Edited to just make this post neutral. Hmmm.
Edited to just make this post neutral. Hmmm.
Ive overcome the travesty that is stripping. lemme go make a quick hundred....
I didn't have the opportunity to read it either, but I do want to say that I have a big problem with people saying that we have something to "get out" of. I love my job and will be "in" it for as long as I'm still making money.





Maybe they edited it -- it's reposted:
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/wrg/573379927.html
Ugh, I just read it.
She's looking for people who have "overcome" their career of stripping?? Like it's some kind of illness or addiction?




"Overcome a career as a stripper" Oh Jeez.
Anybody contacted this person? They are offering 100 bucks!![]()
Weee shall overcommmme... weee shall overcommmme...



^^have you been cured and "overcome" the addiction of stripping yet Yekhefah? Anyone?
I despise this attitude toward dancing, it only perpetuates the stereotype we're all only dancing until we can "get out"...![]()




Well, there are some people in the biz who do feel that way. I dont think its invalid.
Some women succumb to the negative pressures of the biz and have to "get out." Not everyone is happy in the adult industry, because for some they really cant do anything else.
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It is oddly phrased.."overcome a career in the adult industry"...hmm. I mean, I'm planning on getting out of stripping in the next few years (just too many other things I want to do) but I wouldn't say I'm overcoming anything. Stripping has been a great boost to the rest of my career. I wonder if the author is open to that point of view, or if she just wants to hear sob stories.



I think since it is, for most people, a job rather than a career, wanting to get out of it doesn't always mean "I've got to get out of this nightmare!" It could just mean, "I really want a job where I can work till 65 without having to manage a bar." But yeah, it sounds like "How I got out of that nightmare and recovered from my addiction to the sex industry" might be what she likes.
So just send her positive stories about moving on, I say, if you've moved on. If I had time I totally would.
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I'm going to forward her a link to my pro-stripping blog
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Jo Weldon, that is exactly what I was thinking. Yes, it is unfair that she implies that stripping is some horrible nightmare with nothing but bad in it. Now I do not shun stripping, but I can agree with the feeling of planning to "get out of stripping," in pursuit of a permanent career type job. After all, don't a good portion of strippers get started with stripping as a way to pay for college, build up retirement savings, or keep them afloat as they start from the bottom of a prospective career?
As far as positive stories go about "moving on," I think it would be cool to send stories about how dancing wasn't a dead end to escape from, but more of a "stepping stone" to get to a desired career path. For example, my situation...I had no way to get my degree until I had the money to pay my college, and dancing helped me to pay for tuition. Dancing also allowed me to pay for job "essentials" such as nice interviewing outfits, appearance/upkeep, and things that I otherwise wasn't able to afford. Not to mention the extra confidence boost and people skills that I obtained from dancing!Confidence is very important for acing the job interview.
I felt that way when I worked corporate...but nobody will describe that as "overcoming".
How about we do a paper on people who have overcome fast food careers....or boring retail jobs...
ANY job can be shitty. Its the stereotype that nobody does this voluntarily...we are all sucked into it and held captive til we"escape".


As an ex-stripper I really resent what this implies. I didn't "overcome"anything. I just decided to quit. Makes it sound like white slavey or something.
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Sexy Blonde at She Bar: We have so many other delicacies to offer.
Shane: Really. ... Like what?
Blonde (suggestive smile): Tongue ... pie ... muffins ... ladyfingers ... I could go on.
Shane: Well then, maybe you should think about giving out samples, so everyone gets a taste.
Blonde: Yeah.
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Its a double edged sword. I dancing for me has been good and bad. I was happy to get out but now I really miss it so it wasnt really bad to begin with. It was great to be able to dance a couple nights a week while I went to school full time. I used dancing to my advantage. BUT I know if I were to tell her my story it would be misconstrewed (sp?) into a story that I would not care to read.
Speaking of overcoming, we all should maybe stop being so prickly and get ours, outside of the club as well as in. I don't know if personally working in the media has given me a better impression of it than a lot of y'all have, but honestly, we have the good stories that everyone wants to hear. Not that a random craigslist ad is necessarily the best platform from which to express yourself... but don't knock it until you've put your shit out there. While understanding why so many strippers are reluctant to do so, I cannot help but wish more of you would.
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we should all make up fake overdramatic stories about how we overcame stripping and rob her of a few thousand dollars


That makes me want to write a Craig's List posting looking for all the dancers who have used dancing to propel them, or lift their confidence and sense of self. I think my book would be a lot more positive, since the people who tend to look down upon dancing, yet still dance, are generally not with the good sense (or gusto) to scale up to greatness once they are relieved of their "horrible" adult business experience. I mean, this lady who's trying to write the book is still trying to "milk" the business all while she's assumed to be rid of it, so she's got some issues. Not the definition of success to me.
I will just say. 99.999999999% of interviews of stripperrs..... no matter how great the story it will be turned around to something that puts dancing down no matter how great of a stepping stone it was. The only person I would trust in writing about dancing would be me of a few of the girls on SW that I feel I know and whom I do trust.
LOL okay! I'll gladly go first in writing it!After all, I worked for YEARS in the shit jobs mentioned above, and I felt that there was no end to it in sight -- despite having attended college, josearching for better things, etc.
Come to think of it, STRIPPING was the thing that allowed me to "get out" of the nightmare redundant cycle of one min wage retail job after another!





Oh, I sent an email message yesterday, haven't heard back.
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