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Originally Posted by steven
Well, about the whole snack thing, I talked about it with my wife and she said basically snacks and hostess clubs aren't really all that different except that a hostess club implies a "richer" customer. I guess that would lead to "dates" or whatever during the daytime as well, although I've heard of that at a regular snack too. I asked if maybe it was a regional thing and she said she didn't think that was the case. I don't know where the distinction that you guys are talking about came from... but it sounds like there is a different distinction out there than my wife or I are familiar with, that's for certain.
I think that there are different variations of snacks basically. Some of them are "just a bar", but with that snack vibe, and others take that farther into an area that you guys are calling a "hostess club". Of course there are all those shades in between as well.
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I think that the question here is "Has your wife ever been to one?"
There is a huge difference between what people
think something is and it`s reality.
There are women who look for men at snacks - but they`re not employees. Some of them do fall into the lines of a pick-up bar. But I am thinking that it`s more ignorance (I don`t mean this in an insulting manner, but in the way of "lack of knowledge") in the case of your wife.
I didn`t used to think there was any difference, and that snacks were just seedier versions of the hostess clubs. And then someone I knew worked in one and set me straight. I think that some of the current reputation may come from it being fairly common for women who used to work in the hostess to start one up after getting older (and often after getting married and having kids).
My understanding though is that snacks came to be first, with women bartenders (something that was very controversial at the time apparently). Just having a woman doing the work part of serving and running the place in itself was sort of "naughty". Hostess bars were a major step up from this and went off on their own tangent.
The best way is to think of it sort of like a type of bar started back when it was "naughty" for a woman to show her ankles - with waitresses in knee length skirts.
Now imagine if nothing much had changed since then.
Sure, it may have started out with the idea of using the women as the sales point. And sure, the level of skin exposure may have been shocking at the time. But now, in a world of miniskirts, considering knee length skirts erotic is a bit of a stretch.
Of course, the reputation remains - despite the reality.