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Books
Picked up two books today..wondering if anyone has read them...
1) Ive League Stripper (Heidi Mattson)
2) Sex Work, Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (2nd Edition)
I've also read these two books about dancers:
1) Bare, The naked truth About Stripping (Elisabeth Eaves)
this one was okay. She focused more on the peep show clubs in San Fran, back a few years. She also spent a lot of time talking about her fight for dancer's rights (making clubs actually abide by independent contractor laws/regulations).
2) Strip City, A Stripper's farewell Journey Across America (Lily Burana)
This was pretty good. She had retired from dancing, then decided to give it one last hoo-rah, and spent a year travelling the country. But she tended to get a wee bit philosophical about the effects stripping had on her own self-image of herself, and the effect it had on her relationships. Although interesting, I haven't found her experiences to be the norm.
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No. But having went to an Ivy, I'm kinda shocked about "Ivy League Stripper" since 99% of Ivy League or Seven Sisters women just flat out don't have the natural "talent"! Very true.
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Based on the author bio, she went to Brown University, B.A. in English and American Lit...and danced at The Foxy Lady. Don't know how long she danced, or if she danced after graduation..but I think it's cool she wrote of her experience..to try and dispel the sterotypes. There's a lot of us who dance who also have some kickin degrees under our belts (or G-strings, if you will! LOL)
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There were a few good looking ones at the Ivy's I knew (Harvard, Columbia), but not many. I think Univ of Texas - Austin has the best looking women on the planet....any number of them could have had world class dancer potential I think ;) and I'm sure you're right, many of them probably were.
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there was a book i wanted to read called "call girl" it was about a former escort. has any one read this? i'd be interested in knowing if it was good.
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I liked "strip city" a lot. The other one "bare" was very boring and I thought it would be more about clubs than peepshows. Ivy League seems interesting. I'd like to hear if you enjoyed it.
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the ivy league stripper sounds liek an interesting book.. i go to a very, very good school in the boston area, wont say which and also dance in the boston area. and i feel like when i tell customers that im a student there trying ot pay my way through school they never believe me, aka the "stripper myth" that chris rock made popular. i should pick this up and read it
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I read "Bare", it was very boring. Haven't tried the other ones, Bare was the only one at the library (and I'm too cheap these days to actually buy a book!).
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Ivy League Stripper was good. It had a lot to do about her life, her family, and her interaction with the school. It wasn't ALL about dancing. There was a section of her life where she was harmed by a broken tile in one of the dorm showers and then had to go through suing Brown; and then there was a part about her being sexually accosted (she fended him off) by an eighty something year old favored lecturer who wanted her as his assistant/call girl. She's funny, and it was interesting to look at east coast dancing in a small town (like Boxing Rings....kinda odd but cool).