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phillyvixen
12-07-2007, 07:21 AM
I just have to say I've really enjoyed reading all these stories!

LoveComesFromWithin
01-03-2008, 02:20 AM
i didn't even know what a stip club was. I was dating this boy who told me his ex worked at deja vu. i was always competing with his ex, so i called the information line and got connected to deja vu and asked about what i had to bring to work there... i thought it was like a showgirl in vegas... keep most of my clothes on and just dance on stage.

well i went there wearing my 8 inch heels and corssett. signed some papers asked if i could watch a girl on stage before i went on. then i took off my jeans and did the same thing. asked the guy if i was hired and he said, "what do you think, hey alexiss show her around!" found out that i had to give lap dances... never been the same, wow my life has changed so much...

i had just turned 19, private school taught, sheltered my whole life...

firekitten19
01-03-2008, 05:39 AM
I started after I got out if the Navy. I lived in Japan for 4 years and wanted to go back. I started to look for jobs in Japan on the web and came across a dancer/hostess job advertisement. I sent the my pictres and was hired. Went to Tokyo for 3 months and made decent money.

Polekitten
01-03-2008, 10:34 AM
I started to put myself through college like so many others. That was years ago and I'm still at it. Feeling like I kinda love it at the mo actually.

sexysunny
01-03-2008, 10:42 AM
i was still a virgin and i tried at seventeen but they wouldn't let me, so i had to wait til eighteen. i wasn't poor or anything, i was student and wanted more money for less hours work. i wonder if anybody else was a virgin when they started?

TheSexKitten
01-03-2008, 11:24 AM
I told a customer that I was a virgin when I had recently started. ;D ;)

Mily
01-05-2008, 10:44 PM
Before I joined the Air Force back in '01, I was working at a popular nightclub as a bartender. Part of our job was to get on top of the bar several times a night and dance (yes... JUST like "Coyote Ugly", LOL)... we had to wear skimpy outfits and bikini tops, etc; just like those girls. It was so much fun, and I loved entertaining the crowd, but I HATED it when the bar would get flooded with custies, and they would have to call me down from the bar to start pouring drinks again. 5 years later, when I got out of the military, I knew I wanted to be an exotic dancer because I didn't want to get stuck behind the bar again. I wanted to dance and be my own boss. No more slinging drinks, schedules, and being yelled at to get down. Just me and my dancing. On my own damn terms.

PhillyDancer1982
01-06-2008, 08:53 AM
I first contemplated stripping when I was 20, when a roommate was siphoning/stealing a lot of money from me(I later pressed charges). I mostly suggested stripping as a "threat" to this guy, because I knew that he was adamantly opposed to me stripping(he was controlling, possessive, and mentally abusive), but I wanted him to stop stealing my money because it was at the point where I couldn't pay rent or eat. Over a year later when I was STILL struggling with money and I couldn't find a decent job after college, again I contemplated it. But in reality I was too chicken to try it both these times, since I had a horrible case of stage fright, I didn't have any dancing ability, and I was deathly afraid that somebody would find out that I was a "stripper."


I was barely 20 and working minimum wage with crappy tips at some restaurant with HORRIBLE snobby customers.

Man I can sure relate to that! I was 22, had pretty much finished college, and was STILL only making minimum wage. At the time that I started dancing, I had a hostessing job at a restaurant that lacked both good pay, tips(I was never given my tips even though I was supposed to; they ripped me off), and sufficient work hours. I was in a position of financial devastation. My two biggest money concerns were: 1) getting money to pay my college tuition so I could get the diploma I'd already earned, and 2) getting my own apartment, since I was stuck sleeping on my friend's sofa at his mercy. Obviously the min wage hostess gig wasn't cutting it to say the least.


A co-worker decided meth or coke or whatever the hell he was doing was super cool and decided to start skimming from the cash register. He got caught, blamed everyone else... When my manager accused me of stealing after 3 years of working there, I gave him the finger (yea, so much for THAT reference, heh) and walked out.

Again I can relate...to an extent. When I was 15/16 and worked at McDonalds, I went from having a "perfectly on-the-dot counted cash register" to consistently being $10 or $30 short. This started happening to a lot of us, especially me(probably because they knew that I would be too unassertive to speak up about it, making it easier for them to steal). I realize now that there were drug addicts who were skimming the registers, and a few of them had managerial duties, which included access to the keys that opened the registers. >:( It is so angering to think of all the money I lost out of my paycheck.

