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    Hi, I'm 20, overweight, so a butterbody., well I plan on being a stripper, and making it my profession for the next 20-35 yr, will retire when I have enough saved up and I look too "old", as in I look like I am past the average 45 yr old.... no offense to anyone who looks past that, I just don't want to ruin a good thing. So anti-aging is one of my priorities right now to make this "awesome" career last as long as I can...

    I gave college 1 yr of my time, and there were no careers I could really fall in love with except the adult entertainment field. I want to do porn, stripping, web-cam, and whatever my profession leads me to do.

    I plan on moving to Chicago (but if you know a better city, tell me!) in the start of May. I'm going to lose 20 lbs before that though, and get myself spray tanned.

    When my porn career ends, I am going to be a full-time stripper, since I don't want to be a 40 yr old porn star lol. But I can always lie my age as a stripper. Maybe I will open a strip club, after all said is done, and do that until I am 65. Then just retire quietly full of vibrancy and happiness with a full life.

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    Default Re: Planning to become a Stripper in May

    oh, sorry put this in the wrong area, should had put it in "coming out"

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    I can't decide if this is a troll or not. If it is a troll, it's not a very good one. If not...man, you're all over the place, and I love the assumption that despite the fact that you're a 20-year-old "butterbody," you're going to move to a new city in a month to begin your extremely successful career in pornography, and after you're too old for that you're going to transition into stripping and lie about your age to continue your career, and when you're too old for that you're going to open up a strip club.

    Maybe you should start by doing an amateur night. I know that you could immediately become a famous porn star in Chicago, especially since getting a spray tan will solve all your problems, but maybe you should still start with baby steps.

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    Default Re: Planning to become a Stripper in May

    All I can say is step up your game at the gym cause Chi town likes em skinny, almost as skinny as Colorado.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BringOnTheMen View Post
    I don't understand how you could fall in love with an industry with which you have no experience with. I highly doubt that you will be a stripper in 20 years, much less 35.

    I also don't know why you would move to Chicago to do porn...but then again I don't really know much about the porn industry.
    Well.. read the Jenna Jameson biography when I was 17 (or 16). It may had start before that with reading Memoir of a Geisha, at 14... that novel change my life, seducing men, giving dances as an art form, beauty, great novel. I join Second Life to become a geisha, and then I turn to stripping in Second Life. So in the virtual game I loved it... but it's not real, so that doesn't count at all.

    I wanted to be a stripper since I was 17, plan on doing it when I turn 18 (they told me I had to be 21 to join... so I stop), moved to a city far away from a strip club which was not worth my wild anymore to even try (and the closest one is lame), but this month I gave up trying to live my mother's dream; college. I gotta do my teenage dream, that's all I have to say. So I have to relocate where the industry is at.

    I plan on going to Chicago mainly for stripping purposes, and get my body in shape, there's a great gym down there. Then I plan on heading to LA in the late fall, after I am at peak physical position.

    I also watch tons of youtube-videos of Sasha Grey and Jenna Jameson, read books about seducing, know a ton about the industry. I just love it. I'm not drawn to it for the money, but for the industry and the daily life. Some can make it a brutal degrading life and mess with drugs, but if you know what you want then you will be a success at it.

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    Well, I guess those women didn't know what they were looking for? Money is nice, but it doesn't buy happiness. Well I want the money too, but it's not the main reason. It's just one of the reasons, I want to retire young.

    I want a well-known porn career, and a job I can love to go too. I plan to travel a lot, so I won't be at any one club more than 3-4 months. People like me exist, everyone hates their job "career" lol? I think it's self-empowering.

    Not trying to come across as a troll or anything, it's just what I believe of the industry can bring for ME. For others, it may be horrible and disgusting, but I don't care if men think of me as "easy". I don't care if my family finds out. I know what I am, and that's all that matters. If it makes me happy, then I am going to do what makes me happy. This is the happiest moment of my life, finally living for me, and heading to my dreams. It was two days ago I believe, that I finally decided, "yes...you are going to do this!" I haven't regret it yet. Hopefully, I won't.
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    You know, if you really want to enter the sex industry because you read Memoirs of a Geisha and it "changed your life," then I really think you should go for it. My personal moment of realization was the episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns is looking for love and accidentally goes into a strip club, and the strippers corner Mr. Smithers to dance for him and he starts screaming and trying to get away. I saw that and I thought, "That could be me."


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    Default Re: Planning to become a Stripper in May

    Quote Originally Posted by Demonia View Post
    Hi, I'm 20, overweight, so a butterbody., well I plan on being a stripper, and making it my profession for the next 20-35 yr, will retire when I have enough saved up and I look too "old", as in I look like I am past the average 45 yr old.... no offense to anyone who looks past that, I just don't want to ruin a good thing. So anti-aging is one of my priorities right now to make this "awesome" career last as long as I can...

    I gave college 1 yr of my time, and there were no careers I could really fall in love with except the adult entertainment field. I want to do porn, stripping, web-cam, and whatever my profession leads me to do.

