What did you think it'd be like?
Before you became a stripper, that is? I started dancing before there was stripperweb and books by strippers. I didn't go to clubs to get a feel, either. Just plunged straight into it, driven by economic necessity and disillusionment with the mainstream jobs. But before that I kept telling myself I'd rather die than get into the adult industry, lol, while at the same time in the back of my mind there was a vision of pure decadence, tantalizing seediness, freedom, and something hard to describe. I was walking by clubs, and the ones that were having a magnetic pull on me and teasing my imagination were not the big glitzy ones, but small, that looked "dirty", with girls, girls, girls signs... Sure I was thinking of heaps of easy (lol) money, but what totally seduced me in the end was that seedy environment. It just promised such darkness, danger, mystery... I wanted to soak it up, be a part of it. Not sure if it's making sense, lol.
Some years back there was a song about a stripper, bu Metallica I think, and I saw a clip, and in it this aging stripper with her kid was driving thru some small town, and first she is at this motel, waking up, having a smoke while sitting on a toilet, lol, and then goes to the laundrymat, while people look at her disapprovingly, and then she is at the club, all glammed up and dancing, and then alone at night in her motel room, while "sounds of the amplifiers echo in her head"... well, I even saw the beauty in that, not "oh, how sad and pathetic".
How 'bout you?
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I thought it would be difficult, but that'd I make good money & gain independence. I was right. I too started stripping before there were all these ebooks, SW, etc and the only thing I had to go on was "Striptease" w/Demi Moore and that dirty "Showgirls" movie... and that one wasn't even about dancing. Anyway, despite the b.s. stereotype portrayed in those movies, it all turned out the way I thought it would. Good/bad/etc, it helped me get what I wanted so I'm glad I did it.
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I don't know what I thought. I got into the biz S-L-O-W-L-Y, first as a lingerie model, then doing bachelor parties, amateru nights, and peep shows, then a lap-dance pub, then a real strip club. By the time I got into the real clubs, I had been reading SW for months, so nithing much sirprised me.
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I wanted to start when I was 18, but I thought I would be required to have sex with the club owners and give blowjobs and handjobs to the customers. I didn't want to do that, but I dreamed about being a dancer for years. I finally visited a couple of strip clubs and realized I didn't see any such sleaze, so I thought about it for another several months, and then I discovered StripperWeb, and started dancing a couple months later. I wish StripperWeb had been around when I was 18; I could've saved myself so much struggle.
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YEah I tottally agree with pisymissy, that's exactly how I felt --- the seedinness, mystery, danger all lured me in, I don't know why but I just thrive on that, it's like a rush, anything that is considered the underworld or just not the typical mundane type of thing, it wasn't even that I needed money that bad, I didn't I was doing ok, but I thought it was exciting and dark and a bit scary with shady characters in every corner, lol and I felt like there was a tinge of 'badnes' to it, which made me want to do it all the more,,, maybe I like movies too much and glamourized it, but yeah I know what you mean even about the Metallica video, I kinda feel the same way too about it.
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I just thought chics went up to guys and they just started giving out the money and doing dances. I had no idea it required work. Dont give me flac I was 3 months being 18yrs old. lol I thought strippers were all super skinny and all had the best bodies not an odd boob or huge ass or so I thought.
In reality strippers hide so much at work and some manage to still make cash in face of it all.
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Originally Posted by TigersMilk
I just thought chics went up to guys and they just started giving out the money and doing dances. I had no idea it required work. Dont give me flac I was 3 months being 18yrs old. lol I thought strippers were all super skinny and all had the best bodies not an odd boob or huge ass or so I thought.
In reality strippers hide so much at work and some manage to still make cash in face of it all.
This was exactly my thoughts. Luckily, SW existed when I turned 18 so I had many months of reading before I started. It definately wasn't as glamorous and as easy as I expected. And after a while, I wasn't as fond of the job as when I first started (I think once everyone found out). Now that I'm not doing it though, I do miss it.
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I wanted to try stripping since I was real young, evr since someone first told me there was such thing as stripping. Unfortunately, I didn't have the guts to try it until I was 21. I like the idea of getting attention and putting on a show before having to return to regular, ordinary life. I too though that I would have to give the manager a blowjob or something before he hired me. I didn't find this site until after so I didn't know what to expect at first. And yeah, I kind of like the clubs that dont have that fake upscale look, I mean its a strip club, not a country club.
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I went to the club to check out the girls when I turned 18, and the first person I saw hanging upside down from the pole was a friend of mine. After asking her a few questions, I decided that it was easy enough and came back about a week later. One thing I thought was that the dancers all had to exercise regularly--- none of them did.
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I had always wanted to try exotic dancing ever sinced I first noticed some guys would revert back to cave-man level intelligence when exposed to the womanly figure. I was on dance team in high school and while that's not exactly stripping, it still felt good knowing guys brains were frying watching me. After reading SW and turning 18, I decided to give it a go to help pay for college and I never regretted it.
Still, I never realized just how tough it is to work a pole, dance onstage, give lapdances, blah blah for hours on end. After a while it just gets tiring!!!
I never worried much about nudity, I've always liked to show off my body and after dancing for over a decade (clothes on) I know how to move. My biggest fear was that behind the scenes at a club it would be a bunch of girls bickering over tips and generally acting stupid. I also thought that the dancing would be easy, as the customers would all be drunk, nasty truckers who wouldn't care what you did. I was wrong on both counts, as many customers are the exact opposite (that's what u get for working in a nice club i guess), and I'm great friends with most of my co-workers.
Even though just about everything I originally thought about stripping was off the mark, I'm glad I do it. It's even more fun than I thought it would be.
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This is so funny :)
Before I moved to Florida from Indiana this past August, I went to a strip club for my first time around May-ish. Me & my friend went together because neither of us had ever been, & we were curious. I was honestly embarrassed, I went up to tip one of the dancers & she crawled up to me & pulled my legs toward her, & I seriously started giggling. I had no idea how to react & I just felt stupid. The manager approached us & asked if we'd ever considered dancing, & I said to my friend, "I could never do that".
Fast forward to September, after I had gotten a boob job, my acne cleared up, & my braces came off. I felt really pretty & I knew I had to do something about my money situation since I moved out on my own 1000 miles from home. I cried at the thought of dancing, but it is so much different then what I expected. I absolutely hate how narrow minded & judgmental people are about strippers.. but that's just how the world works I suppose. I like it so much more then I ever thought I would.
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I was lucky enough to lurk on Stripperweb before I started. I knew all of the negatives, but I expected it to be much worse than it is. I thought all of the girls would be gorgeous and major bitches. In reality, we all have our imperfections, and I've managed to avoid the psychos. I didn't realize how hard it would be to introduce myself to strangers, and had to idea what to say. I felt so dumb the first couple weeks!