Luckily I didn't get accused of stealing though, so for me there was no flicking off the manager or walking out of the job LOL...but years later at the hostessing job, I *did* "walk out"(more like phone in to say "Screw you guys, I quit") in a similar fashion. After the manager started being really mean to me and misunderstanding towards my unfortunate situation of having nowhere to go but my friend's sofa(long story), I started dancing and that's when I realized that I didn't *need* the bullshit hostessing job...so I called them up, told them how I felt, and when I saw that it was clear that the managers really didn't give a hoot if I stayed working for them or not, I quit on the spot. It felt really good to quit a job so bluntly and know that the job didn't matter! :D

Mily
01-06-2008, 11:30 PM
I started after I got out if the Navy. I lived in Japan for 4 years and wanted to go back. I started to look for jobs in Japan on the web and came across a dancer/hostess job advertisement. I sent the my pictres and was hired. Went to Tokyo for 3 months and made decent money.



When you tell custies you were in the service before you started dancing, don't you LOVE it when they ask you why you got out, and why you're doing "this?" ::)

Aine
01-09-2008, 06:50 PM
I was 21 when I started dancing. Had gotten married when I was 19, had a kid at 20, he was an abusive ass so I left him. Hooked up with a male dancer. Had always thought it would be cool to try dancing myself. On our way from California to Florida we stopped lots of places along the way. Stayed with some friend in OKC, went to Red Dog and had my first experience on stage. First song I ever danced to was Cradle of Love by Billy Idol. Stopped in TN next and danced one full night at Mouse's Ear. Finally made it to Florida. Wound up in Jacksonville. Figured it was a great way to make good money and I could support my daughter and myself without anyone's help so decided I would do it full time. Did the "bikini club" thing and Shady Lady was my home club, which later became Vixens after the guys from Centerfold bought it. Bounced around doing a night here and night there at Centerfolds and Wackos. Then I started dancing nude at The Doll House. Still kept working the majority of the time at Shady Lady. Started doing once a month trips up to Georgia to dance at The Red Carpet, topless and lots of quick cash from the police academy guys...lol. Danced for 3 years, had my fun, made my money, quit when I had about 9 months left before I graduated college. After I graduated I moved on to a regular job for what I went to school for. So that was it for me, it was a means to an end. Got me by, helped pay for my education, and I've no regrets. And if I had the choice to do it all over again, I wouldnt change a thing about it.

firekitten19
01-10-2008, 08:49 PM
When you tell custies you were in the service before you started dancing, don't you LOVE it when they ask you why you got out, and why you're doing "this?" ::)
It always makes me laugh. it is even funnier when you tell them you use to blow shit up while you were in the service. The look on their face is priceless}:D

Mily
01-10-2008, 09:05 PM
^LOL! I give most of them the classic line, "My job was classified. If I told you what I did... I'd have to kill you." Funny part is... is that I did have a Top Secret AFSC while I was in. So I'm really not bullshitting them. }:D

Paris
01-10-2008, 09:26 PM
Oct. 7 1998. Amateur night. Danced to Sound Garden's Spoon man. Won the contest. Switched careers;D.

holiday
01-12-2008, 11:38 AM
I got cast a stripper for a play and so I would go and research the role. I was already comfortable in clubs, I'd been to a lot of them with friends and boyfriends, so it wasn't taboo or anything.

I got on schedule at a small club to get into it, I danced to Marcy's Playground "Sex & Candy" and Bell Biv Devoe "Do Me" (it was tongue-in-cheek, okay?) made $80 in about 6 minutes, I did the math the next day on what I could make, I'd been making $13 an hour in retail. That's it. Obviously the idea had been appealing to me for a while, but it was sort of fortunate to have an excuse to do it and my awesome boyfriend was nonplussed.

Vivacious
01-13-2008, 08:01 PM
i was still a virgin and i tried at seventeen but they wouldn't let me, so i had to wait til eighteen. i wasn't poor or anything, i was student and wanted more money for less hours work. i wonder if anybody else was a virgin when they started?

