one wears it on one's penis. True, in a strip club one's penis is (alas!) usually inside one's pants, but the key piece of data in this particular example is that the customer's penis is sheathed. OK, so that's established. Now what puzzles me about your construction is how said ejaculation would be "unexpected" if the customer was actually wearing a condom to begin with. Try as I might, I cannot think of a single reason for a strip club customer to don a condom before a lap dance other than in anticipation of ejaculation. (E-mail Bob Smyth for details.) Disease transmission is not an issue, since, as you pointed out, the pants are on. I can't imagine the customer would be trying to *lessen* sensation by wearing a condom. In fact, condoms have few real-world uses other than preventing sexually transmitted diseases, preventing pregnancy and keeping one's pants (and lap dance partner) clean at a strip club. Have you ever heard of someone donning a condom to do his tax return, walk his dog or watch the Bulls game? Of course not. So we must assume that the possibility of a sploogiferous eruption was at least in the back of our hypothetical customer's mind beforehand. Thus I think our hypothetical customer is kidding himself, just a tad, when he speaks of "unexpected" orgasms. But perhaps I'm picking nits; the customer's cognitive-dissonance problems as to his motivations and ejaculatory expectations are frankly irrelevant here. You want to know if the dancer would object to the customer's blissful release, and I want to tell you. But first, allow me to share with you some other prophylactic measures that can be taken in a strip club. As you no doubt have learned if you've been reading this newsgroup for the last ten days or so, bacteria, viruses and other ooky things run rampant in the strip club environment, threatening dancer and customer alike. In one particularly notable case, several million streptococcus microorganisms recently reared their ugly, pathogenic heads in the body of a much beloved San Francisco dancer, forcing her to retire in disgust and move on to cleaner pastures (in this case, the music industry -- have I got news for her). In order to prevent this from happening to you, you might want to consider taping a dental dam over your mouth before each lap dance. Make sure you use sterile Grade A hospital adhesive. (E-mail Ms. Margo for details.) This can be covered with a surgical mask, and, if necessary, a gas mask and/or astronaut's helmet. Full biohazard suits are optional, although you should note that these can interfere with the sensation of even the best lap dances. OK, I forgot the question now. [Nada] Should a customer first get permission from a dancer before they cum, or should a customer just cum and then discretely warn the dancer to stop without admitting they actually came? What's the etiquette for this sort of thing? [SubSonic] Ah yes, thank you. What a nice boy. You'll make a wonderful son-in-law someday. A customer *absolutely* should ask a dancer for permission to cum. And you can't just ask any old dancer, it has to be the dancer that you're dancing with. If Tiffany says you can cum, but you're actually dancing with Bubbles at the time, that doesn't count. (In this case, Tiffany's permission would be an example of "dancer politics.") Not only that, you also should ask the bouncers, the DJ and at least one fellow customer, if possible. Remember, your orgasm is the world's business. Some clubs have sign-up sheets for orgasms; keep your eyes peeled for this the next time you go.=20 On the other hand, if you're wearing a condom, how would the dancer even know if you came? As long as you don't shriek like a banshee, cry out her name in the throes of orgasmic passion, or look too sheepish immediately afterward (and assuming, of course, that the condom performs adequately), your secret is probably safe, and so is her costume, as well as her crotch, thighs, butt, hands, feet, ears or whatever other body parts she might have used to get you off. My friend, splooge happens. Most dancers accept this as a predictable and tolerable occupational hazard, and as long as you are considerate and keep it out of their hair they will tend to be understanding, assuming that they find out at all. Some dancers are even "splooge trophy hunters" (e-mail idleeric for details), and absolutely *want* to know that they succeeded in their quest to give you the biggest bang for your buck. Others are more reserved, and prefer not to know. If a dancer is carrying a piece of cloth around with her, which she spreads on the laps of her customers before initiating her dances, you can probably assume that she has sploogaphobia, and won't want to hear about your accomplishment. The safest course? Don't ask, don't tell. And always, always be considerate of your dancer. If this is an issue in the first place, it's quite clear that she's being very considerate of you.