When you get your period, do you still dance or wait till it's gone & then dance?

When you get your period, do you still dance or wait till it's gone & then dance?
Lots of people factor in considerations like...
1) How heavy is your period? Would you be comfortable dancing for a few hours without being able to check to see if you need to change? (in case you get caught up doing LD's)
2) Do you work at a nude or topless club? I work at a nude club, which makes me think twice before working on a heavy day.
3) Do you get cramps, headaches, etc.? Even if you look good...if you feel like shit, you won't make money anyway...so is it worth it to work?
The vast majority of dancers work while on their periods either because they need the money or because they're comfortable doing it. It all depends on what you're comfortable doing!
I work in full nude clubs and I always work on my period, just take some ibuprofin and cut the string on my tampon short and tuck the remainder in. you can also use a keeper, instead cups, or a lunacup, they are brands of menstrual cups which go up towards your cervix so even if you are the type of girl to spread you can't see them. I have found they leak sometimes so I'm not a fan of dancing in them but they work for some girls.
I did my first audition and danced my first three shifts ever on the rag, now that was an experience...I needed the money so bad I didnt care but I was definitely gratefull for the free drinks to deal with the cramps.
Now when I PMS I make less because I am a crappy hustler...I get so cranky I just sit at the bar and get annoyed by every guy who tries to talk to me haha![]()

I'm just trying to make myself feel not guilty for not going into the club yesterday because I got my period so I was hoping most girls would do the same haha! I am very heavy for the first 2 days


when i tried out and the 2 days after i was on my period. its not that bad, just tuck the string in or cut the string. the worst part was fishing it out for me. i never put my finger in my vagina so it was painful for me...but if your okay with that then just go for it.




Hey if you had a regular job they don't give you period days.![]()
Ha ha sorry I'm the bearer of bad news with a period from hell that is out of control. If I'm scheduled and its a heavy day no I don't go to the club. Otherwise I just deal with it especially if I really want to work and spend a little extra time tending to things.

so this is sort of a side- note issue. but i am the owner of a hellish period. im very on schedule which is nice , but the first 3 days it looks like im dying. sorry if its tmi, but seriously, like changing my super plus tampon every half hour kind of heavy. so how often do you change yours or how often should i rather. to avoid any leakage. in my head its just asking for a yeast infection changing my tampon every 15 mintues for 6 hours a day, plus on the lighter days, it kinda hurts for me to change tampons cause its all like half dry in there. sorry again for the tmi, i just dont want to bleed all over someone, or have to take a week off...
If its really heavy, bitchy or painful, I dont go. Otherwise I wear two pairs of black undies and maybe a skirt (think russian doll, lol). I figure Ill take so much time in taking a bunch of different clothes off by the time my set ends I havent got to the second pair of panties! I work in a nude club so Ill tip the DJ not to mention stuff like "naked round," "scream if you want her panties to come off" etc.
If it is too heavy I do not go in either.... but otherwise I try my best to make it in the first few because for me I tend to make good money. I think men in my club like the mean girls; and being on that time makes me mean and even more aggressive than usually.
It does cramp my style a bit though, because I tend to be very self conscious of myself when on that time of month. Also, I don't know about you ladies, but I like to be left ALONE when I am feeling like that instead of around men. So the only way that men redeem themselves to me at that time of month is to either give me money (and lots of it) or to leave me completely alone.
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I do dildo shows at work so even a tampon wouldn't be an option. I say wouldn't because I don't have periods. IUS
I don't know whether I could dance or not when on period. Sometimes I've had hard pains and they would be difficult to hide as lots of touching is accepted and expected (it's hard to act like you are turned on and enjoy the cuddling if you in reality feel as if an alien was trying to cut through your stomach).
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my home club is a bikini bar so i dont have to worry as much with the tampon issue...my cramps aren't usually bad...so i almost always go to work...even on the first day
even when i was at a nude club i worked throughout my period. i just tried to change my tapmon right before each set or once every hour...i was ubber paranoid.





I usually don't work the first day of my period, and the second day depends on how I feel. For me it's more about the pain. I have really bad cramps, the doctors have tried medication and they don't help. I'm not very regular with my schedule, so it's not like I can schedule my days off. I could probably go into work if I had to... but I wouldn't be moving around once I got there - so what's the point?
Don't you ever sleep?
Not at night...that's when the stars have rather better things to do. They're coming out, shining, that sort of thing.
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Take the string up the side and wrap it around the tampon. That way you can still get to it if you really need to.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of the Instead... but they don't work for everyone.
http://www.softcup.com/
There are other brands of soft cups as well as sea sponges:
http://sew-in-love.com/menstrual-sponges.html
I have friends that use sponges... I just can't bring myself to that since they are considered an animal... ewww!
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^^ I use a DivaCup when I'm NOT working. I find it's an awesome, eco-friendly alternative to using tampons and such. However, I don't trust it enough to use it during work. I hardly even trust tampons when I'm working!
I have always worked even while on my period. I found working helps my cramps not be so bad. The best tampons I have found are the OB cause the string stays attached to the tamppon itself, coiled up. I have worked in full nude and topless.
Just avoid alcohol in excess cause it can cause you to bleed heavier.





Oh my goodness... look at this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php...ng_id=11019353
Wow... just... wow. I guess it's not that far off from the whole sea sponge thing... so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
Basically, you just pull the string taunt, up the side, and around so that it spirals up the tampon and then insert it. It's a trick I learned from a gal who danced back in the 70's. She was a good friend of mine and the first one that I actually had the nerve to ask this stuff from. She said most dancers either cut it or spiral it up. I think most just cut it these days, but this is another option. Of course this means that you need to use one of the tampon styles like O.B. that doesn't require an applicator since the string needs to be wrapped around the tampon itself.
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I just shove the whole thing, string and all, up really far. I won't work at the beginning of my period though.
One day you're going to see a girl bent over in front of the mirror nude, spreading her labia lips apart desperately making sure her tampon isn't showing. When I was new I'd go home amazed at what's appropriate dressing room etiquette. Now I don't even notice that sort of thing.
I don't work the first night, too heavy.
Otherwise I do- and I work in a nude place.
I make more money when I'm on my period, too. Hormones![]()
I work. I use O.B. tampons, because the string comes coiled up, so I don't have to worry about cutting it. Baby wipes are a girls bestfriend. Oh and make sure you do a mirror check for lint, before you hit the floor.
just don't drink too much and forget you have one in and put in another LOL!
Smart people make stupid decisions....

I can deal with alot of pain when I am traveling to dance because i dont want to waste my days away from home by not working. If it is a club close to home I will skip work if Im not feeling good.
As someone else mentioned alot of girls say they make more money when on their period. I guess its all the pheromones driving the boys crazy.
^^ Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Pretty sure that's what all of the studies I've read were talking about. You're supposed to make more money during ovulation, not during your period.
anyone else here on Seasonale? You only get your rag 4 times a year. Its a godsend!
Seasonale didn't work for me. Boo. >:-(


My 2nd month on the pill. 2nd week of dancing. The pill is supposed to make it a lot lighter (why I'm on it) but at least it makes it more predictable. But last month, it was heavier than usual. Hoping that's a 1 time thing, and that this time won't be that bad.
Sucks. The same study showed that women on the pill made only slightly more, consistently, than other women on the period (low point). I may have to switch to the estrogen free pill.
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
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