I was..haha...so I had lots of sexual energy to spare when starting. The clincher for me was that I had just busted the side of my car again. For some reason that was very traumatic for me, and I decided I was going to dance and get it fixed. I danced for a very short time, stopped for almost two years, and then went dancing overseas. That's when I threw myself in with the sharks (unknowingly) and consequently learned how to sell and hustle. It wasn't hard to work anywhere after that.

maryjade
01-16-2008, 03:32 PM
I needed a job and a friend got me on as a waitress at a strip club. The money was pretty good but nothing like what the dancers made. We had to dress "sexy" and I got a lot of attention from the custies, who kept wanting me to get up and dance (seems like custies always want to see the waitress or bartender strip). Several of the dancers also told me that I should, that I was hot and could make good money.

So after six months or so I decided to try it - Sunday night so I wouldn't risk too much rejection. Don't remember the first song, but the DJ made a big announcement that "your favorite waitress is going to get naked on stage!". I was embarrassed, but the response was amazing and I made over $200 just from stage tips (I wasn't ready for private dances yet). That was it - I started regular shifts the next week.

Taylorlila
01-16-2008, 03:53 PM
I developed early and got hit on a lot and learned very early on that I was pretty and I could get things easily that way. I waitressed most of my teenage years. Jenna Jamesons book made me think about stripping. I had never ever really thought much about strippers up until readint that book. I ended up reading Bare and Strip City after that.

Stripping seemed like something I could do and enjoy. I also really wanted to get out of new england. My best friend and I talked about how we were going to buy a van and go cross country and I could strip along the way. Unfortunatly I wasn't old enough to. By the time I was he had joined the navy and I was with a guy who would never want me stripping.

I started to think about stripping again when we went to FL and went to some strip club. It was my 1st time in one and we had so much fun. I got dances, all the girls were really nice to me and said I should dance. I bought a pair of standard clear stripper shoes well I was down there, ya know, just for the hell of it ;). I was making horrible money at the time since I had quit my good waitressing job because it was so far away and seasonal. We had just gotten an apartment, and I owed about $500 on a laptop I had bought that I had lost track of paying for when my bf was in the hospital.

It made me think about more since I had always kind of wanted to and I knew I could make decent money. I found this site and honestly it gave me the last kick in the ass to finally do it. Last May I started off in a camera/peepshow at a porn store, where I paid off the laptop (and all in 1 day plus enough to buy some lunch!). I ended up leaving after about a month to go work in a strip club and here I am.

Honestly my 1st night wasn't that memorable. I just remember that I wore a beige bustier and some black booty shorts, then switched to my black and white pooka dotted two piece outfit, a little skirt and a little bra. I think my 1st day at the peepshow I wore a short cutoff denim skirt and a bikini top. Classy. I've since bought clothes.

My 1st lapdance I got with the help of a really sweet waitress. A girl in the dressing room had told me that its a big no no to talk to any guys at the stage at all (I since found out that at this club it wasn't frowned upon to sit a the stage with a guy or talk to them, and that this girl was notorious for snatching guys from stages). Of course a guy at the stage checks me out. Hard. But I'm not going to approach him. The waitress says "go over there! he was checking you out," I said I thought I wasn't supposed to and she said it was fine as long as he wasn't the only one at the stage which he wasn't. He bought 2 dances.
Thats the story. Nothing too crazy.

Amyisme
01-23-2008, 12:29 AM
I went to Vegas with my boy. We went to a club. I saw how much everyone was making and thought "I could do that." So, when I got home I went to a club and tried out. I quickly found out working in a club was a lot different than visiting one. lol

BalletBaby
01-23-2008, 01:06 AM
I was driving home from my friends one night and since there was a strip club on the way, I figured I'd stop in. The manager asked me some questions and told me to come back to tomorrow with a dress and heals. So I did. He introduced me to some girls in the dressing room and I got dressed. After hanging out in the dj booth for a little while, one of the girls got called to stage and decided to bring me up with her. I was terrified, but just watched her and copied her moves. Some guy gave me a benjamin, so I figured I might as well show my boobs. After the stage set I ran back to the dressing room because I told my sister I was spending the night at her place. And I had school the next day; I was still in high school. Dancing was mostly a curiousity thing for me.

I went back and got hired when I was 18. As long as I like it, I will keep on doing it.


i wonder if anybody else was a virgin when they started?

I was. 10 months I danced as a virgin.