I’m Jewish and a survivor of 8 years in Yeshiva and still speak Hebrew; but I don’t identify with any race or culture and have no more allegiance to or concern for Jews or Israel than I do for any other person or nation. I have absolutely no relationship with them, but I have about 100 cousins on my mother’s side who are hard core Lebovitch Hassidim in Brooklyn and Israel because each of her 5 sisters all had like 10 kids and they’ve all done the same. Last contact with any of them was in high school when they used to try to bribe me with Grateful Dead tickets to come to their Passover dinners and shit.
I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that Hassidic men tend to be sort of gross from the point of view of any sex worker. The hair and beards and accents and their weird way of interacting with women and all black wardrobe with the Jewish equivalent of Mormon magic underwear all just makes for an unpleasant experience, I’m sure. Anytime I’ve ever seen them in strip clubs, they never tipped at all and it was just creepy as fuck watching them there, always on Saturday night after sundown, knowing the incredible hypocrisy of living the way they do and then violating all of it in (almost) the worst way possible. At Flashdancers, there used to be a regular,,,had to be about 70,,,beard down to his stomach, filthy white shirt untucked from his pants and probably the creepiest and grossest way of interacting with the girls that I’ve ever seen, and I used to live in strip club as a customer, and as a writer for “Mentertainment” and having worked security at two clubs and managed the day shift at another where my wife was dancing.
This fucking guy was a complete spectacle and I just couldn’t avoid staring at him. He’d reach out and grab girls who were walking by him totally inappropriately and basically grope any girl who actually stopped to talk to him. When he got dances, he interacted with them as though they were grinding on him because they couldn’t resist his charms and he had to continually be told to watch his hands or have the girls remove his hands from trying to dig into their g-strings and shit. He’d talk to them inches from their faces oblivious to how many times they backed up to try to maintain some personal space and his entire vibe was like an idiot who really thought these girls were into him. A lot of girls just refused to dance for him and the ones who did always looked completely disgusted when they had their backs to him...when they saw me watching, they’d always either roll their eyes or give me a look that communicated how creeped the fuck out they felt.
As far as “interpreting” religious laws, that’s a form of rationalization common to all religions, just like the classic Catholic girl who sucks cock and gets fucked in her ass for years before having vaginal sex because she wants to remain a “virgin.” Same deal with these weirdos: they aren’t even allowed touch a women other than their wives, even to shake hands or anything. I can’t take my fucking eyes off them in strip clubs, picturing their lives as pious men of Talmudic learning and shit while they sit there staring at, but having absolutely no interaction with, naked women on stage. I can totally understand why Jewish friendly would be a thing in sex work.