ABSTRACT
Attending nightclubs is a relatively prominent activity amongst young people today. According to the Home Office publication Safer Clubbing, an estimated four million young people each week attend the thousands of clubs in the UK. The culture of 'drug selling' is another intrinsic aspect of club culture. Clubbing mainly occurs at night, and buying and selling ecstasy and other 'dance' drugs is a prominent feature of an illicit nighttime economy. Drug sales within clubs potentially differ, and the data suggests a club environment containing a drug culture complete with a drug economy. This chapter explores and analyses the role of club security in regulating and managing this economy. Club culture has been described as fluid, fragmented, and difficult to consider 'subcultural'. One tangent of bouncer culture within the club included those who sold ecstasy and cocaine. The chapter demonstrates the operational processes these bouncers exhibited when selling these drugs and the overall context of this processes.
