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Most people reasoned that it was all right for Pacman to make it rain in strip joints before he got into trouble. But … it was quite another to slip into a darkened, smoky joint for a quick peek just before his meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss his uncertain future. Not a good look. By then, Pacman was already dangling dangerously off the edge of professional athletics and was about to fall hard into NFL purgatory.
In light of this situation, we felt it necessary to explore the reasons why athletes like Pacman are seemingly are in love with strippers and strip clubs:
Youth, exuberance, money and raging hormones collide: They have plenty of discretionary income, little or no discretion, and they can fulfill their fantasies with no strings attached.
Easy conquests: Young, beautiful women who are mentally fractured make for easy sexual conquests.
Role reversal: In a strip club, the seduction equation is reversed totally and completely. In no other forum in American life can unattractive men reject statuesque, beautiful women.
The need to floss and receive adulation: Adulation becomes a powerful natural narcotic that many athletes cannot wean themselves from. Many athletes must feed the addiction, hence taking a garbage bag filled with thousands of $1 bills and dumping them onto the strip club stage accomplishes this objective rather quickly and effectively.
Soothing: Strip clubs have a calming affect on A-type personalities like competitive athletes. Many athletes find strip clubs great stress relievers and a place to bond with their comrades.
Free looksies: Athletes can objectify and ogle naked women in ways they cannot do in regular society — at least not without rebuke or consequences. Athletes can stare, yell, whistle — and oftentimes touch — naked women with impunity and not have to worry whether she’ll file sexual harassment charges.
Simple mathematics and reward: The athletes’ logic is actually simple and easy to understand, even if you don’t agree with it. They can go out on a date and blow through $1,000 and risk getting nothing in return. Or they can go to a strip joint and spend $1,000 to watch, converse with and sometimes have sex with nude women.
Whatever their reasoning, it is clear athletes should probably patronize strip clubs in the same manner as they should consumer their alcohol — in moderation. –terry shropshire
