May 2, 1998
With all due respect,
I am a regular guy, a consumer, who wants to see a feature...
I look at Sophie's Mentertainment calendar and see Chasey Lain at Stiletto II in May '98 so I call the club, and very rudely they say, "Chasey Lain is not coming to our club, not in May, or any time."
I have no attitude, no sarcasm in my voice, all I want is to see Chasey Lain and bring probably four or five friends with me. We do not feel we have to spend fifty dollars to join her fan club to find out where she's dancing. The club should be more than happy that we're taking the time to see her a couple of nights.
Could you email me an accurate calendar of her eastern appearances for the next few months?
Thanks wholeheartedly,
Zefron
Dear Zefron,
I spoke with the club, and they claim Chasey is coming. Check with them again on the week advertised.
Sophie
Editor's note: I called the club, again, on Friday of the week advertised for Chasey Lain's performance. They said she didn't come, that there was a scheduling conflict with sister club, lace, but was again scheduled to come in July. What's going on? Pulling people in with a hoax? I am going there this coming Tuesday, and will investigate further.
Stay tuned.
Sophie
Dear Sophie,
Are the girls tested for HIV at massage parlors?
A: No. Massage parlors are not houses of prostitution, unless they are, in spite of what they claim they do. Only in states/countries where prostitution is legal, are prostitutes are participating in HIV screenings, in order to hold on to their license. In the US I don't know of any such screenings.
<< As you probably know Joey Karson passed away this past February 27th, while performing in San Francisco. She had many fans and friends in the business who have written letters of encouragement and support. Prior to her passing, we were working on setting up an Internet site which is in its infancy and is now a memorial to her. I would greatly appreciate it, if you would update your information with the current information listed below. I would be pleased to supply some tasteful photos of Joey. I submitted one that is attached to this email. The following is an update of information regarding the Internet site, Fan Club address and email address. Internet site: www.JOEYKARSON.COM
Fanmail address: 3959 Van Dyke Rd. Suite 306, Lutz, FL 33549
email address: dear@joeykarson.com
If you would like more information regarding the circumstance of her life and passing, I would be willing to discuss it further. She started doing movies back in 1982 in NYC, before video.
Regards,
>>
Dear Readers,
Joey Karson was one of the most truly sexy feature dancers I have ever known. I will post pictures and my article about her performance at NY Dolls on the website (www.mentertainment.com) as soon as this magazine is delivered. Come and visit, pay your tribute to one of the fallen greats. Take care,
Sophie
DENSA TEST: Try this one and don't cheat.
You've heard of MENSA the group for geniuses with IQ's of 140 and above?
Well this test is similar, it's from DENSA. It's a lot more fun.
Give it a try:
Take this quiz, if you dare, and see how you rate.
Write down or remember your answers and DON'T CHEAT!!!!!
1. Do they have a 4th of July in England? Yes/No
2. How many birthdays does the average man have?
3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
4. How many outs are there in an inning?
5. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Yes/No
6. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
7. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
8. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half an hour. How many minutes would the pills last?
9. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
10. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
11. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5’ 10” tall. What does he weigh?
12. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
13. A plane crashes on the Canadian - US border. In which country do you bury the survivors?
14. What is the least amount of coins it takes to make 55 cents if one of the coins is a quarter?
DON'T READ ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOU'VE ANSWERED ALL THE ABOVE QUESTIONS!!
The Densa Test, Your Evaluation
Give yourself one point for each correct answer..... Good luck!
1. Yes, it comes after the third of July!
2. 1 Just one!
3. 12, all of them!
4. 6, three per side!
5. No - because he is dead!
6. 70, (30 divided by 1/2 equals 60)!!!!!!!!
7. 2, you took them, remember?
8. 60 Start with the 1st pill, 30 minutes later take the 2nd, then 30 minutes for the 3rd.
9. 9 (If 8 out of 17 die, all but 9 die, eh?)
10. zero...it wasn't Moses...it was Noah
11. meat, a butcher weighs meat!
12. 12 There are 12 -2 cent stamps in a dozen!
