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    HERE IS ONE POST FROM THE THREAD ON THE OTHER BOARD WHICH I THINK SAYS IT ALL--
    There are two kinds of strippers in this world.....

    - Those that are into the whole lifestyle, the game..... the show, drugs, fucking on the side for money, etc etc. (the majority)

    - Those that are running it as a business..... they arrive at a bar, they do their shit, and they get out, climb into their $40,000 SUV and drive to their next gig. (the minority)
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    sorry anabolic i disagree. i have been and am a dancer for many years and the majority arent drug addicted emoitinal cripples. you are just feeding the stereotype. there are quite a few out there but not the majority at all. maybe where you are from but not my experience in MANY states. lets not talk about drug use from someone who's handle is a steriod!!!
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    [quote]sorry anabolic i disagree. i have been and am a dancer for many years and the majority arent drug addicted emoitinal cripples. you are just feeding the stereotype. there are quite a few out there but not the majority at all. maybe where you are from but not my experience in MANY states. lets not talk about drug use from someone who's handle is a steriod!!![/quote
    don't forget-that post was not mine-it was a webmaster who knows many dancers
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    I have to say that a lot of the strippers I have spent a lot of time with often do drugs or have tried the gamut of them.

    As far as sex for money, it seems less so. You do hear about incidents in the club and some out of the club, but not as many as that high percentage would lead one to believe.

    And of course my psychologist friend has given me the whole ya-da-ya-da on how they were probably abused as kids. And says some high percentage had a screwed up sexually-abused childhood. There was a thread here that dealt with Psyche...family...stripping that showed only a few were that way. And that's about the same as the number of strippers I've spent time with that said they had experienced that.

    About the only different point I wanted to make is, don't you have to take into account where the club is (inner city, rural) and what the culture of that area is, to say the strippers are any different than let's say ladies at a bar in the same area?

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    I know a lot of people who think strippers are snobs. It has to do with the fact that we don't "work" for money, by their standards. And that we get more of it.

    We are viewed sometimes as people who can't get a job anywhere else. Underquailfied and uneducated. Strung out on drugs......
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    There's a book called Deviant Work, or something like that, that I read last semester for my Soc class that explained it nicely. Basically we are doing things that the general public feels that a "normal" girl couldn't or wouldn't do. We are different. People have always feared and preyed upon that which was different.

    About the 90% statistic. Well, they say that 66% of all women have been molested before the age of 18. I wouldn't have a hard time beleiving that by the time a woman is 25 that percentage has increased to, say 75 or 80 percent.

    So, they are saying that we have fifteen or twenty percent more individuals who have experienced rape or molestation than the general population does. I don't have a hard time beleiving that because:

    1. In this sample we are lumped with prostitutes. Typically, pros that are included in surveys are street hookers. Street hookers definitely are a target for more sexual violence than the average women.

    2. Stripping and prostitution do attract some survivors who feel a need to re-enact early trauma. So do plenty of other professions.

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