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    Duh "I'm a Go-go Dancer NOT a Stripper"

    I'll never understand why some ladies adopt this "I'm better than ______" mentality.

    I stumbled upon this article by Cary Carr:

    I'M A PROFESSIONAL GO-GO DANCER NOT A STRIPPER AND YES THERE IS A DIFFERENCE

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I’m not trying to be condescending towards strippers. I’ve had friends who tested it out, experimenting with the idea of getting naked for money. But I also take pride in the fact that while strippers are ultimately hired to give guys boners, I was at least semi-hired for my talent. "

    http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-a-go...s-a-difference
    Meh....
    Some dancers think that if they dance go-go, they are superior to strippers.
    Some strippers at topless clubs think that they are superior to nude strippers.
    Some big-name club dancers seem to think they are superior to dancers who work in small bars.
    Some gown club girls look down on more casual places.
    The list can go on.

    We are all in this genre of work together. Jeeze.
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    Talent?? Does a guy ever look at a semi-clad woman - beach, swimming pool and go-go dancing included - without it all coming back to his boner?!!! That's why the club hired you, duh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ellieanna View Post
    Talent?? Does a guy ever look at a semi-clad woman - beach, swimming pool and go-go dancing included - without it all coming back to his boner?!!! That's why the club hired you, duh!
    Either profession requires talent. Boners like talent.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay12 View Post
    ^What Sophia said.
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    It's rediculous.

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    From what I understand, this girl wasn't even professionally trained and I bet she couldn't do a single pole trick in the world. What a little cunt. LOL at "I make enough to not need your crumpled dollar bills". At most in NYC, go-go dancers make $200/night at most !! LOL, most strippers shit $200.

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    Default Re: "I'm a Go-go Dancer NOT a Stripper"

    ^ i made 200 last night and cried all the way home!! lol. people like feeling superior, seems like human nature.they want somebody to look down on to make themselves feel good. the girls i work with all look down their noses and girls who work in another club down the street, the girls who work there look down their noses at the girls who work a mile east, etc. its exactly like sophia said.
    and yeah a go-go dancer has soooo much more talent * eye roll* get over yourself, i hate this mentality!

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    Assuming she is an actual go go dancer (as in doesn't do private dances and dances in cages for customers)then it is a bit different. Not better, just different. However, if she is a bikini dancer then no not much difference. I have been a bikini dancer and a topless dancer and I don't think I am better than anyone else because I didn't dance nude in clubs (did at parties though). The main reason was because at that time there was more money in these clubs because bikini and topless sold liquor but the nude clubs didn't. I don't think personally I would have danced nude in clubs because I wasn't comfortable doing so, though I was offered a job at one now defunct.

    Anyway I was reading the article and honestly there isn't much difference. She wears a bikini dancing and was hired based on her looks. Many years ago many strip clubs did hire based on dancing ability too like she claims how she was hired.

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    Default Re: "I'm a Go-go Dancer NOT a Stripper"

    The bars here that I work at are all mostly referred to as go-go dancing bars..A go-go and bikini bar are essentially the same thing here. No lapdances...Lap dance style dancing is different than stage only in a bikini and sometimes full coverage booty shorts..There are differences...

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    At least she is totally getting schooled in the comments.

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    I read this just to see the comments at the bottom. What a foolish girl.. Isn't she concerned that in a few years potential employers can google all her go go dance pics?

    It is what it is, but the go go dancers in my area come off like the biggest attention seekers looking down their nose at everybody. Not at all about starting a party or revving up the crowd. The going rate is $100 a night for a popular club that is always advertising on craigslist. I would rather have a "wardrobe malfunction" and have infinitely more power and upper hand with how I do business, protection from creepy guys lingering on my stage or taking pics, and of course unlimited earning potential.

    I think she watches too many movies.. haha.

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    Lol. Fair point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by arielbriel View Post
    From what I understand, this girl wasn't even professionally trained and I bet she couldn't do a single pole trick in the world. What a little cunt. LOL at "I make enough to not need your crumpled dollar bills". At most in NYC, go-go dancers make $200/night at most !! LOL, most strippers shit $200.
    i got offered a gogo gig at "the best club in town" for $50/night. lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll l. nothing against gogo dancers, and i actually see her point. there is a big difference. but for me, the main difference is that for gogo girls its a hobby and strippers its a job.

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    Default Re: "I'm a Go-go Dancer NOT a Stripper"

    Its funny that she thinks she better dancing her ass off crazy all night for $200! max! .
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    Agreed ^ I got offered a warehouse rave position for $50/night and I believe pacha (top club in NYC) only pays the "best" girls $200 but $150 is more the norm. I worked with a girl who go-goed for them and I asked her why she did it for so little money. She said she enjoyed performing but it obviously didn't pay the bills. She also said the other go-go dancers didn't know she stripped or it would be a major problem cause all they do is talk crap about strippers. Rediculous.

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    In my state I think its complete confusion when it comes to go-go dancing/stripping... Its mixing a type of dancing with stage performance..I can see how its confusing for people who r used to lap dancing bars or nude bars..

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    Default Re: "I'm a Go-go Dancer NOT a Stripper"

    HA. Go-go dancers make probably around 200 a night and have to be dancing pretty much all night. I'll take my $500+ earnings over go-go dancing any night.

    I posted a response to that article:
    I am a stripper/exotic dancer and I probably make at least triple what you make. I work whenever I want, so it fluctuates. But if I work 4-5 nights a week I'm making six figures (yearly)...

    As far as you saying that strippers are there to give guys boners while you got hired for your talent, what the hell do you think gets a dancer hired? The same thing as you did when you auditioned: dancing.