    I plan on moving to Chicago (but if you know a better city, tell me!) in the start of May. I'm going to lose 20 lbs before that though, and get myself spray tanned.

    When my porn career ends, I am going to be a full-time stripper, since I don't want to be a 40 yr old porn star lol. But I can always lie my age as a stripper. Maybe I will open a strip club, after all said is done, and do that until I am 65. Then just retire quietly full of vibrancy and happiness with a full life.
    I don't think you're that in-tune with the adult industry... Looking too "old" often can help you. The MILF look is in. Both porn and stripping. As long as you take care of yourself, its fine.

    Most porn stars make the bulk of their money from feature dancing (stripping) or cam work, or gigs they get from being a name brand (think Fleshlight, toy & product lines, etc).

    No (or very very very little) porn is shot in Chicago.

    You make more money stripping than you do as a porn star. (Asa Akira, a top porn star, even said so at the AVN's this year- I'll find the clip if you want it).

    Most girls get into porn, work a decent amount for 4 months, and then get absolutely no work after that. You will be paid much less than $1000 per whole day of shooting porn. Even less if you just do girl-girl. And even less than that if you just do solo.

    In order to make money in porn, you need an agent. Most will turn you away at the door if you're not 115lbs or less. The thinner, the better. Most girls are like 100 lbs. But their videos and print work make them look bigger.

    Stripping will burn you out. Cam work will burn you out and you won't make as much stripping. Porn work probably won't burn you out, but it become very very hard to get gigs after like 6 months into the industry so you probably won't make enough money to support yourself unless you fuck your way to the top (nasty, fat, gross men with even worse personalities who oversee magazines/production companies/agencies, etc) and get extremely lucky. Oversaturated with girls who want to do it, and not nearly enough work to go around. In addition, tube sites have killed the porn industry.

    So my advice:
    - Start out with dancing ASAP. Start at a dive until you lose weight and work your way up to an upscale club. Move where the money is, where your look sells. If you don't make good money (many girls don't even make $100/night), don't keep dancing
    - Do porn on the side if you want to, see if it goes anywhere. Just know it might not, and your work will forever be on the internet. You will not be able to work in education, most of healthcare, with children in any way, or in politics... and a bunch of other industries
    - Learn some trade on the side (NOT a degree if you don't need/want one) to fall back on

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    If you really have wanted to do this for years, and you have your heart set on it, then I say more power to you, and I do hope it makes you really happy. But I think you should do A LOT of research, both into stripping, the porn industry and workout programs. It's a lot to do it all at once, and I can't imagine just getting into stripping, while being exhausted from trying to work out all the time, while being in a new city, WHILE being away from my family and friends. The only way to find out if this is truly what you want to do is to do it, but there's no harm in taking smaller steps first before you make a huge leap, just in case in turns out to be not what you'd hoped. It's true that stripping can be glamorous, fun and make you lots of money... some nights. Other nights, there might be times you put up with guys talking shit to you, girls stealing your stuff from the dressing room, customers trying (maybe succeeding) to sexually assault you, your legs are killing you, and after all that you go home with $5 because it was a shitty night.

    And I hope you have a lot of money saved up, because moving to somewhere like Chicago, paying for fancy gym memberships, rent, stripping clothes and shoes is expensive, and you can't rely on paying for it through stripping until you've been there for a month or so, got settled at a club, and can see what your earnings average out to. Also, I'm guessing your mom won't be happy that you're leaving college to work in the sex industry. Without a co-signer, how do you plan to get an apartment in Chicago? Housing is really expensive there, and landlords are VERY hesitant about leasing to even strippers that are established, because of no set income. Being brand new to the industry, you don't have the required previous years' tax forms, or months of bank statements showing dancing income. It's not like a regular job where you just take a pay slip to your employer, and using "I just started dancing" will not fly with 99.9% of landlords.

    I don't want to bring you down, I just think you have a better chance of succeeding if you get into the industry properly rather than just leaping into it and leaving everything behind. If I were you, I'd use April to start working out hardcore, and see if you really will stick to it. You'll have to lose a lot of weight between now and May if you want to be hired in Chicago anyway. And go to a few amateur nights at a strip club and see what you think, maybe even get hired somewhere and work a few shifts. If you don't want to do it locally, I think it would definitely be worth taking a weekend trip out of town to dance somewhere for a few days. It might seem like a waste of money, but it's WAY better than the money you'd waste if you went to Chicago and then changed your mind.


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    Not to play the troll's advocate but when I was a kid I saw Motley Crue's GGG vid and I decided that I liked being naked and dancing for hot men. Of course I didn't delude myself that the $$$ was nice as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    In addition, tube sites have killed the porn industry.
    ^This. If you watch anything about the porn industry it's basically a sob story about how incredibly expensive and time consuming productions aren't making any money because people would rather watch amateur stuff for free on the Internet. It's a scramble to make as much money as possible before someone steals it. Most girls spend an incredibly long time trying to make it into a movie and make a name for themselves just to be undercut by someone else. I'd suggest you watch the MTV True Life episode "I'm in Porn" (or something like that) to see how it will affect your life.

