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    Default Re: Did seeing strippers on t.v. and in movies make you want to strip as a teenage gi

    No, what made me want to do it as a teenager were two things:

    1. Chicks used to come on talk shows, the "look at me now" talk shows and say things like, " I make 300 dollars a day and thats a slow night"

    2. To get on the nerves of boyfriend at the time

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    For the most part, as a teenager, I never thought of stripping as particularly glamorous or appealing simply because it never crossed my mind. This, despite the countless amount of movies I'd seen featuring bachelor party scenes and watching the random stripper interview on Howard Stern. It wasn't until I watched, of all movies, The Players Club, as I was nearing HS graduation that, as mediocre as it was as a film, it made me stop for a second and go, " Well, wow, she put up with quite a lot of b.s., but in the end, she made the money she earned work for HER, to be able to do what she really wanted to do (broadcast journalism). So I suppose that is when I began to consider dancing in a specific context.

    I did, however, always have a fascination with:
    playing dress up, getting made-up (for pageants/beauty contests/miss _enter city here__________ girl/beautillion attending, model/acting/dance class

    And I never tired of modeling all my clothes up and down the stairs in my house, watching myself in the mirrors which spanned every wall of the house, always trying to 'act' glamorous from the age of 6 or 7 years old onwards.

    One thing I remember which always makes me laugh is when I was very young and watching a movie with my parents one night:

    A fully glam woman was gliding seductively down some 'grand boulevard', probably somewhere in New York. She had a full-length, black mink coat, diamonds, rubies, long, flowing hair, and was absolutely beautiful to me. I looked at my parents and said, with all the naivete and earnest of youth, " I wanna look like HER when I grow up" and my mom looked at me and laughed. I looked back, confused, and my mom paused for a moment and then frowned, "She's a call girl." I furrowed my brow curiously and asked, "A secretary? What's wrong with that?" My parents roared with laughter and changed the subject. =)
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    ^^^^ Lol that is SUCH a cute story!
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    =) Thanks, Kylea! Oh, the ignorance/wisdom of youth! lol....
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    I never had an opinion about stripping when I was growing up that I remember. I went through a punk/rebellious stage most of my high school years until I moved out. It wasn't until then when I needed a job did I consider stripping (since a new club opened up and was trying to hire girls and well... money was money back then). I guess I've never had any moralistic views against the industry nor the sex industry in general so I treated stripping like an ordinary job. I still see it as an ordinary job and not some glamorous gig which may be while I'm pretty successful everywhere I dance.

    I think girls get into stripping for the wrong reasons generally do bad. I see a lot of new girls so thrilled to be strippers that they lose their sense of why they are there in the first place. If the money wasn't good then I'd do something else with my life but for now I see stripping as a career that I'll be doing for at least the next twenty years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kylea2 View Post
    The media didn't effect me... I honestly had no clue what strippers were really like until I actually went to audition. I thought they were all these super sultry women like Jessica Rabbit or something. Boy was I wrong!
    Yeah when I was young I thought they all looked very Jessica Rabbit Or audrey from little shop of horrors. thought she was the most glamorous women alive until I hit ten. xD

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    Its funny, I started dancing when I was 20, and at the time, while I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it or not, I did a lot of googling, and found that I'd already seen half the websites when I was younger. I'm pretty sure I must have had some curiosity about stripping at a much earlier age.

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    Wow I guess I'm in the minority. The media absolutely influenced me to become a stripper. In fact, the media has influenced me in every single part of my life. I am who I am because of tv and movies. Maybe I'm just very impressionable? Idk...but i thought that the media is a huge part of EVERYONES life..whether they realize it or not.

    Strippers on tv are portrayed as rich and glamorous, both things that i would love to be. I never saw films about strippers doing lap dances or dealing with creepy customers who demand extras, just girls getting tipped a ton of money to dance on stage. I didnt even know lap dances existed until i started looking up info on becoming a stripper.

    i have been obsessed with being beautiful and desirable for as long as i can remember. I have auditioned for playboy, maxim, spike tv, etc. I used to do swimsuit and lingerie model but have since grown out of it and am trying to better myself, but i still relapse sometimes and feel liek i need to be a playmate to be worth anything. quite frankly i feel that if i am not in a major mens magazine i am ugly. I know that is NOT true, but i am so screwed up from the oversexed messages in the media that i let it get the best of me. i seriously have to sit myself down and find examples of gorgeous girls who are not im playboy in order to convince myself that not being in playboy or maxim doesnt mean im ugly

    I have spent my entire adult life trying to make money SOLELY on my looks. Again, i am getting better, and growing up/out of it...but i still secretly wish people would just throw money on me because im beautiful. I guess its major insecurity issues. I have felt ugly since i was 4, and so if i get paid money because im beautiful, that would be the best validation. I have worked as a promo model, a go go dancer, hostess, topless poker dealer, i sold nude photos of myself to people on the internet, etc, etc. have tried to do car shows (to no avail though i gave up a while back when i realized how ghetto it is) and ring girl (also to no avail and i also gave up on this because i realize its low paying and ghetto). when i went off to college i was determined to strip, but got scared off when i walked into a strip club to apply for a job and it was also a sex toy store and the manager was a creep. I finally got up the courage to try again, several years later, after i made about 100 bucks at a gig where i was body painted and they had a pole and a few of us started dancing on it and people started throwing money at us. I thought "wow i am getting money for doing basically nothing, i HAVE to become a stripper." I found an upscale club bikini, got hired, and started working and eventually transitioned to topless and nude. i am so glad i found the bikini club first too because i think a nude club in LA would have scared me off.

    unfortunately real stripping isnt as glamorous or as lucrative as it is on tv. as of right now its simply a survival job...i hear good things about stripping in the 90s...thats when all the films i saw were set. damn it.

