[purplepolkadotgirl39269]

Hey, real live stripper in the wild here, weighing in:

Depends on the club, all the clubs I’ve worked at just leave a clean bar towel or three and a bottle of rubbing alcohol by the stage and if you want it it’s there. There’s a fairly strong correlation between how seriously a girl wipes the pole down and how much pole work she does. If you ever go on a strip club safari to observe poleing strippers in our natural habitat, but you don’t want to just stare at the stage all night like a creeper waiting for something cool to happen, watch each girl’s pole cleaning technique when she first walks on stage.

Re: your douche-in-law, he likely was going for one of two things. First is the heroically original “so you’re good at rubbing poles, eh?” (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) which only gets more disgusting the less single the dudebro who said it is. In the context presented here, this basically earns permanent Creepy Uncle status. Option two is that he was trying to make an even more unfunny “joke” about poles getting “dirty” from “those slutty pole dancing girls” rubbing their ladyparts all over them. Because when I think of body parts I want to use to hold my weight up with the magic of friction, the most sensitive part of my body is obviously the very first thing that comes to mind. But as you ladies know, cleaning the pole is to get rid of oils so as to avoid broken necks.

Basically dude is a creep. There are guys who have been to strip clubs and managed to *gasp* maintain whatever basic human decency they had outside the club whilst interacting with the people working there. Then there’s this guy. $100 says he tried to bang Every. Last. Stripper. that went near his table at his bachelor party. Probably didn’t even try to grossly solicit them first.