    Go-go dancers have more experience than strippers at dancing? Perhaps you should have specified. My job entails me dancing on stage (doing rigorous pole tricks that you probably couldn't do if you tried) and giving lap dances. I fail to see how you have more dancing experience than me. We are both dancers. Are you on another planet?

    Not to mention the networking opportunities I get from my wealthy regular customers, as well as my agent's attorney, who has offered me an internship (to eventually be hired) at the law firm he owns. Since I am, after all, a pre-law student.

    You should check your facts because your post is riddled with fallacies. Someone seems a little bitter that they have to dance all night long for money that I make in an hour.
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    Well apparently that post of mine either keeps getting deleted or for some reason isn't showing up for me... I keep reposting it and then five minutes later it's gone. Wth?
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    Blah! So annoying. When I first signed up for Disqus my posts (on xojane) would vanish too. I dunno if there is some sort of probationary period for new posters or something but I would try again and again until I got through.

    You made some excellent points.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay12 View Post
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    I wish there was an "auto-like" setting that I could just have applied to all of your posts Sophia....

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    The attitude is one of pre-trained cattiness towards other women, which is sadly a common thing now days, instead of teaming together...but then again, don't strippers, cam girls, go-go dancers *occasionally* have that attitude towards call girls and prostitutes or porn actresses? (And even call girls towards porn actresses and vice versa )

    I wish these women who behave this way, including the one who wrote the article, would realize that sex work and this industry does take talent, and no two girls handle things the same...and that we are all treated as 'lepers of society' and less than women who don't do sex work no matter what name we call ourselves and it only serves to encourage crappy treatment when we don't stand up for each other and support each other.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tantragoddess View Post
    The attitude is one of pre-trained cattiness towards other women, which is sadly a common thing now days, instead of teaming together...but then again, don't strippers, cam girls, go-go dancers *occasionally* have that attitude towards call girls and prostitutes or porn actresses? (And even call girls towards porn actresses and vice versa )
    Yeah, some strippers do have that attitude towards escorts and porn-folks.

    I think about it like this: I am unwilling to do those things. There is a demand for porn/prostitution. I'm glad that people who want to view porn or have sex with others for money can do so, with willing participants, rather than bother me about it.

    I only get mad if prostitution happens in a club where it's not permitted. Extras girls fuck up everyones money and set a standard that is very uncomfortable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sophia_Starina View Post
    Yeah, some strippers do have that attitude towards escorts and porn-folks.

    I think about it like this: I am unwilling to do those things. There is a demand for porn/prostitution. I'm glad that people who want to view porn or have sex with others for money can do so, with willing participants, rather than bother me about it.

    I only get mad if prostitution happens in a club where it's not permitted. Extras girls fuck up everyones money and set a standard that is very uncomfortable.
    This. I have never had an issue with escorts at all, just when prostitution went on in clubs and pimps in general (I think pimps are lowest of the low). I've known quite a few escorts and while I can't understand doing that personally I don't judge them for it. Many of them were strippers and realized they like escorting better.

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    How can she talk about the difference if the BITCH in her own word has never even been in a stripclub. I've worked both and guess what alot of gogo dancer have stripped and vice versa. Lots of strippers can dance and have the talent of rhythm/moving to the beat. Lots of gogo dancers also get hired based on boner appeal and looks. She might turn down that crumbled dollar or two they tip her, but strippers make more so maybe she should be collecting every dollar that comes her way.

    i'll tell you what she clearly didn't get hired for ...her brain & unlike most strippers who have to be skilled in customer conversation no1 wants to hear what she has to say.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sophia_Starina View Post
    Blah! So annoying. When I first signed up for Disqus my posts (on xojane) would vanish too. I dunno if there is some sort of probationary period for new posters or something but I would try again and again until I got through.

    You made some excellent points.
    Thanks lol I tried to repost it like five times so I don't know what's the current status of my attempt to add my two cents. Haha.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sophia_Starina View Post
    Yeah, some strippers do have that attitude towards escorts and porn-folks.

    I think about it like this: I am unwilling to do those things. There is a demand for porn/prostitution. I'm glad that people who want to view porn or have sex with others for money can do so, with willing participants, rather than bother me about it.

    I only get mad if prostitution happens in a club where it's not permitted. Extras girls fuck up everyones money and set a standard that is very uncomfortable.
    (I bolded part of your post for emphasis)
    This is exactly how I feel about it; it's not my business what a woman (or man) does for a living, but when it interferes with others' finances/performance, that's when it becomes a problem. I have no problem with a girl who escorts or works at a brothel. But I CAN'T STAND the girls who do it at my club. It makes it so much harder, logically and emotionally, for the clean dancers to make money. It's very frustrating.
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    My issues with the article:

    "Before I could correct her, she was on to reminding me to “never go in the back with the guys” and to “try to stay away from all the drugs.”
    Um - even if she was a dancer, why the hell would her hairdresser think she has the right to give unsolicited advice? Never go in the back?! You mean the VIP room? That's horrible advice. VIP is where the money's at.

    I also take pride in the fact that while strippers are ultimately hired to give guys boners,
    I'm pretty sure you were hired to give boners to guys too.

    So while that weird balding guy who keeps snapping pictures of me with his iPhone might think he’s going to get a one-on-one session, he’s sadly mistaken.
    At least in a strip club taking pictures of dancers is a huge no-no; I don't think I could be okay with tons of strangers every night snapping pics of me, even if I do have my clothes on; there is no way I want pictures of me like that out there.

    Go-go dancers don’t work at strip clubs
    That's a fucking lie. I've known several dancers that not only strip but go-go dance too; they're cool enough not to bash either one. They like both.

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