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    Default Becoming a Stripper: What Motivates Women to Join the Industry

    The following is an excerpt from the new book Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers by Bernadette Barton (New York University Press, January 2017):

    I was scared. I was really nervous. I don’t think there’s really anything that can prepare you for that. It’s just one of those things where you just got to step in the water. You just got to do it. There’s no preparing. It was really nerve-racking the first time. I had no idea. I wasn’t very graceful. I didn’t really know how to move to the music the way the other girls who had been there a while had, and I felt out of place. I felt uncomfortable. I didn’t know how to really talk to the men the way that you learn to as time goes on in order to get the money that you need or want. It was really nerve-racking. My first night, I think I only made a few hundred dollars.

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