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John, 36 and Louie, 35, who both asked to be referred to by first names only, are two of the many men who rule the stripping world. Although they’ve only been in the business since 1996, they are relative veterans. Most other businesses are fly-by-night affairs: a man taking calls on his cell phone, or maybe a girl who pulls a friend in with her. They could last a couple months, maybe—not nearly as long as John and Louie’s near-decade run. “They don?...
...Before Louie and John founded their business, Louie was an electrical engineer. It’s not clear what John did. He evades the question, claiming that he needs to maintain a tough reputation. The stripping business is a quick-shifting world, and the rumors of John’s mob ties deter others from stealing his customers by sending their strippers to parties that John has already booked...
...friends became business partners after a fateful bachelor’s party in 1996. “We thought we could do it better,” Louie says. In their spare time, they went out to local clubs to find strippers and started their own business. Eventually, the men committed full-time and rented an office. They bought out Shamrock, one of the oldest stripping agencies, and a slew of smaller ones with names like Top Shelf and Best Buns of Boston...
According to Louie, these imbalances fuel the feeling of discrimination she found in the study...
According to Louie, this creates an imbalance in the community, particularly at public schools...