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    Quote Originally Posted by Everyman View Post
    From a psychological standpoint, this is completely impossible. Unless she's Sybil. And probably not even then, multiple personality disorder being cast into serious doubt lately among many psychologists.
    It is not. She played a role at work, she played, or plays a character. I say played b/c I don't talk to her anymore. I hate to say she played the stereo- typical blonde, but in a sense she did. She pretended to be the perky, or bubbly, always happy, slightly naive and/or air-headed, yet somewhat sexually aggressive party girl blonde. I don't know if I described her very well b/c I haven't seen her work personality at work in a very long time but the point is she was NOTHING like that at home. She was not bubbly, or perky in any way and she was nothing naive about her. She was cynical and jaded and tough (in some ways weak in others) but girl wasn't going to make a lot of money in lapdances. She pretended to be that way at work b/c she thought it turned guys on. For her work was sometimes very mentally draining b/c she didn't always feel like playing that role for 7-8 hours a day. If you think it's imppossible you have no clue what strippers are like OTC. It's one thing to leave your problems at the door but it's a completely diff thing to have to act like you don't even have any. Like everything's perfect with the world and you're always happy and having fun. At least that's how she and most of the girls I've been friends with were like. I'm not saying they've all had the same at work personality but except 2 or 3 they've all been completely diff at home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morgan_TX View Post
    Wow. Jumping in late here...

    We're talking about relationships here, and relationships ideally will take into consideration the needs and desires of both partners. When a dancer is dating someone who disapproves of her job, it's not about "right" and "wrong". It's simply that her job makes him uncomfortable. She can try to figure out why he's uncomfortable with it and educate him to alleviate his concerns. For instance, a lot of guys here have said that they would be fearful for her safety. Have him come into the club and meet the bouncers, and let the bouncers explain to him how they walk you out at the end of every night and take care of you if anything happens. Or perhaps he's nervous because he has this image in his mind of all strippers giving handjobs in the back room. Show him the kind of lapdance that you give.

    If he simply doesn't like it, then you have the same choice as EVERY OTHER PERSON whose partner dislikes their job: ditch the partner or quit the job. This isn't unique to stripping, though. Some people hate their spouse's job because their spouse has to travel all the time. Some people hate their spouse's job because of their spouse's co-workers. Some people don't like their spouse's hours.

    When I met my fiance, we met at a local coffeeshop. I tend to dress like a lot of strippers when I'm out and about, so I was all grunged up in my PJs and flip-flops with glasses and greasy hair when we met, but he knew through the grapevine that I was a stripper. He is NOT the type to go to stripclubs and had only been twice before he met me. When we started to get serious, I asked him if he had a problem with my job. He told me he didn't think so, because he understood that I treated it like a job. I invited him into the club a couple of times. Once was when I worked a very, very slow dayshift. I spent a few hours hanging out with him and having a few drinks because there was no other customer in the club, but it gave him a chance to see my stageshow, meet my co-workers, and familiarize himself with the layout and staff of the club. He was fine with that. Then I gave HIM a "standard" lapdance at home, and we talked about the fact that at work, I did that to other men. He was okay with that. Then I had him come in on a day when one of my best regulars was in. This regular had already met him (because I've done lunch with this guy a time or two) and was very laid-back. I gave the regular a lapdance while my FIANCE was watching, and then when I got home, we had a long talk about it. My fiance is now perfectly okay with my job. He's not the type to get jealous in any event, but now he KNOWS what happens at work, and he's fine with that.

    My future-mother-in-law asked him one time if he ever worried for my safety. He said, "Mom, I've been to her club and met her managers and bouncers. I know nobody's going to hurt her and they keep a close eye on her. I'm more worried that she's going to bust her head open from falling off the pole or the stage!" (I'm clumsy.)

