TW: This story includes public exhibitionism, and sex without consent.
Sasha awoke the morning after her performance for the investors at Valentino's with a knot in her stomach. She had slept poorly. Her mind was racing with thoughts and fears about the prospect of performing as an exotic dancer.
Sasha was ambivalent about the idea. It ticked most of the boxes for her exhibitionist fantasies, but the risk of being caught by someone she knew was a serious deterrent. Additionally, she did not like being blackmailed. Chidi Nguyen, one of the minority investors at Valentino's, could not have been any more clear if he had come out and said it directly: if Sasha didn't perform at his strip club, he was going to call Sasha's father and reveal all her dirty secrets. Even if stripping might otherwise have felt like a fun idea, being forced to do it on someone else's terms did not feel fun at all.
Sasha had weighed her options. On balance, the risk of seeing a friend or colleague in the audience seemed less onerous than having to confront her father's disapproval. Sasha was uncertain of this choice, but at least for now, caving to Chidi's demands seemed like the path of least resistance.
"So, John..." Sasha said to her boyfriend of five years.
"So, Sasha..." He replied without looking up from the Saturday morning paper.
"There's one detail I omitted last night." She confessed.
John looked up inquisitively. "Oh? And what might that have been?"
"One of the investors, Chidi Nguyen is his name, he owns that strip club -- The Landing Strip. He really really wants me to come dance there on Amateur night next Thursday." She told John only what he needed to know. There was no need to alarm him by disclosing that Chidi was threatening her.
"Oh damn!" Said John, looking up with wide eyes. "That's next level stuff."
"I kind of want to do it." Sasha reported. "But how would you feel about it?"
"It's your body, baby." John replied, comfortingly. "You can show it to whomever you want. Could I come and watch?"
"You had better come and watch!" Sasha exclaimed. "I wouldn't feel safe without you there."
"Well, then, I guess we know what we're doing next Thursday night!" John enthused, as he grabbed Sasha's butt and pulled her in for a kiss.
In any given moment over the next five days, the pit in Sasha's gut seemed to last an eternity. Yet the days themselves almost flew by.
Sasha obsessed about her preparation. Sasha pondered what to wear, how to dance, how to move. She and John watched movies featuring strippers every night that week.
The films gave Sasha a lot of ideas, but didn't quell her anxiety. Dancing, nude on a stage, in front of dozens of strange men, seemed like a daunting proposition; doing it under duress only made it more so. But this was the bed that Sasha had made for herself. She felt that she had no choice.
When Thursday evening arrived and Sasha landed back home from her work at the bank, she stripped naked in her bedroom. She had begun to assemble her outfit when John returned from his own job. Few things pleased him more than reporting home to find his girlfriend waiting for him in the buff. He hugged her and ran his hands up and down Sasha's smooth round behind.
"Hey, I've got an idea!" John exclaimed. "Reverse strip for me! Let's put on some music and see how sexy you are while you get dressed."
"That does sound fun!" Sasha agreed. "I need a drink first, and then let's do it! I think I need to be at the club in about an hour."
John put some 70s funk on the stereo and poured them each a glass of wine. Sasha sat on the corner of the bed facing John with her knees splayed. She slowly rolled a sheer black stocking up each leg, looking and John and licking her lips as she did. Sasha fastened the black lace garter belt around her waist, and she bent forward to attach the straps to the tops of her stockings. Wanting to stay bottomless for John as long as possible, Sasha next turned her back to him, arching her hips towards him as she donned her matching black lace bra. It fastened in the front, and Sasha moved her butt in big circles for John's enjoyment as she hooked the clasp between her small breasts. She pulled a tight black cotton t-shirt over her head, now facing John so he could admire her sex and the little black landing strip she had grown over the week. Languorously Sasha pulled her tight stretchy mini skirt over her thighs. The bottom hem of the skirt fell just north of the tops of her stockings. It rode up slightly when Sasha walked, exposing a horizontal strip of pale skin on each thigh. Sasha sat back down on the bed hiked the skirt above her hips, and teasingly eased a lacy black thong over her feet, past her knees, and into position, before smoothing down the skirt, easing her feet into strappy black stilettos, and performing a little twirl for John.
"Well?" She inquired nervously.