    I lucked out to have super amazing friends who are completely supportive of my decision to start stripping but not everyone is going to be like that. If you don't know anyone in Chicago you have to accept that you're going to have people not wanting to be around you because of the stigma that is associated with the adult industry.

    You're only 17 so I'm imagining you've never even been in a strip club, which worries me considering you're so dead set on abandoning college and you're family on a childhood fantasy. This is a business, just like any other business. People working in a grocery store or a movie theater don't say they're in it for "the lifestyle". They work there to get paid. Go to a few strip clubs in your area and see if that's the kind of atmosphere you want to be in before making such a drastic life decision.

    Also, just on the way you described yourself (I don't know how much you weigh or how fit you are) it might not be possible to lose enough weight in a month. You're going to look at losing about 1-5lbs on average a week. If you're unhealthy about it you can expect at most 30lbs in the month but if you go that route I guarantee that you're going to burn out.

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    What's that? I couldn't read since I was busy counting all of my chickens before they hatched..... at which time I was preoccupied by putting my cart before my horse.

    Just kidding.

    Honestly though, Demonia, I feel you... I wanted to be a stripper since I was 15 or 16. I read books, articles, interviews, and of course StripperWeb.... but that doesn't really prepare you for the actual day-in-day-out experience of working as a stripper.

    The fact that you PLAN on losing weight, PLAN on moving (to a place that you don't even know is GOOD for stripping/porn/whatever), PLAN on working for 20+ years isn't exactly sensible.

    Research everything you can. Get to know the good sides and the bad. Understand that you may want to rebuke stripping forever after your first night... I've seen it happen!... and then if you're still cool with the job, take it one day at a time.

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    If nothing else, as many in this thread have said, do not COUNT on your own assumption that you will be able to do this for a long time. Very, very, very, very few women can be in this industry for a long time and remain happy / sane / well-adjusted.

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    So you at the ripe old age of 20, having given college a year of your time have decided that the sex industry is your ticket to happiness. That you'd do it regardless of and not for the money because you're just so in love there aren't any other options for you. You love this profession so much you're going to go into it knowing nothing about it specifically or about life generally and you think this is going to be your career for the next 20 or 30 years, because it isn't ok to be a porn star that long but it's ok to be a stripper... or did you want to retire young? Or buy a club when you're 65 (saying that now when you know nothing of clubs?)


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    Seriously? They told me I have to be 21 in Chicago? I guess that wipes all my plans for Chicago

    Can you work in New York at the age of 20????

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    Quote Originally Posted by Demonia View Post
    Seriously? They told me I have to be 21 in Chicago? I guess that wipes all my plans for Chicago

    Can you work in New York at the age of 20????
    There was a post about this pretty recently... the general consensus was no, you have to be 21 in NYC


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    Wow... Why dont you start dancing at a dive, see if you like it. Im sure after a year you'll get a burnt out, sure the first 6 months are great, but it hits you with reality. Plus strippers dont make what they used to 5 - 10 years ago. Porn has went down hill, its almost 400 -600 for a full shot male on female with everything included, so good luck.

    You shouldnt think so highly of this industry there are many pros, but there are also great cons with it. Stripping alone is one thing, men trying to shove their fingers in you for 20$ alone porn is totally disrespectful if you work with the wrong people and there will be many of them, then saying no to 1 dick will ruin your "career". Step in a stripclub first and then see whether you actually like it.

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    Look, this is a business first and foremost. It's not a topless slumber party. Are you prepared to invest the time and energy towards maintaining yourself? I have to do gym 5x a week, I do hair, nails, wigs the whole shebang. I invest mad amounts of $$$ in my appearance. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.You may not be a troll, just really naive.
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    Remember it is a job and you have to HUSTLE to make money. You also have to be able to deal with rejection and rude, sometimes pretty awful guys and gals.
    If you can accept all the hard facts about starting out stripping, then great! There will also be good and lucrative experiences if you work hard, keep a positive attitude at the worst times and be strong. Start getting in shape before you start. This will strengthen you mentally and physically. Like others said, go to a few strip clubs and see how things work. If you can, buy a few dances. And be careful.

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    Also, just touching on the subject of weight: Before I became a stripper I THOUGHT I was thin enough (meaning I would be considered thin in the "real world") then when I actually started I realized how much more in shape everyone truly was. You might start dancing and realize how much more work you might need to do.

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    That reminds me...If you can, instead of joining a gym and exercising till you feel tired by your own standards....try and find a place in town that gives muay thai kickboxing and jiu jitsu training. It will make you loose weight, teach you to fight giving you more confidence and stamina, plus you will get crazy crazy abs. Also, you will meet some people in town besides just club people, to give you a hobby and variety outside work. Martial arts are a great way to balance yourself body and mind and help with physically and mentally taxing jobs like stripping.

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    I just wanted to add that you don't need to move to chicago to go to a good gym.

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