    I know that I AM lucky. But if he had a problem with my dancing that couldn't be resolved by showing him the reality of the situation, then I'd have to choose between dancing and him. Part of being in a relationship is caring for the other person.
    Three thumbs up for the way you handled this....you and your BF both sound like very mature people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTempest View Post
    It's not entirely the thought that all customers are PLs. I like some of my customers very much! But they're customers. I don't go into a job interview, or to work at an office and see everyone as potential dating material. Those two worlds shouldn't be involved in my opinion and thinking that they could be is foolish. Much like a normal co-worker, customers are full human beings who I am not interested in.

    Is that set in stone? NO. But I'm a lot less willing to date someone I met at the strip club because there is a portrayal of sexuality that might be incorrectly viewed as my willingness to jump into the sack with them, or the ego boost a guy might get from dating a stripper.

    But you're talking about a PERSONAL relationship, not work. If you visit me at work after we're dating then there's still a personal relationship but work etiquette. Also, the way we've been talking about the situation it sounds like the hypothetical girl was dancing before she met you. It seems almost closed minded to miss out on a great girl because of her job. I would hate it if I worked at Wendy's and people said "I'd date you but you smell like french fries."

    Also... what does jaundice (a medical condition caused by liver problems and characterized by yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes without any visual impairment) have to do with this? I believe you meant that each side of the argument is looking through a black eye.



    Actually it's not. It's called acting. Actors don't have split personalities but they are expected to get on stage and BE a different person. It just so happens that most of us have similar roles in this production. An actor on stage is not the same person as one off stage. It's a metaphor, obviously, but you get the point.
    Re: acting, sure you can ACT different at work (you and actors and lots of others do), but that is just external window dressing. Internally you're still the same...and the work affects you...and you will bring it home....Exhibit A, boards like this where venting occurs. You're not a different person, no matter how much you may "act" it.

    Re: jaundiced eye:

    "It was once believed persons suffering from the medical condition jaundice saw everything as yellow. By extension, the jaundiced eye came to mean a prejudiced view, usually rather negative or critical. Alexander Pope, in 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711), wrote: "All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye." Similarly in the mid 19th century the English poet Lord Alfred Tennnyson wrote in the poem 'Locksley Hall': "So I triumphe'd ere my passion sweeping thro' me left me dry, left me with the palsied heart, and left me with a jaundiced eye."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice

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    Quote Originally Posted by Everyman View Post
    Re: acting, sure you can ACT different at work (you and actors and lots of others do), but that is just external window dressing. Internally you're still the same...and the work affects you...and you will bring it home....Exhibit A, boards like this where venting occurs. You're not a different person, no matter how much you may "act" it.

    Re: jaundiced eye:

    "It was once believed persons suffering from the medical condition jaundice saw everything as yellow. By extension, the jaundiced eye came to mean a prejudiced view, usually rather negative or critical. Alexander Pope, in 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711), wrote: "All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye." Similarly in the mid 19th century the English poet Lord Alfred Tennnyson wrote in the poem 'Locksley Hall': "So I triumphe'd ere my passion sweeping thro' me left me dry, left me with the palsied heart, and left me with a jaundiced eye."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice
    So an actor playing a murderer, say... depicting his horrific acts... is he changed by his job? Why is it different for me? What is this affect that is potentially hazardous to my relationship?

    Jaundice: I stand corrected. I was unaware of that reference, considering it's an extremely old literary term. If I was still in my British Lit class I'd take points off for failure to cite obscure or uncommon literary terminology. But we're not, so I tip my hat to you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
    I'm actually not following you at all. The issue is not between customers/strippers and strippers/customers. The issue was set up between some guy and a stripper and you are comparing it to the stripper/customer relationship. That is not an apt comparison. One has nothing to do with the other. Like some guy that I meet at my roommate's work Christmas party decides that I can be a madonna or a whore has nothing to do with why I choose not to date customers. Personal relationship -> business relationship. I think you might be confused about the question.
    I'll try one more time, as simply as I can. You and I NEVER seem to see eye-to-eye, Jenny, so no big loss if that's the case again in this thread.

