yeah, now i'm confused.

Well, sure. This makes perfect sense! From the Las Vegas Sun:

Strip clubs begin to see other benefits of women

By Abigail Goldman

Of their 3 a.m. strip-club sojourn, the sanguine tourists would later explain, the lap dances were not for the grind, but for the conversation and company.

The visitors - two women from California - each picked a private dancer from the lingerie armada at Seamless Gentlemen's Club and, well, chatted with entertainers at the going rate: $20 a dance, tip not included.

"It's sort of a bonding thing," said Ana Monje, 28, of her Saturday morning lap dance with Raven, a black-maned Seamless stripper in a white bustier. "It was kind of like a break from the guys. We talked about moisturizer."

Women, once only welcome through a stage door in heels, are being embraced as customers by a growing group of strip club owners who see in the softer sex big potential for hard cash. By recasting the strip club as an equal opportunity adult destination, some club executives say they have created a new level of legitimacy and reached a fresh crowd: wives and girlfriends, women everywhere, eager to size up the champagne room.

Not all local strip club owners think it is such a good idea.

For many clubs, the first step will require breaking an unwritten industry rule: no unescorted women allowed.

"There used to be a sense of proprietorship - the idea that this is a man's world once you come through those doors," says Stephen McWilliams, director of operations for The Men's Club, a Texas-based topless-club chain, and an August panelist. "There were hundreds of stories about women causing problems." Read more.

You know, I'm not really one to go to strip clubs. It's just not my thing. But far be it from me to judge what others do for entertainment. Having said that, I must say I'm not really sure if it's such a good idea to cater gentlemen's clubs to a female clientele.

I think there is an expectation for men who go to a strip club that it's not going to turn into a Lifetime Network gossip session.

I'm not at all against female bonding; just confused as to why it's got to be at a strip club.

Seriously.