"Extraordinary. Spectacular. There aren't enough superlatives for you." John gushed. "Do that backwards, and you'll have men hurling their cash at you all night long."
John's words reassured Sasha, but she was still nervous. What if men tried to touch her? What if she saw someone she knew? Worse yet, someone from work? What if they thought her dancing sucked? What if nobody liked her? How humiliating would it be to stand naked on stage in front of a group of strange men and be ignored? Or booed?
These thoughts were not helping. But Sasha had no choice but to forge ahead. She finished her wine, and John drove her to The Landing Strip.
As soon as they stepped inside, Sasha felt overwhelmed. The PA system was booming loud music that resonated off of the walls. She looked around, taking in the substantial room. There were one large main stage, and two smaller ones. All three featured stripper poles. The floor of the club was filled with cocktail tables, each surrounded by several comfortable lounge chairs, all facing the nearest stage.
The club was not very full. The fire marshal permit inside the front door said the capacity was 240 people. There were not even one-fifth of that number present. Many of the tables were empty. Some had only one or two men sitting at them. There was a couples drinking together at one table. There was a small group of young men standing around the bar at the back of the club. Young women in various states of undress were dancing on the stages, while others circulated through the crowd. One or two were completely naked, but most were wearing lingerie. They would drape their bodies around any unoccupied patron and purr in his ear.
Chidi Nguyen saw Sasha enter and stepped forward to welcome her. "I'm glad you came." He said. "I recognize John from your performance at the restaurant. Nice to meet you in person, young man."
Chidi extended his hand to John. John shook it firmly. John vaguely recognized the fifty-something club owner from the video call during Sasha's masturbation performance at Valentino's the prior week. Sasha had kept John ignorant of the threat that drew her to The Landing Strip that night, and he was utterly oblivious to the niggling sense of dread that Chidi elicited from Sasha.
"I'm pretty nervous." Sasha confessed. "But here we are!"
"John, why don't you get yourself a drink and find a seat. Sasha will be dancing on the main stage -- I need to give her an orientation." Chidi handed John a drink coupon, and John thanked him before sliding away to the bar, leaving his beloved Sasha in Chidi's care.
Looking at them from across the room, they could have been father and daughter, John thought. He also contemplated how creepy it would be for a father to have his daughter stripping for him, and banished those thoughts from further consideration.
Chidi introduced Sasha to the DJ, who greeted her and shook her hand. Then Chidi took her to the dressing room behind the stage.
"Here's how it's going to go." Chidi told her. "You're one of several women dancing tonight -- we have the regular staff, and then there are two or three other amateurs signed up to compete tonight. You'll dance twice -- first at 7:30, again at 8:30. Each dance is three songs -- usually girls get topless during the first, bottomless during the second, and dance fully nude during the third. You can keep those stockings on if you want -- some men like that. Whatever tips you get, you can keep. The guests aren't allowed to touch you when you're on the stage. If they do, the bouncers will kick them out immediately."
Sasha found this last detail reassuring. She was glad to know that there was security looking out for her.
"At 10:00 we'll ask the audience who they liked best, and the winner gets $500 -- in case you need the money." Chidi chuckled.
"I don't," Sasha responded, "but I'll take it if I win it."
"That's the competitive spirit!" Chidi encouraged her. "When you're on the stage you can do whatever you want -- you can touch yourself, you can use the pole, you can get close to the men sitting by the stage and expose yourself to them. We've even got a box of dildos over there by the stage door." Chidi gestured towards a box on a chair next to a doorway with a curtain hanging in it. "Feel free to grab one and use it if that excites you. They're all clean." Chidi said emphatically, as if that would be the issue that made a difference. "Between your performances, you should circulate through the club and get the patrons to buy drinks. You can stay nude or get dressed again. That's your choice. I like you nude, by the way."
Chidi cupped Sasha's left glute as he said that, giving it a squeeze through the thin fabric of her skirt. Sasha wanted to swat away Chidi's presumptuous hand, but she was scared to offend him or even to say no to him.
"Thank you?" Sasha responded, uncertain whether Chidi's last comment had been a compliment or a command.
"We don't normally let the amateurs work the VIP rooms in the back, so don't worry about that tonight." Chidi offered, his hand still caressing Sasha's behind.