    It is no better to (1) as a general starting point, reject Caste A of people (stripper customers) as potential dates, than it is to (2) as a general starting point, reject Caste B of people (strippers) as potential mates.

    Therefore, to complain about (2), while completely defending (1) as a "business situation", to me is hypocritical.

    I think one thing we can safely agree on, Jenny, is that based on our interaction on this board, neither one of us would find the other acceptable as a date or a mate......ha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Everyman View Post
    I'll try one more time, as simply as I can. You and I NEVER seem to see eye-to-eye, Jenny, so no big loss if that's the case again in this thread.

    It is no better to (1) as a general starting point, reject Caste A of people (stripper customers) as potential dates, than it is to (2) as a general starting point, reject Caste B of people (strippers) as potential mates.

    Therefore, to complain about (2), while completely defending (1) as a "business situation", to me is hypocritical.

    I think one thing we can safely agree on, Jenny, is that based on our interaction on this board, neither one of us would find the other acceptable as a date or a mate......ha.
    If you meet a stripper outside of work, to me, it's completely different. You're not seeing her without her clothes off before you get her name. There is no business involved in the initial point of contact.

    If you're referring to meeting a stripper in the club, I might be able to see your point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTempest View Post
    So an actor playing a murderer, say... depicting his horrific acts... is he changed by his job? Why is it different for me? What is this affect that is potentially hazardous to my relationship?

    Jaundice: I stand corrected. I was unaware of that reference, considering it's an extremely old literary term. If I was still in my British Lit class I'd take points off for failure to cite obscure or uncommon literary terminology. But we're not, so I tip my hat to you.
    I didn't think "jaundiced eye" was an obscure phrase...the wiki explanation is kind of obscure, sure, but I thought the term itself was common. Sorry.

    As to actors, yeah I've seen and read lots of interviews over the years where actors talk about internalizing their parts, and how it affects their personalities, and their personal relationships. So yeah, I would say that happens a lot.

    Let me add an example. So I don't get a lot of knives thrown at me, let me state (1) I know this is an EXTREME example, and (2) the girl and I were just sitting around talking, ok? But it does illustrate "taking your work home with you", which happens to all of us on one level or another.

    I was talking to an "extras girl", who related to me that her BF complained that she never wanted to do BJ's on him at home. She said after working all day, she just didn't want any more penis in that way at home, she just wanted to fuck. Now, she may have "acted" as though she were interested in her customers' penises, when she really wasn't, but she still brought it home with her, didn't she?

