One of the points of the film is how ordinary and hard- working these lusty ladies really are. Query and her sisters have been drawn to The Lusty Lady establishment because it has a reputation as one of the cleanest, safest, most well-managed peep joints in town. It even has women managers, which seems somehow reassuring. Sick days are verboten. If you don't show up or find someone to sub for you, you're outta there.
Racism is blatant, with women of color getting fewer and less desirable shifts.
The final straw for the strippers is when they discover that customers have been surreptitiously shooting video of them and some of the footage appears on Internet sites. Negotiating a contract is a tense and tedious process. Leave it to management to play hard ball and even lock out the women. These scenes of the bargaining committee in endless discussions, pent up in seriously ugly board rooms, ring true. The movie is given extra tension with the upcoming visit of Julia's mom to San Francisco.