13. The survivors would probably rather wait until they die to be buried.
14. Three coins. One is a quarter, the other is a quarter and also a nickel.
Add up Your Score... How did you do?
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Dear Sophie,
Love your publication - it's a real service to the club-going public.
I need help - I hope you can answer 2 questions.
1. I'm beginning a job where I may travel a bit. Does your website have club listings around the country? Or is there some site or publication that does?
2. I live in Northern NJ. I'm looking for some "touchy-feely" clubs around. You once suggested I go to Hurrah's in Paterson which I do sometimes... but it's kinda old there. I've been to Foxy Lady in Brooklyn which is a bit what I'm looking for. Any other suggestions?
Your help will be much appreciated. Good luck with your site, etc.
Thanks. Paul
Paul, hi!
Thanks for writing. 1. Yes, the site has a recently updated US/Canada club directory at http://www.mentertainment.com/home/pages/dir.htm
2. With regards to the touchy-feely clubs: I don't know if I can help, I don't know, firsthand, which club is touchy-feely because it is illegal in all the states that I know, so people are trying not to do touchy-feely when I am around.
Good luck and let me know how you are making out.
Sophie
The Club
An Essay by Eye
When I had a lot of disposable income I disposed of it, and then some.
Before I took a good look at the impending disaster curve, I was already there. So, while I used to believe that God helps those who help themselves, now I say If the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. It works for me.
And just how does a cheap bastard get the good stuff?
The idea of prostitution never really appealed to me... strike that..... the idea did, but not the practice. Pay a girl X amount of dollars and.... hope that she'll be fair and more (tick tock) while you go through the motions of love (tick tock) and play by the rules (tick tock) while trying to get more (tick tock) and you better finish quick (tick tock) because your time is almost up (tick tock) and she's not into it anyway (tick tock) and her beeper is beeping (tick tock) and her driver is waiting (tick tock) and her pussy is dry (tick tock) and your dick is telling you the truth (tick tock).....
naaaaaah. I prefer something more spontaneous.
Lap dances... now that's the ticket....
how do you do? ten bucks... fine, and you? ten bucks... you're not like the others....ten bucks... they have no class...ten bucks... my boyfriend just left me...ten bucks... I need new shoes....ten bucks... let's go to the VIP room.....ten bucks...ten bucks...ten bucks...ten bucks...ten bucks... and I can't pay the rent......$$$$$$$$$$$$ bucks
naaaaah... I prefer something more, uh...... something less....... something...... anything......
I stumbled into "The Club" and ponied up to the bar. "Gimme the usual", I growled, and Ethel unscrewed a pint of Thunderbird and lent me a dixie cup. I sized up the talent and it was pretty grim. Climax was down to her bargain basement skivvies, doin' the backside humpty with a semi pro relief pitcher who couldn't bring the high hard one anymore, like back in the old days. Babygirl, the one with the big brass earrings, was seriously considering taking that Taco Bell night shift gig. It seems the hairstylist messed up bad. 15 more bucks and she could get a wig. Meanwhile she looks like a duck, a duck with very limited income potential at the moment. The others, whose names I don't dare ask for, lest they take that as a hopeful sign, are malformed..... usually something drooping, or oozing, flat where it should be round and vice versa. No matter how bad things get, they can always afford eye liner....... lots of it, and they ALL put out at the bar...... bigtime.
In the back room, where the duct tape is peeling off the heating unit, and a plastic trash bucket is overflowing with empties, two girls shimmy on a makeshift wooden platform. Gyno displays, trouser snake charming, beer bottle massage........ fellas waiting in line to git some. No rules, no zoning laws, nothing..... except what they learned and deliberately forgot in Catholic school way, way back. Paper Easter Bunny decorations are still up and make a nice counterpoint to dancers with legs akimbo seemingly ready to absorb the procreative fluids of the assembled multitudes, and issue forth like rabbits, maintaining the species for yet another day.