    True story.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTempest View Post
    So an actor playing a murderer, say... depicting his horrific acts... is he changed by his job?
    Okay some actors are effected by the roles they play, especially if it was based on a true story. I'm not saying it happnens with all dancers b/c I know it doesn't but I've known some girls who are definitely effected by the job and not in a postive way. It depends on the girl. I've known girls who start having a very hard time seperating guys ITC from guys OTC. I've known girls, not many, but some who started to lump all guys together. I REALLY hate to keep bringing her up but she did it. She started to hate guys and would take it out on me! As if I was the guy at work grabbing and gropping her, or I was the guy at work whipping it trying to get extras.
    I said in another thread coming here changed how I saw her. I haven't been to a SC in 3, nerarly 4 years now. I moved about a 1/2 hour away and didn't keep in touch with the dancers I was friends with so she was the only current example I had. Then when I started coming here I slowly started to remember not all dancers are like her, not all dancers are as jaded and cynical and one dementional. It had been so long since I was around any dancers I had forgotten that. Yeah I cared about her A LOT, but since she was the only dancer I was ever around anymore I just started to assume it went iwth the territory. And b/c I did care about her I tolerated it. Then I started to think about other dancers, now granted I was just friends with them, but they weren't all like her. The fact is the job did effect her and not in a good way.
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    I never tell people what I do. But I never ever tell men. When my bf and I went to his company xmas party a few years back, somehow it got out that I danced and all these guys (who's wives were burning a hole through my face) would not leave me alone. They wanted to dance with me, buy me drinks, standing and talking to me way too close for comfort. Finally, we had to leave before I got my ass kicked. Most men in my opinion will assume because you're a striper= easy lay. Even if they are with their wives!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaiarose View Post
    Most men in my opinion will assume because you're a striper= easy lay. Even if they are with their wives!
    Quote Originally Posted by TheTempest View Post
    I'm a lot less willing to date someone I met at the strip club because there is a portrayal of sexuality that might be incorrectly viewed as my willingness to jump into the sack with them, or the ego boost a guy might get from dating a stripper.
    Earlier I said I'd be cautious of any guy who really gets turned on by the job. That they'd want to date the stripper not the women who works as a stripper. And those are 2 very good examples of what I was talking about.
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    A quick story, that's slightly off topic, but I think is funny and maybe some of the girls will too. This was about 6 years ago. I was friends with a girl who worked as a bartender at a SC. I went in one day to talk and hang out with her for a little while. There was a new girl who just started that day. She was young, 18 or 21 whatever the min age to work there was. My friend said the new girl was nervous and asked if I hang out with her and talk to her for a while. So I did then these 2 guys came in. They were sitting rite next to us and after a little while one of the guys asked her for a dance. I don't usually do this but I ended up talking to the other guy while they were gone. He said his friend had just gotten out of jail and wanted to bring him to a SC for some fun. I don't remember how long they were gone but afterwards the girl came back to me nearly in tears and said he started jerking off while I was dancing for him. She finished her shift but quit that day. So her first day as a stripper was also her last day as a stripper.

    It was slightly off topic but it could fall under the heading of how stripping can change some girls.....keyword being some girls. If she kept dancing who knows how it would have effected her. She may have learned to seperate work from personal but it also may have started to effect her personal life and personal relationships.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AtomicPunk View Post
    It was slightly off topic but it could fall under the heading of how stripping can change some girls.....keyword being some girls. If she kept dancing who knows how it would have effected her. She may have learned to seperate work from personal but it also may have started to effect her personal life and personal relationships.
    I see the point you're trying to make and I feel for the girl. It sounds like she went into the business not knowing what to expect/watch out for. It's a classic case of naivety, really and that happens a lot. Before I started dancing, I didn't think a man would just start jerking off in public and it can be a make or break situation.

    But that is just learning the business. The client will try to get as much from you for as little as possible and you have to stand your ground, maintain customer relations but make sure you don't get screwed out of what your service/product is worth. But that applies to pretty much EVERY sales situation though. I would hope that this knowledge (that men may do some icky things) would be used on an individual basis and not applied to customers as a whole because that's good business. You know what to look out for, but you don't go assuming every person will do it.

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    I was once amazed at how easily or freely guys will start jerking off almost anywhere and in any situation. I went to the beach with this chick and she got drunk while we were there and I mean could barely stand drunk. I didn't live very far from the beach at the time so normally we'd walk to and fro instead of trying to fight parking. She was far to drunk to walk this time tho so we took the bus. She was wearing a bikini and while we were waiting some guy standing in the back who just kept looking at her. Now she happen to be a stripper but this cat didn't know that. He finally asked me if he could jerk off on her for $50......on her! I of course said no and tried covering her up a little but I was carrying everything. I had no clue we were going to end up taking the bus home. Plus you see girls in bikini's all the time around here who'd a thunk. Anyway I kept looking at him trying to make sure he stayed away from her. Then this one time I turned around and there he was in all his glory.....well almost. He had lifted up the one side of his shorts, was looking at her and jerking off rite out in public Talk about no shame.
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    This is all very interesting for me to read. Allow me to offer my perspective...

    My girlfriend is a dancer. She was a dancer when we started dating and, in fact, met ITC. She took a long time making the decision to see me outside of the club and went against her rather strict policy to do so (which was flattering). And I'm very glad she did... we've got a great thing going and are rather happy together.

