by Jessica Del Curto
Daily Lobo
For 20 years, Brent Kenton Jordan beat people up in the alleyways behind his business.
When he quit his job as a bouncer of various strip clubs in San Diego and Las Vegas, he had many regrets, he said.
"I suppose, like anything else, you become enlightened or educated or you bear things for as long as you can," Jordan said.
The 42-year-old ex-military man has written Stripped in hopes of dispelling the prejudices against strippers and the wrongdoings of the industry.
For instance, he said the FBI planted an undercover man in a club he worked at and caught owners paying bribes to city council members. This allowed clubs to have relaxed lap dance rules and bend zoning regulations.
Jordan said at Cheetah's, the club he worked at in Las Vegas, owners were in cahoots with the police.
"It's called the gold card," he said. "If a police officer comes in and he flashes his badge, he gets in free."
Jordan said club owners kept this unspoken alliance with police, who in return would turn a blind eye to the brutal beatings customers who didn't pay for lap dances would receive from bouncers.
"It could crush a business in a heartbeat to get on the wrong side of a police officer," Jordan said.
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He said in Las Vegas, college students would come from all over and not know the rules of the strip clubs. If they touched a girl the wrong way or refused to pay for a dance, they were beaten.
"I am not proud of this fact, but for 20 years, that was part of my job, to take people out back and get satisfaction for the entertainers," he said.
He was also expected to limit the number of minorities in the club, he said. The preferred client demographic is 30 to 50 year old Caucasian males, Jordan said.
"These are the people that buy the dances," he said.
Club owners know members of this demographic would be intimidated to walk into a club and be surrounded by African-Americans or Hispanics, Jordan said.
He named names in his tell-all book, and a lot of people are angry.
"As a matter of fact, if they catch me, I'm in a world of hurt," he said.
But along with the death threats, he's received calls from people who are glad he finally exposed the truth.
Jordan said he is aware that people may read this book and wonder why it took him 20 years to come forward.
"I can't really refute those who say that for 20 years you kept your mouth shut because you were making money," he said.
Although he is reaping the benefits from his book, he said he didn't do it for only personal reasons.
"If I tell the truth for my own benefit and it also changes the world, then so be it," Jordan said.
He wants the college crowd to read his book, he said, because they are the people who can fix the problems.
Despite the corruption, he said he has met the best friends of his life in the stripping industry. He also has a lot of respect for the dancers.
"Imagine an entertainer who goes against her family and society and has to deal with rude and ignorant comments that would crush your average person," he said. "She goes back day after day so her child may have a better life. That's a lot of sacrifice."
Jordan is a full-time student at the University of Las Vegas and said he wants he wants to be a screenwriter.
"I've had one career," he said. "Now it's time to look toward the next."