And then there was Betty, my diamond in the rough, my pearl among swine, or so it seemed in the inebriated haze. Pour me another and one for the lady, who wastes no time going for the johnson, here, there, and everywhere. A seat opens up at the far end of the bar, where the five and dime Nefertiti's act has expired. I'm stationed to get discretely worked on, such as it is, and it isn't discreet. I have a fistful of small bills and enough conversational know-how to extend this little powwow to the point of explosion. A one here, a five there, a couple more ones.... basically whatever I feel like... the subject of money never comes up, but something else does and she steers it through the flap, beyond the zipper, and into the land of the free and a big smile comes across her face and I purr like a cat and she makes all kind of blow job gestures, then tells me about the back room but I'm down to seven bucks and don't want to see her frown or wonder if that's all..... anyway she keeps pumping till her name gets called and I tuck it in, share a deep French kiss and say "later".
Dear Sophie,
I was at a nice club with pretty girls dancing. Then they sit at your table with you and for $20 they do nice table or lap dance. Later on they ask you if you're interested in a "private" room with them for an hour. They said it would be 100 for the room and 150 for the tip for the girl. $250 for this private room.
Out of naivete and curiosity, is there an expectation of more than dancing here. I did not know if there is the expectation of some sexual activity behind closed doors.
Or is that not what these rooms are for.
I did not have that much money that time. but I wondered what I should expect if I did take a chance.
Please let me know what is the expectation behind the private room.
Thanks
Todras
Dear "Todras,"
Nice clubs with pretty girls are not usually houses of prostitution: they have too much to lose. I know an exception or two, but they are really the exception, not the rule. On the other hand, someone with a vivid imagination and enough deprivation piled up can have sexual satisfaction without direct sexual activity actually going on. A lapdance is NOT sexual activity, yet I know of people who have orgasm during the interaction. Many more go to the bathroom and relieve themselves. And many others go home, and maybe do the same.
In my opinion lap-dance and private room activities are not good for you, because they overstimulate you, because they cause sex and the craving of stimulation to take over your life, this craving becomes a reason to work and make money, etc. But of course I am a woman, and I look at life from a different vantage point. For me life doesn't mean satisfying the cravings of those few square inches of skin between my legs. While early and uninvited sexual advances from a male in my family did turn me into a sex-machine for a few years, with therapy and self help methods, I overcame the addiction and replaced it with an accomplishing, a loving, perpetual growth and development, and with making a difference... this new focus seems to be much more satisfying. And I can also continue being this way, way into my eighties and nineties, and hundredth year, without having to buy Viagra, or sex, or anything at all. Or getting cramps in my arm and hand masturbating.
I hope I have answered your question. Take care.
Sophie
PS: I've also read in a book of a famous nutritional expert, that constant craving of sexual stimulation is a sure sign of mineral deficiencies. Once the deficiencies are handled, the person returns to normal life, finding work, marriage, friendship, sports, exciting again. For a brief period of 6 months I myself experienced constant horniness. With the help of the book, I analyzed from other symptoms what minerals might be missing, I found 4, replenished them by tablets, and today I have energy and peace of mind to work on the magazine, to read, to talk to people, and not worry that my hands reek of my juices when the doorbell rings.
Dear Sophie,
I had no idea that impotence/low sex drive were such problems that throngs of people had been waiting for a drug like this. Impotence is apparently a huge problem, and has many causes, including nerve damage, diabetes, prostate surgery. Let's not forget one of the main causes: Atherosclerosis in the penis and groin. Our society has a LOT of men with this problem - men who consider sex to be a crucial aspect of living, but have had to adapt to life without it.
Viagra is NOT an aphrodisiac, and is not designed for "low sex drive," unless that low sex drive is attributable to being discouraged about being impotent. Viagra enables the circulatory mechanisms to works, but the stimulation and desire must still be there, as usual. Keep in mind that impotence does not remove desire - just the ability to do something about it. That's the tragedy.
There is also some evidence that the pill may have some value for women who have lost their response mechanisms for similar reasons - hysterectomy, diabetes, other circulatory problems. You'll hear more about this in the near future.
Maraya
PS: There's also "green oats" aka "wild oats" aka "avena sativa", a natural herb that is used by men to remain harder longer and used by women to experience more powerful orgasms ("like rockets", I've heard).
