Can't disagree with y'all more, I loved the go-go dancers lol they brought a different, more adult vibe to the event. In my group, the girls and the gays seemed to love them the most, while the guys mostly acted cool like it was no big deal. At the time, there were plenty of half-naked male dancers in the Bill & Ted shows too.
I understand they dealt with a lot of harassment, and I'm not trying to minimize that or question anyone's choices. But if performers were willing to take on the job, I'd have preferred better security, clearer boundaries, and stricter enforcement against harassment rather than simply removing the dancers altogether. Isn't this what we're asking for for the scareactors in general?
The event was already catering to people's more carnal enjoyment of violence, so it feels strange to dismiss dancing as somehow “low brow” just because it's sexual-ish. This is the same event that heavily features freakin' Terrifier afterall. To me, it was part of the event's adult atmosphere, in the same way spiderweb and fog are aeshtetic horror choices, and combined it created a very unique effect that only Horror Nights had. And I wish they had found a way to make it safer rather than eliminating it entirely.