View Full Version : Why did you come to SW?
High_Heel_Lover
04-09-2008, 08:06 AM
Aww well glad you are here :)
TheTempest
04-09-2008, 08:09 AM
I like this site. I really wish the Hustle Hut was ingrained in my brain... I'm so bad at hustling.
StuartL
04-09-2008, 08:32 AM
I first visited for business reasons. I realised quite soon after that most users of this site are in America so there are no business reasons. But people seemed friendly and the level of discussion in the Dollar Den was very high at the time - so I stayed.
How time flies...
Chicagoeditor
04-09-2008, 08:38 AM
I'd known three dancers IRL locally, and really enjoyed them as drinking/conversation mates. So I wanted to meet more. But I've come to rely on SW for much more--particularly the advice in Body Business, as well as the smart, tough, no-nonsense posts of some many of the veteran members, female and male.
SundayMorning
04-09-2008, 08:40 AM
I came here because I wanted to learn as much about stripping as possible before I dove head first into it. I pretty much wanted to make as much money as possible as a stripper and stripperweb gave me the know-how and confidence to do so.
Yep!
now I think of a lot of the women on here as my sisters almost... I adore them, count on them, argue with them, get mad at them, forgive them, moun and celebrate and enjoy life with them.
Yep!
I've made some amazing friends and found the sort of rapport and sisterhood that I just don't really have IRL. My guy friends on here are fantastic too, don't get me wrong. I'm just not used to having female friends so it's a huge novelty for me to have such a strong girly support system. I've gotten so, so much out of this community and I am so appreciative of the members here for making it possible.
AudreyLeigh
04-09-2008, 08:42 AM
Its been so long I dont remember why I came to SW... I think its because I had been out a while and just started back and was doing so poorly... that doesnt happen anymore tho! I love sw.
CuriousJ
04-09-2008, 09:15 AM
Been a while I think I was surfing for porn and was drunk.Found it through a link decided I would check it out since I was into the whole club scene at the time.
Since then have found quite a few cool people here kinda stopped drinking a few years ago so that part has changed(for the better).
muhuwahaha
04-09-2008, 09:18 AM
obvious reasons of course;)
TheTempest
04-09-2008, 09:21 AM
Oh yeah... and I like boobs. That was a big deciding factor for me to join SW.
Mr Hyde
04-09-2008, 09:45 AM
I came for heavy doses of drama and infighting
VegasPrincess
04-09-2008, 09:53 AM
Found this site on google back in 2005. At the time I was really unhappy with where I was working (an incident with another employee, also known as me stupidly fucking the DJ where I worked, had forced me quit) and I couldnt talk to or vent to any of the girls I worked with. And all my dancer friends were like you're being stupid, come back to your old club, which I later did lol.... but I couldnt vent to them so I vented to y'all. I loved the comraderie between the girls and the great hustle advice.
I stayed because I love the friendships I have made on here ans the support from y'all....
kaiarose
04-09-2008, 09:56 AM
Back in 2005 when I went back to dancing after I had my daughter, I was looking to up my game. I had never really been a good hustler (and am still not all that great!) so I needed some tips. So I looked up "Exotic Dancer" on Google. The first site I got was that stripper FAQ. That was really useful but I wanted more. I wanted a site where I could ask questions and get answers from real dancers. So I checked out the next site which was Stripperweb. I found exactly what I needed. I remember I answered one of the questions about girls sitting with guys for free etc...Well I happened to be one of those girls at the time and I chimed in and boy did I get flamed!! But every newbs gotten learned. Now I'm addicted to this place and probably couldn't leave if I wanted to!
The End...
I came here when Codex (another forum) was going trough misogynist phase and some one from there tried to troll here and posted link. I had no idea what sort of place this was but read a few topics. I decided to stay and read more after reading some valuable information in CC like not ever wearing sweatpants to SC ;)
wasfatboy
04-09-2008, 11:04 AM
am an old lurker, probably the oldest here. lurker that is.
i followed the Moo Cow mistress here in 2003. i met her in a little club in round rock tx called Joy of Austin. i was stuck there for 2 weeks for work and B and the girls befriended me. i just wanted to come in sit and have a meal and a drink and the the club was the only thing in walking distance to my hotel. i learned there that dancers are more true real people and my stereo types were blown away.
i have used this forum to get advice about issues i could never even think of asking my face to face or other online friends. ive seen lots of commings and goings on this site. some good some very sad. but it always seemed the "old guard" was around to help honest newcomers and to keep the trolls and players at bay.
im concerned now that there seems to have been a "cleansing' of the veteren members, that the original personality and family of this site will be "cleansed" also.
im not leaving, im like the lurker under the floor boards. i just keep my eyes and ears open and watch how it all plays out.
i just hope this situation doesnt tarnish the forums pole.
red red red
04-09-2008, 11:05 AM
I found stripperweb after I'd been dancing for a few months through some random internet playing. I stayed because I'm sort of shy in real life and was largely terrified of the dancers I worked with... here, it felt more like a meeting of peers, and I liked that. Just knowing that there were others out there was tremendously reassuring to me, especially when I got tired of explaining every little last detail to my non-stripper friends.
