It first hit me that I’d been at City Paper for over a year when our publisher pointed out to me that Diamonds North opened a year ago.
I’ve had four strip club experiences in my 26 years. The first involved D.C. congressmen, the second, Pantera, and at the fourth I spent most of the evening serving as a translator.
At the third, Diamond’s grand opening and arguably the most pleasant, I met Ginger Lee.
I was making my second trip through the buffet line, Budweiser from the open bar in hand, when a girl in a white dress asked if I knew what the item I was scooping onto my plate was. It was dark and I didn’t. Maybe it was rice, maybe some strange potatoes, perhaps a cheesy souffle of sorts? I told her I’d let her know.
Apparently that worked as a pick up line, because minutes later she seated herself next to me at our table. All the Diamonds strippers were in black dresses, so I figured this was a particularly hot bartender, maybe a friend of an employee? After some small talk, she mentioned that she was only dancing once that night. “You work here?” I asked. “I’m a future,” I heard her say. (The music was loud.)
“A future? Is that like an intern?” I asked.
(Puzzled look)
“Are you in training to work here or something? What does ‘future’ mean?”
“I’m a FEATURE,” she said, but continued to smile and laugh.
I remembered the ticket had mentioned Playboy girls, so I said, “You must be the Playboy model.”
“No,” she responded, “but I’ve been in Hustler, and I’m all over Barely Legal. I’m in lots of videos. Have you seen The Big Swallow or Lesbian Teen Hunters?”
At this point I was speechless, so I dropped into journalist mode and started asking questions. She filled me in on what life is like on the road, as a “feature,” and on the joys and trials of filming porn in LA. She’s a nice girl, and it was really amazing to hear all of this coming out of her mouth, but not so absurd when you Google her name and see what’s often in there.
I had to take my open-bar-happy buddy home before Ginger performed, but I hear she put on quite the show with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. Diamonds was apparently a fan — her picture graced their ad for the next few months.
Watch this recent (clean) interview with her, and see if you’re as surprised as I was that this south Georgia girl, obviously very intelligent (and former nursing student), is getting busy for a dime. Hell, if you got it . . .
