Showgirls Bar 20 Review

Review by Matt Wilson

Showgirls Bar 20 is one of the many strip clubs in King Street, and you may think that all these places are the same. If so, you’re right. Ultimately, strip clubs are just there to let guys perv on hot chicks and get lap dances and not much else. Not that this is necessarily a criticism, but that’s just the way it is.

After the fellas pay a $15 entry fee and the ladies get in for free (on account of the probability of them getting bored staring at body parts they could see in the mirror at home), you climb up some stairs to The Show Room where the main stage is. It had been five years since I was last at Showgirls, and the look of the place has not changed one bit in all that time (though to be fair, I don’t think the decor is the venue’s main focus). Rock and rap songs from the late ‘90s and early ‘00s boom to get men in a party mood, from the likes of Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine, and Puff Daddy to name put a few. Interestingly, the Aerosmith ballad ‘I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing’ played during one of the fantasy dances when the naked dancer was washing herself with a sponge, making it more funny than erotic.

There are usually three strippers on the stage at a time, with all the other strippers going around chatting men up to con them into a $50 lap dance. There are also TVs around advertising $20 massages (though I think the sleazoids will be disappointed if they don’t get a massage “down there”), and also loops a montage of porno footage of girls touching either themselves or other chicks. The tinted booths nearby are where the lap dances happen, though you can see everything that happens in there anyway, so the term “private dance” is bull. Needless to say, subtlety does not exist at Showgirls.

If you’re a red blooded male, you obviously will be paying attention to the ladies more than willing to take their clothes off for your amusement. The girls are very flexible around the poles and go beyond being suggestive. However, they do tend to go a little over the top by climbing all the way up the pole, making it look like they are doing chin ups at the gym rather than trying to arouse the fellas.

It does not take long for these interchangeable dancers to become like mannequins that basically become part of the furniture. Unless you’re keen to have one of these ladies give you a private dance (and most guys there will be more than happy to oblige), having them come up to you all the time pretending to be nice is annoying. I had three strippers offer me a lap dance within five minutes and the last one cracked it at me because I was ignoring her after being hassled by the other two. You would think the strippers would be used to having some johns ignoring them by now, showing they do break character, hence break the fantasy they are trying to sell the fellas.

There are function rooms called The Velvet Room and The Board Room, where guys can sit down and chill with the ladies, so they’re a lot quieter than The Show Room (many partygoers have probably called The Board Room “The Bored Room” because of this over the years). Two other function rooms called The Arabian Room and The School Room double as Fantasy Rooms, where men can live out their sexiest fantasies. There is also a private area called The Dungeon that you have to travel down a dark staircase to get there, and the fact this room is not mentioned on Showgirls’ website gives this room a sinister vibe to it, making the mind boggle at the dirty deeds that probably happen down there.

You know how people say you really need to be drunk in order to get any sort of enjoyment from certain clubs? Well, this principle applies tenfold to strip clubs. Fortunately the bar offers a nice variety of booze, but if you’re the designated driver or female, it’s going to be a long night.



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