    That said, the job (and it's only part time for her - two nights a week usually) has been more difficult for me personally as of late. I find that the closer we become and the stronger my feelings for her, the more of a struggle it is for me when she's at work. There's no judgment there - hell, that's how I met her. And it's not about her being naked in front of other men... she's gorgeous and I'm damn proud of that. It's a low-contact place, but not no-contact... and there's a bit more freedom in the vip rooms, as you know. Now the club has a zero-tolerance policy regarding extras, and she, personally, has even stricter policies - but it does still pain me to think of her in certain situations with strange men. I've been there, and we've talked... I'm aware. Now for some guys this is just not a big deal. I didn't think it would be for me either, but I'm finding it does sting a bit. But I'm trying... I'm working on it.

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    Actually it's not. It's called acting. Actors don't have split personalities but they are expected to get on stage and BE a different person. It just so happens that most of us have similar roles in this production. An actor on stage is not the same person as one off stage. It's a metaphor, obviously, but you get the point.
    This is another point we've discussed. I, myself, am an actor - so I totally understand this concept. And though a character is assumed, you are never completely divorced from the person you are. It's not possible. It is, after all, the same body - and your conscious, real-world mind is still actively engaged. So while I understand and have been there myself (sweetie, I have to kiss her - it's in the script!), and it does make a difference - it does not dissolve the issue completely.

    So - it's not the easiest thing in the world, but she's amazing and overwhelmingly worth it. I may never like what she's doing - I actually hope I don't. But my hope is that I can find a way to be okay with not being okay with it... or just to be able to laugh.

    I'm interested to hear responses.

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    Well the first thing I want to say is from a guy's perspective feel lucky it's a only part-time. As a guy who's been involved with a dancer who worked in a VERY high contact club. It never bothered me too much about her being groped and grabbed all day. Altho it could start to bother me a little bit if I thought too much about who was touching her, what types of guys were touching her. For exmaple I hate suits and I hated the thought of some Lawer type grabbing and groping her. Like I said before we didn't do this but I would have watched her fuck another guy as long as I had a say in who the guy was. At the end of the day I always tried to remember I got the real person and those guys were paying for her time. They were paying just to talk to her, let alone grab and grope. and stroke their ego and pretend she likes them and pretend she finds them interesting. Unfortunately the girl I was with turned out to be fucked in the head so I paid in a different way but you get the point. She was with me b/c she wanted to be not b/c I was paying her. I also think it would make it easier if you think how much money those guys are spending on her instead of thinking about what could be happening.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noggin77 View Post
    And I'm very glad she did... we've got a great thing going and are rather happy together.

    That said, the job (and it's only part time for her - two nights a week usually) has been more difficult for me personally as of late. I find that the closer we become and the stronger my feelings for her, the more of a struggle it is for me when she's at work.

    Now the club has a zero-tolerance policy regarding extras, and she, personally, has even stricter policies - but it does still pain me to think of her in certain situations with strange men.

    Now for some guys this is just not a big deal. I didn't think it would be for me either, but I'm finding it does sting a bit. But I'm trying... I'm working on it.

    So - it's not the easiest thing in the world, but she's amazing and overwhelmingly worth it. I may never like what she's doing - I actually hope I don't. But my hope is that I can find a way to be okay with not being okay with it... or just to be able to laugh.
    First, let me say bravo on a well thought out first post. Don't make me regret saying that now.

    Don't mind the chop job I did on your entry, I just wanted to focus on the points I'm responding to.

    A big part of this thread has become the decision to date a stripper or not, based pretty much solely on her job (or his, to be p.c.). You've already made that decision and you sound extremely happy. Other people consider the job a reason to chance missing out on a good thing.

    Let me ask, how long have you been together? I don't want to make an assumption but it sounds like it hasn't been a really long time. You say things are presently becoming more difficult as your feelings grow and you get closer.

    Also, I have to wonder what situations you're imagining her in with strange men when you also mention how strict her particular club is.