I remember "the gauntlet." When I first started posting, there was some thread about "whores" in the couch dance room and some girl was ranting about another dancer making out with a customer. I objected to the use of the word "whore" for this (although I've somewhat gotten used to it now) and said something sarcastic about how anyone who'd ever seen Pretty Women knew that whores didn't kiss on the mouth. People assumed that I was a dude calling strippers whores and flames ensued. I was like, uhhh... reading comprehension much? and stayed quiet for awhile after that. I'm still fairly quiet on this site. I've just never been a very prolific or consistent poster, but I do enjoy and get a lot out of Stripperweb.
I'm happy here. It sucked to sort of witness all the recent drama and only partially know what was going on because I'm not as invested in the site as some of its members. But I basically have no problems with it.
MeanGirl
04-09-2008, 12:59 PM
Im in my fourth year dancing now, but I was dancing for a few months and just knew there must be other girls like me who had tips that I hadn't thought of for hustling. None of my dancer friends thought of dancing in terms of sales, and after finding what I was looking for on SW I was giving tips to veterans IRL. For about the first year, I couldn't get enough info and tips and after that I sort of came into my own, of course still learning all the time. I do have to say,however, that with all the recent drama, I could certainly do without SW. It has become more a source of poor entertainment, rather than a tool. A few months ago,I would have paid a monthly fee for SW and it's invaluable resources, but now I'm not sure i want it and it's free.
Paris
04-09-2008, 05:22 PM
Now I will forever mentally dub you "The Great Gatsby":tophat:.
I had two incarnations with clubs and dancers before I found SW.
When I first graduated from college, I would throw these wild theme parties in my home and invite pretty much everybody who wanted to drop by. It was close to Georgetown University Hospital, so it drew doctors in scrubs, dental students, law students and neighborhood folk. People that needed to blow off steam, and generally people who were exceedingly polite, even when completely hammered.
I needed hott girls to host and dress up depending on the theme, and I'd already been to my home club a few times, but that was a few years before then when I had to save up forever for each visit because I was a young, poor, struggling and yes, pathetic, college student and even then I sort of knew instinctively that dollar bills were not going to cut it.
Anyway, I hit it off with a few dancers and hung out with them and when it came time for the parties a few years later, I asked them to come by and bring their friends and earn some extra money as French Maids or Star Trek cast members or Miami Vice chicks or as croupiers or whatever theme we had, plus tips and whatever car some rich young med student would end up buying one of them.
The guests were all exceedingly polite, but these girls were simply awesome. They were natural performers, entertaining and funny. The parties became a sensation, and it was all because of the girls, of course. They also made a ton of money and didn't even dance.
It was then, during that party phase, that I became hopelessly charmed and forever enamored with dancers. The smart, witty, clever, charming and intense ones, with their own measure of freakiness, of course. I thought then, as I do now, that that specific breed of dancers are the thoroughbreds of the species.
Fast forward to the period after my divorce, where I was traveling endlessly, working way too hard, under insane pressures and barely able to hold it together on the air. I found my way back to my home club, which is a "relationship" club, no laps or contact at all, but a whole lot of sitting around drinking and talking and clubbing around town. I also took the royal tour of clubs in the U.S. and a few scattered in Europe, but I was always drawn back to my home club.
When I went out in search of information on the Web about clubs in general, I couldn't find anything. I tripped across SCL, which was full of blind reviews written by illiterates who were obnoxious and overbearing asswipes and that was simply depressing. I clicked around one day and a remote site had a link to StripperWeb. I took one look at SW, smiled and said, "OK, this is where the thoroughbreds hang out."
I lurked and read everything. For months. When I thought I had the etiquette, personalities and proper posting down for both pink and blue, I dipped one toe in the water and put my first post on pink. It was a complete disaster.
The next day I discovered, to my utter horror, that FBR had moved it over to blue. Oh no. No, no, no. It was not written for blue. I scrolled down and sure enough, CP had flamed me so badly it ignited my hair. So began my initiation into StripperWeb.
I soon discovered, after a few months, that this community is simply a small miracle. Nowhere else have I found people with that magical combination of intelligence, compassion, humor, dedication, intensity, honesty, sexuality and simple humanity. The way the dancers shared, encouraged, and supported one another was inspiring. It was, and is, a safe haven. That was what I found so compelling, because I have always sought to be the "safe haven" in my home club -- the preferred hangout for dancers where they could make a lot of money, but could also relax and share and let off the hustle for a while.
I could not be more proud to be associated with this community. It's a subculture that is widely misunderstood and distrusted by the public at large, but that outside pressure produces internal cohesive bonds and profound loyalties.
For the last four years, I've written material on these boards and shared my life with its members in ways that I've never shared with anybody else, anywhere, ever.
Despite the recent difficulties, some of which have shaken me badly and made me question my worth to the site for the first time ever, it remains a remarkable, unique, special community whose best days, I'm convinced, lie ahead of it. I know for those who work and volunteer and contribute, that it's quite simply a labor of love. It certainly has been one for me.