Dear Sophie
I once read an interview in which Asia stated that she does not do interracial scenes because she does not want to lose her large fan base. I don't know what year the interview was done, but I would like to know if she has or is planning to do any interracial scenes (with black actors like Sean Michaels, Julian St. Jox, Jake Steed, Guy DiSilva or Mr. Marcus). If not, then I have news for Ms. Carrera. Any scenes that she has done are interracial because she isn't exactly white and many of her co-stars are. Also I am a fan of hers and happen to be black and I'm sure many of her fans are non-white and would probably stop supporting her if these are her true feelings. I would greatly appreciate a response.
Dear Reader,
I understand your upset. I haven't seen the interview you are talking about, so I don't know when she said what is written, if she said it at all. I think she knows better, but who knows.
Try not to get too upset. It is not the end of the world if a porn star has a different preference from yours. Really. It can be disappointing, but don't be upset over it. Please.
With "motherly" love,
Sophie
Dear Sophie,
I love your site, but is there any way you can put ratings on the massage parlors as to good or bad.
thanks, JR
JR
Sorry, I have no idea what would make a massage parlor good or bad... I know: good massage, pretty girls, good service, clean premises, enough parking, good/safe location. But what I hear is that patrons want sexual favors, and are willing to sacrifice my criteria of good for their criterion of good.
If you want to give me feedback on the ones that you know, according to my rating system, I would appreciate it.
Thanks.
Sophie
Here is how I sign every piece of mail on the internet: Sophie, Editor/Publisher of Sophie's Mentertainment (Authenticity and dignity in the adult entertainment industry) & Sophie's Mentertainment Online Ñ The best source for information on Strip Clubs in the Northeast Ñ maybe the entire world
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"You can have everything in life that you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want."
Hi I saw this link about the Kobe Tai fan club.....I know her very well...from my local hometown.....etc...anyway I tried to email her to this address listed on your site and I never received back any sort of reply. Which for her would be strange so I do not think that email address is in any way correct. :o) She was very close to my husband and me growing up. So both of us know that if it was a correct address, she would have written to us back.
Thanks
Kathe
Dear Kathe,
My guess is that if the mail wasn't returned as undeliverable, then the address is correct. It is another question that she may get thousands of e-mails a day, and maybe doesn't have time to answer them all... hoping, that some day she would have the time. I know, I've been there, I practically live there. I have an especially difficult time to answer people I know, because I have more at stake. So I put it off, till I hopefully forget.
Try to write again, and make it easy for her to answer one or two words, and if she can, she probably will.
Good luck.
Sophie
Dear Sophie,
On line I read the back issues and editorials. The item that impressed me most is the letter by Paul, "Addicted to Strippers", in the April 1997 issue. Does that guy write well or what. Or is the writer a woman, impersonating the quintessential male loser? Did you write it yourself?
Peter
Dear Peter,
I don't write letters to myself, ever. Sometimes I wish someone wrote to ask a question I'd like to answer, publicly, but my guiding lights are authenticity and dignity, so fake, inauthentic, make-believe wouldn't work for me.
Besides, I think women, including me, can't even fathom what goes on for a man, really. I am trying as hard as I can, yet, I am always brought back to track by some honest, and self-knowing individual.
Anyway, I am glad you are reading the magazine, that's why I am doing it.
Take care,
Sophie
Dear Sophie: Thanks for writing. I can't say I'm all that authentic, so I shouldn't expect it from others. Paul's story is told so well I find it hard to believe it isn't a professional job and Paul's job, which he hates, doesn't seem to be in the line of writing. Not that it matters, actually. I can appreciate the lesson either way. Best regards, Peter
Dear Peter,
From what Paul expresses he has a negative self-image, expressed overtly or between the lines. One need to have a reasonably high level of self confidence to consider writing and being published for a living. Not unlike public speaking, it is very high on people's fear list. It carries the chance to fail...
Take care.
Sophie
Dear Sophie,
I used to pick up your magazine a few years back before I moved from NY. I currently live in Arizona and there is nothing like Mentertainment here.
I travel to NY on a regular basis for business and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you now have a web site. I can now enjoy what you offer once again.
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