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    Default Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Do you think so?

    I just found this article.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/job-...ley+Insider%29

    In it a former stripper has this to say about stripping.

    "In 2005, I started working as a dancer at a strip club and did some on stage domination since we'd get fetishists and submissives in there all the time. Overall, though, I found stripping to be emotionally draining, so I gave it up."

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Any job can be emotionally & physically draining, how well you are compensated & such determines if each individual determines whether or not it is worth it.
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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Yes and no. I danced for 15 years. I loved it when the money was good and the girls were too busy to engage in drama. When the club went downhill and customers were few and the girls became more backstabbing and bitchy, yeah, it sucked. I had to get super baked before work just to deal, and that was not a good sign.

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    I think it depends.

    Yes. It can be if you’re not making enough money, you have to live a double life, if you’re not prepared to handle the fast paced nature of the adult environment

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    No job should be emotionally draining. Get out, if that's the case. Stripping is not for everyone. You have to have a certain mindset.

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Every job is emotionally draining.

    It isn’t a day at the spa haha.

    At least stripping pays well.

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Stressful times is one thing, but emotional drainage to point where you're crying at the end of your shifts or scared to go in is one thing.

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    ^ That’s true ! If it’s causing real pain and trauma get out !

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Any job can be emotionally draining. It really comes down to the person, the specific environment, and what they can handle for themselves. For instance, I would go back to a strip club any day of the week before I ever worked in food service again. Having to work food, or retail, would be my worst case scenario, job-wise. I get anxious just picturing it as a hypothetical. But... plenty of people would go through that bullshit than ever get on a pole or go escort, cam, etc. So... to each their own.

    Anything in the adult industry probably has a higher chance of being emotionally draining, because the environments have a higher chance of nurturing shitty misogynistic managers and customers, due to our crappy culture surrounding sex and women. It's fine for someone to say they can't take it and get out. It wasn't for them. And these are real problems in the industry. But some people can cope and last a long time.
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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Anything in the adult industry probably has a higher chance of being emotionally draining, because the environments have a higher chance of nurturing shitty misogynistic managers and customers, due to our crappy culture surrounding sex and women. It's fine for someone to say they can't take it and get out. It wasn't for them. And these are real problems in the industry. But some people can cope and last a long time.
    But customer entitlement is still relatively new, back in the golden days when customer interaction was at a minimum was it still draining?

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    It's funny how the job quickly becomes easier and very fun when men are actually spending while making your life easier instead of being stingy and wasting your time LOL. I kept getting grabbed for topless vip's in Vegas on a weekend night and had the time of my life not having to even bother to "sell" the dances one holiday weekend in the past.

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    It's definitely physically draining. Being retired is nice. I'm not in pain anymore!

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    I danced up until the 2008 recession and i never found it draining since then ive webcammed which i find really draining and can only manage a few hours a day.

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sam38g View Post
    Any job can be emotionally & physically draining, how well you are compensated & such determines if each individual determines whether or not it is worth it.
    Very well explained.

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Quote Originally Posted by indiegirl View Post
    It's funny how the job quickly becomes easier and very fun when men are actually spending while making your life easier instead of being stingy and wasting your time LOL. I kept getting grabbed for topless vip's in Vegas on a weekend night and had the time of my life not having to even bother to "sell" the dances one holiday weekend in the past.
    I mean I always respected that it is hard work, cold approaching with a low percentage of success might as well be the most emotionally draining job I can think of (and why in the vanilla world is not something women do, always relying on friends to be intermediaries to get the message across).

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vyanka View Post
    ...You have to have a certain mindset.
    YES. You have to be a vampire type. This applies to DJs as well.

    Whenever a dancer is having a hard time hustling, I tell her to watch a vampire movie where the female vampires are kicking ass.

    It's without question like no other business I've seen.
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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    If stripping feels like an emotional and physical workout to you, I'd say that's healthy. It's normal to feel exhausted after a shift. But if you're feeling burned out, that's a totally different level of emotional exhaustion (i.e. feeling hatred towards the club and the customers, fantasizing about burning the club down, dreading work for a week before your shift, feeling like you have no choice but to work, self-sabotaging to avoid working...).

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    Default Re: Is stripping emotionally draining?

    Club customers can be very annoying and draining. That's for sure. Especially when they get all loony and stop respecting boundaries.

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