Like from what I understand you're not allowed to touch the workers because then it becomes prostitution. So like. A bunch of boys just get together and sit down to watch some girls dancing naked? And they just kinda grin at each other and say "hey isn't it awesome when there's boobs?"
You can't jerk off so they just go to get boners with their buddies? You can do that at home. You can just watch porn with the fellas or have a circlejerk.
I've never understood why it's seen as a straight masculine thing to go to a place where the only thing you can do is get horny with other men.
I mean - it is going to be completely dependent on your area but as someone who has lived in multiple big cities/college towns, it is not unusual for a strip club to have dollar wing/beer/shots nights.
As a gay man in college it used to drive me up the wall because inevitably, if we were drinking on a Wednesday, my straight fratboy friends would want to go to one of the clubs specifically because it was dollar wing night. I went with them a few times but not once did they ever suggest the strip club specifically to go watch the strippers. It was always 'we're hitting the club after the bar closes cause they're open til 4am and it's dollar wing night bro!!!', never 'lets go get lap-dances at the club!!' lol.
Not to say that there aren't weirdos/men who do go to strip clubs specifically to satisfy their horny urges via private dances - but to this day, 8 years out of college, I have a friend who is literally married and will still occasionally go to the strip club WITH his wife specifically for food after they've been out drinking. (To be fair to them, they aren't hitting a dive-bar type strip club - they go to one that is pretty popular in their area for the food and charges like $20 for a plate of nachos; but still, it is a strip club)