It's Saturday in Puerto Madero.
The lights get off.
The show is about to start.
Lucas Guzmán (37) takes off his father's, husband's, son's and merchant's clothes to
dress up as a stripper
.
It is the suit that has accompanied him for more than 14 years,
the "job" he chose and his main income
From him.
With the first screams, she goes out onto the field with one thought: to “fulfill” the audience of women of all ages who are there to have fun, alleviate prejudices or fulfill some fantasy.
They present him as the
"Argentine Vin Diesel"
, due to his enormous resemblance to the star actor of "Fast and Furious".
This is how he identifies himself on his networks, on the OnlyFans content platform and
even in real life
.
On
the Golden stage
, Lucas who is now "Vin" deploys the resources that, he knows, work for him.
He is the protagonist of a play with his own script.
He has every erotic movement timed and rehearsed so that nothing goes wrong.
It's the worst thing that can happen to him, he assures him.
During the two hours that the show lasts, he consciously sells a "product" -that's how he defines it- that he has been molding for decades in boxing classes and gyms:
his body
. His.
It all started almost like a
teenage game
.
Lucas was 23 years old, he loved to practice boxing but his 63 kilos were insufficient to face the moles he encountered in the institute he attended.
Until one day his life changed course.
A friend took him to a gay club and
opened his eyes to another world
: that of the night.
He began making cards for different albums and ended up waddling on the platforms of Pinar de Rocha.
It was the gateway to the stripper universe.
“The last thing I wanted in life was to be muscular.
As a young man he had a 'ribbed' body, but it was not enough to box.
So I decided to just stick with the gym and try stripping.
In a short time I started to do well and I quit my job as a butcher in a supermarket chain.
Today I live by undressing
, in addition to having a maxikiosk and a drink delivery.
With what I earn as a stripper, I can support my family.
In one day I charge what another person can charge in a week.
The rest are important undertakings because I know that
this activity has an expiration date
”, shares Lucas.
Lucas "Van Diesel" Guzmán, in the dressing room of the Golden, before going on stage.
Photo Enrique Garcia Medina
At the beginning of "his career", he remembers, he ran frantically between one show and the other through the suburbs, CABA and even the interior of the country.
Little by little he was finding the formula to settle down and earn money without going crazy.
His debut in the first leagues was at his current work house, the Golden, where he currently earns 10,000 pesos a night and above all "the plate" of being part of the stable staff of the Buenos Aires stripper
mecca
.
Among his colleagues from the Golden and other clubs, there are about 25 strippers between the ages of 25 and 45, many of whom have been circulating for decades at the AMBA night.
“We are always the same.
We all know each other”
, says Lucas.
Along with the classic face-to-face events, social networks also became their beacon of diffusion and source of work, he adds.
The stripper opened the @vindisel.golden account on Instagram to continue there with virtual shows.
With his posts of photos and videos of a few seconds, he arouses the desire of his more than 24,000 followers who ask him for
more images in private in exchange for different sums of money
.
“I receive messages 70 percent from men and 30 percent from women.
They want to see how the video or photo I posted continues.
They are willing to pay from 8 thousand pesos onwards.
I put titles or suggestive comments.
That is the hook.
I fulfill fantasies
,” she explains.
"There is everything.
You find people who start with simple requests and then escalate.
Also, with others that pass any imaginable limit.
I still have it clear: for money and for principles, I don't do anything
”, she underlines.
As an economically strategic complement,
since the end of 2021 he is also an OnlyFans boy
.
He came to the platform in the middle of the pandemic, encouraged by his friends.
He is one of about 750,000 creators of erotic content.
The biggest consumers of it there are also men.
Masked.
The stripper, in full show. Photo Enrique García Medina
“I signed up for OnlyFans without knowing her well, uploaded simple videos, and waited.
After a while I went back in and was surprised:
I had 100,000 pesos in my favor without doing anything
.
Since then I decided to dedicate more time to it”, says Lucas.
The equation closes him: he set a base of $4.99 to subscribe to his videos (the ceiling for content creators is $49.99) and he already has about a thousand followers among the nearly 150 million registered in total .
At the end of the month, he takes 80 percent of the total consumption of his images and 20 percent goes to OnlyFans.
In his case, the profit is between 300,000 and 600,000 pesos per month.
“If you put energy into it, you can make a considerable difference
,” says Lucas.
His case is an example of the
evolution of the stripper trade
, which landed in Argentina with the inauguration of the first Golden in 1989 and became a phenomenon in the early 1990s. Today, most of them work together on stage with the online.
The main reason: being part of the staff of the top clubs
gives them "plate" that they capitalize on the networks or on OnlyFans
.
In a balance of his real and virtual shows, the "Argentine Vin Diesel" tells that, as in any job, he had good and bad experiences.
Among the funniest, he mentions a
memorable birthday celebration for a veteran teacher
.
Hired by another teacher, they traveled with a “very gifted” friend to a field in Pilar and lost signal as soon as they crossed the gate.
The show started quietly until, as usually happens in all presentations, they were left naked at the last second before the end of the event.
It is a classic, the final image that “consumers” take with them.
“I noticed that the teachers were looking at us with surprise.
Something weird was happening.
When we left and I recovered signal on my cell phone, I received a message from the teacher who had hired us saying: 'Please, make the show light.
I'm asking you not to get naked because the birthday girl doesn't think she's into it.'
There we understood everything, ”she describes.
Bad experiences prefer to forget them.
Proposals of all kinds and tones came to him, some that bordered on crime.
He immediately discarded them in the trash of his networks to later block the user or the user.
“Perversion has no limits.
Sometimes you really can't believe what they ask you
”, she slides.
In terms of confessions, she admits that exceptionally and before being in a relationship, she went with one of the women who were in her shows.
“It can happen to anyone when you run into a person you like at work,” she says.
In addition to working at Golden, he posts to Instagram and Only Fans.
Photo Enrique Garcia Medina
When the lights come on and the camera with which he or she is filmed turns off, "Vin" becomes Lucas again, a "normal guy" with a maxikiosk and a delivery service, who trains two hours a day to stay in good physical
condition
. .
Also and above all, the father who enjoys preparing his 10-year-old son Aquiles in kids boxing and playing with his 2-year-old daughter Kira. "They are my pride and my life," he is moved.
His partner, whom he met on the networks, is very correct, low-key and trusts him.
Her parents, Silvia and Miguel, know what she does and they don't object.
His father helps him with the kiosk that he named “Toretto”, in homage precisely to the
mythical character played by Vin Diesel in the “Fast and Furious” saga
.
His mother is his adviser and banks on everything.
“She came to the Golden one day and bragged to her friends about her son,” the stripper laughs.
At 1.78 meters tall, Lucas registers 95 kilos of pure muscle today.
He is no longer the wimpy teenager who was fighting to make a name for himself in boxing.
He dreams of stopping work on the weekends to spend more time with his family.
His ultimate goal is to set up his own gym
.
“I am an ordinary guy.
I am clear that I am not what I show but I also know that it is what I chose, the product that I sell.
If I went back in time, I would dedicate myself to the same thing ”, he assures convinced.
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