    If you'll grant me an opinion (which you're getting if you like it or not) I would have to say it sounds like you're in a new relationship with an amazing girl who you're a little worried could leave you at some point and hurt your feelings. It's rough when things are so new and you're feeling giddy and wonderful and don't want anything to change that, even when you're not dating a dancer.

    I could be wrong though. Let me know.

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    hmmm...I was with my bf for before I started dancing. He has supported me 100% from the start; there is a level of trust there. I go to work and i treat it for what it is--work. I have my standards and I stick to them. He knows that. Point blank "stripper" is (one of) my job description(s) not how I define myself.

    And about the ITC and OTC thing, it's called acting. You think the people in movies are who they portray on the big screen? Negitive. I'm a quite nerdy book worm but at the club I'm a bubbly ball of energy. "Amber" is just a character I created.

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    Is that set in stone? NO. But I'm a lot less willing to date someone I met at the strip club because there is a portrayal of sexuality that might be incorrectly viewed as my willingness to jump into the sack with them, or the ego boost a guy might get from dating a stripper.
    Quote heavily snipped.

    The "ego boost" sentiment, that a woman is a prize and a man is undeserving of her or feeling better about himself by dating her, is something I've seen a lot here and a lot on other forums and elsewhere in life, and I've really never understood it. Is there a concern that a guy might *only* date you because of the ego boost, as in "adding a notch to his belt?" That makes complete sense, but otherwise I don't understand the aversion towards the ego boost.

    I've been in the other kind of relationship (as I'm sure many have) where the person makes me feel worse about myself, and I'd much rather be in one where we make each other feel better about ourselves.
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    omg, why is it so huge?!! lol lol

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    the ego boost a guy might get from dating a stripper.
    Quote Originally Posted by lestat1 View Post
    I don't understand the aversion towards the ego boost.

    I've been in the other kind of relationship (as I'm sure many have) where the person makes me feel worse about myself, and I'd much rather be in one where we make each other feel better about ourselves.
    "Who your partner is and how you two relate" pumping your ego is not the same as "what your partner's job happens to be" pumping your ego.

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    Ahh, the superficial nature of it being the job and not the self. That makes sense.
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    omg, why is it so huge?!! lol lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by lestat1 View Post
    Quote heavily snipped.

    The "ego boost" sentiment, that a woman is a prize and a man is undeserving of her or feeling better about himself by dating her, is something I've seen a lot here and a lot on other forums and elsewhere in life, and I've really never understood it. Is there a concern that a guy might *only* date you because of the ego boost, as in "adding a notch to his belt?" That makes complete sense, but otherwise I don't understand the aversion towards the ego boost.

    I've been in the other kind of relationship (as I'm sure many have) where the person makes me feel worse about myself, and I'd much rather be in one where we make each other feel better about ourselves.
    There is nothing wrong with giving your partner an ego boost. But if that's the only reason a person is with their partner than they're not looking to have a real relationship. Some people date strippers/models/actresses/rich people/very attractive people for just those reasons, to make themselves look better. We're not talking about a relationship of equality or any real substance.

    Example: A customer comes in. I do my little naked dance and he immediately tells me how he wants to be my boyfriend, or that he loves me. This to me is an example of someone looking for a pure ego boost. He likes what I stand for/how I look/what I do for work and he doesn't know anything about me as a person. This also has happened outside the club. I never thought I would get tired of getting date offers. LOL

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    I got your point though Lestat. Yes ego boosting SO's are nice!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lestat1 View Post
    Ahh, the superficial nature of it being the job and not the self. That makes sense.

    Well when you say it like that... makes my explanation look stupid.

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    Well when you say it like that... makes my explanation look stupid.
    No just verbose...

    Besides, "I do my little naked dance" was priceless; tempted me to tweak the sig.

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    You got hot ass women on your siggie though. I vote keep it that way.

    Dude, I can't keep my mouth shut today (or in this case.. fingers from moving).

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