research study about Portland clubs - your help needed! [repost]
Dear Stripper Web community,
I am a graduate student at Portland State University who is conducting a research study about the relationships between strip clubs and neighborhoods. I am interviewing people who work in clubs and people who live near clubs in Portland, Oregon.
I am currently looking for women who have recently danced at strip clubs in the Foster-Powell, Cully, and Downtown neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon.
The interviews are informal private conversations about the experience of working in the neighborhood. The conversations are completely confidential and are scheduled at mutually convenient locations and times. People who are not currently in Portland can be interviewed over the phone.
Because this is a student project, no compensation is available for participants. Your willingness to share your time and your perspective would be greatly appreciated, however. I hope that the findings of the study may be used to improve the experience of both dancers and club neighbors.
I would welcome the opportunity to tell you more about the project and see if you might be willing to be interviewed or suggest other people I should talk to.
Please send me a private message and we can take it from there!
Sincerely,
Moriah
Re: research study about Portland clubs - your help needed! [repost]
Silly Moriah,
strippers don't do charity work...
Re: research study about Portland clubs - your help needed! [repost]
Yeah, We get these every few months. Someone looking to write a paper on stripping, someone wanting to study the psychology of stripping, someone looking to develop products to 'assist' strippers.
Re: research study about Portland clubs - your help needed! [repost]
Queen Jewel and 4everresolutions,
Thank you for your responses. You have posted what many may have thought after reading my message.
I am interviewing not just strippers, but also club owners, public officials, and neighborhood residents. I consider each person’s time valuable and am very grateful when they share it with me. I sincerely wish I could compensate them but this is an unfunded project.
My project is about the relationships between strip clubs and neighborhoods, not the psychological profile of dancers as individuals or a group (which certainly has been done, and has often been done poorly).
I’m interviewing dancers because they are experts about what goes on in clubs and neighborhoods. The conversation about these issues tends to be dominated by homeowners who are convinced that the presence of a strip club will corrupt their children and destroy their property values.
From my perspective, zoning codes and people’s attitudes about strip clubs may need to change. I have no interest in changing or “assisting” dancers, a group of people I admire as hardworking and entrepreneurial.
I do not want to distract from this forum’s purpose of providing a space for strippers to communicate with other strippers, but posted to reach dancers I might not otherwise meet. I would be glad to answer questions about my background or research goals via private message.
Respectfully,
Moriah