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screaminpeachez
02-25-2005, 08:07 AM
back when i first started dancing i told a customer my real name. the first name only next thing you know this 40 something year old guy was enrolled in several of my college courses. i got rid of him by threatening him with campus security but, needless to say i never did it again. i dance by a very fake sounding name but, now when they ask i just tell them another fake but realer sounding name.

showgirlschloe
02-25-2005, 09:57 AM
To me, a smart dancer has three names.

- Her "stage" name by which she is announced at the club.

- Her "real" name which she tells no one who doesn't need to know it.

- Her fake "real" name which she tells a customer to make him feel like he has knowledge of some inside secret.
:)

That's exactly how I do it. If a customer said his name was Godzilla Pinball Twinklebop though, I would laugh and say nice stage name. If you are a Seinfeld fan you know the name Art Vandelay, there was a vip-er one night that said that was his name and I was the only girl who got it. Needless to say I spent the evening with him and made lots of money. I don't want customers pushing to get my real name, so why would I push them.

Phil-W
02-25-2005, 06:48 PM
I'm friendly with several dancers in the UK. In consequence, I must admit to becoming aware of quite a few real names as they've been let slip in conversation, but I figure you should not call a dancer by her real name unless invited by her to do so.

I have found this slightly bizarre on occasion. I was giving a dancer, (who's been a good friend of mine for a couple of years), a lift home recently. She asked me if I would give another dancer, who is a friend of hers, a lift as well. Now I have known this second dancer's real name from some time now, because my dancer friend let it slip.

We thus drive home. During the trip my dancer friend is calling the second dancer by her real name, while I am still calling her by her stage name. All three of us know exactly what is happening, but we still manage to keep it up for 30 or so minutes until I drop one of them off.

As i said, a slightly bizarre experience.

Phil W.

ami
02-25-2005, 10:16 PM
I always hated being asked.... thats why I started going by ami, I look like an ami, hardly anyone asked then.........

If they did ask I had a fake 'real' name.

But I dont care what people tell me thier name is. some people dont like the name thier parents picked out, and frankly its not like they had a decision in it..... I dont care much for my real name, but I have had it so long and used it so much that I am kinda stuck with it...... so much so that I didnt even change my last name when I got married......

people I meet go by all kinds of names, mostly animal related, like wolf, kat, hawk, even fish... Its not unuseual for me to hear a name like "godzilla", I would prolly just ask if they prefer just zilla or godzilla.......

rayne808
08-08-2005, 08:20 AM
i also come off as "the girl next door" and often have guys who want to know my life story. especially guys who buy a VIP (half an hour where i work) and want to just talk, rather than having me dance.
for these occasions i have a whole "life" concocted. I tend not to waver very much on the "details" of my story from guy to guy. I know that it sounds more credible if they hear the same story every time they come in - and they tend not to question it.
guys who want to talk about my real name rather than getting a lap dance, also get to hear that Rayne (my dancer name) is my real name. if they push me i tell them that next time I'll be sure to wear my name tag - because they never question the name on the tag of the checker at wal-mart. usually that makes them realize how silly it would be fotr them to continue to push the subject.

Clark
08-08-2005, 07:51 PM
Ever since I started doing amateur night, I run into women all over who want to know my real name. I just tell them. There must be hundreds of Dans around here anyway.

I never ask for real names, but I know quite a few now. Only came on a couple legitimately (co-worker got hired on, one used her real name in a bikini contest rather than her stage name). A customer told me another and in one case one of dancers was talkign abotu her roommate (also a dancer) and used the wrong name.

For the most part, I don't really call people by any name. I never ask for real names. As far as I'm concerned, a name someone picked out is more legitimately theirs than one they were assigned anyway.