    "this is not for a paper, but what is it about us that makes us be able to get naked and grind cock for a living? me and a friend were talking about that at work the other day because we were talking about how we try get our broke friends to try it and, although they genuinely don't judge us for doing it, they're all like, "no way! i could never do that!!""
    the ironic thing is these same girls probably have had 50 one night stands. so really who are they to judge? and what about the girls who go to night clubs and basically dry hump strange men while they're dancing? at least we are smart enough to charge for this.

    In almost every other country they dont even have strip clubs, they have brothels. We are so lucky that we dont HAVE to do extras to make money. It feels as if for a lot of women, having sex with random men is like nothing. So i dont see why its so weird that we can "grind on a guys cock." If we lived in the Netherlands, South America, Thailand,etc , we would have to be sucking cock for the same money we get paid for a dance. This leads me to believe that we are all born with a "dont give a damn gene." I too was all "eww" when i discovered strippers had to give lap dances, but once you try it its not so bad. I am guessing its the same way in prostitution, though i have never tried that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ashley123 View Post

    this is not for a paper, but what is it about us that makes us be able to get naked and grind cock for a living? me and a friend were talking about that at work the other day because we were talking about how we try get our broke friends to try it and, although they genuinely don't judge us for doing it, they're all like, "no way! i could never do that!!"
    I wonder about that, too. I think some of us have an easier time separating a sexual act (grinding cock) from our sexual drive. There are a lot of different reasons for that.

    Also, my first stripping/sex work influences were Broadway musicals: Gypsy and Les Miserables. They made stripping look fun and prostitution look easy. And the great soundtracks didn't hurt.

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    That movie Showgirls with Elizabeth Berkeley is what came to mind after seeing this post. Its been a favorite movie for me and I always thought she was pretty and that we had similarities, tall bad ass chics with curly hair lol.

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    Hmmm I hoonestly don't know. When I was little we would always drive past the club in town, there was a big sign on it with a picture of the back of a lady as she stood there holding a pole. (In my 6 year old mind I gad no clue what she was holding), I just remember watching out for the sign every time we drove past. It was nothing special at ALL but I was obsessed with it and wanted to know what it was all about but I never asked. When I was little I always swung around poles in the playground because it was like gymnastics to me, and was overtly sensual by the time I was in the 4th grade. It's just part of my makeup. And I grew older I just automatically gravitated towards the adult industry but it was movies like Flashdance and Striptease that made me go YES, THAT is what I want to be doing. Pretty Woman? Bring it on! So I was always kind of drawn to it but the media kind of cemented it in my mind.

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    Well a little bit. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with being a hair metal guitar player, and all I thought was about shredding the guitar like those musicians, but I also became obsessed with the dancers in those videos, especially with those strippers in the Girls, Girls Girls video (motley crue). Plus, HBO used to show the movie "Striptease" a lot, and I became obsessed with that film.

    So yes, I can say that music and movies did influenced me.





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    Quote Originally Posted by ashley123 View Post
    I am thinking about writing a paper about the sexualization of teenage girls and the effects of the "pornification" of our culture and media on adolescent girls and wanted to get some feedback before I started a VERY long and research-heavy paper.
    I got into the sex industry a week after my 18th birthday and have been a stripper pretty much since then (I am now almost 27). Looking back, i remember being young and seeing strippers in music videos and in movies and thinking how cool and glamorous it looked and how I almost couldn't wait to try it. (It's sounds fucked up, i know, but it's really common.)

    Do any of you remember having those thoughts? I know most of us ultimately got into it for the money, but not every poor woman/college student/single mom does it. So why do we?
    I'm not trying to get into anything personal and I know a lot of us came from fucked up backgrounds. I want my focus to be how we viewed the sex industry (as we saw it in the media) as teenage girls and how that may have contributed to us actually becoming sex workers.
    ANY feedback would be great. Thanks, ladies!
    Fuckin' totally! Hell yes!

    I mean, at the tender age of 14, my best friend told me that I should be a stripper (at the time she had a lot of power over me- hindsight says it was kind of an abusive relationship), and told me about how her mom was and such, about the pay. I did "research" and in that research I found clips from movies like Closer, and the like. The media totally made it look really glamorous. And so, the next 4 years became solely dedicated to preparing myself for becoming a stripper- growing out my pixie cut, learning how to do splits, learning how to dance sexily, and even on my 18th birthday, getting my belly-button pierced.

    So yes. The media really was part of why I INITIALLY wanted to do it, as an adolescent.

    I remember when I first got on here and everyone said it wasn't glamorous, I was like "are they bullshittin' me?" It was a huge wake up call.

    But I think you're really onto something. I see teenage girls dressing sluttily and such- acting like women when they're not and it makes me cringe- partially because it reminds me so much of myself. I've spent far too many years trying to act/be older (in part, due to chasing a man 12 years my senior), and I know that it gets worse, and worse each year, each generation.

    Let me know how the paper turns out. I would LOVE to read it. I had considered doing something in this vein SEVERAL years down the road.
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