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    What the Bellydancer Does on Her Day Off

    At the Musee' De Mechanique in San Francisco there is a Stereoscope entitled "What the Bellydancer Does on Her Day Off". In the true spirit of burlesque and teasing it is a total let down. The photos are of artist's models pose in some stages of undress. It appears if you believe the photographer, that bellydancers must post as artists models on their day off. This I highly doubt.

    I used to joke that the answer to the question was "the laundry"

    So yes, bellydancing and stripping are different. But the question is still the same.

    What do you do on your day off?

    Thank you in advance.

    -mice

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    We smite people who do not post an introduction.

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    Laundry, Grocery Shopping, Cleaning.... OMYGOD I sound like a normal person and here I thought my life was so glamorous...

    ::I wonder what non strippers do on their day off::
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    Posted my introduction as I am not wishing to be smitten (not in the good way).

    Non-strippers, if they are me, sit around wondering what other more exotic people are doing. imagining it is new and different, then I write about it.

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    Default Re: What the Bellydancer Does on Her Day Off

    LOL, welcome to the board.

    Practice Tai Chi and pray (to God)
    Watch Faux News and get a good chuckle over the early morning spin-fest
    Get online for real news
    Chat on messageboards
    Go to class
    Grocery shop
    Do laundry, clean house
    Study/Finish assignments
    Go see parents, sis, and niece (weekdays)
    Spend QT with the BF (some weekdays and weekends)
    Catch a movie
    Play Sims2 (yes, I'm a dork)
    Hang around on message boards, shop online, etc...
    Catch up on weekly shows via On Demand service
    Take a hot bath and read a book
    Go to bed

    It's official - I'm a boring stripper.


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    I sleep and do homework on my days off. Sometimes I'll visit family and friends if i'm not too socialed out form dancing. After 3-4 shifts a week of talking and hustling I'm SOOO tired.

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    sleep. watch bad television. read stripper web. occasionally, if the guilt has built up, clean the house, do laundry, and/or work on homework. i'm planning on checking out the school gym.......(i'm a lazy taurus. )
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    Do you girls dress normally on your day off, or you always wear provocative
    clothes..?? I'm just asking...can u notice a bellydancer/ a gogo girl how she
    dresses or no??

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    I go to class and shopping in dominatrix get-up, complete with short skirt, leather bra top (with metal studs), whip, handcuffs, collar, fishnet stockings, and 8-inch boots.



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    Default Re: What the Bellydancer Does on Her Day Off

    Depends. If it's hot out, I'll wear something risque. If it's cool out I wear jeans and a hooded sweater. Did the same when I was dancing regularly. Same with my daily life.

    Just because a girl is a dancer at night doesn't mean she doesn't have a regular life like everyone else. Sometimes she just has more daytime hours free so it may seem like she has extra time. When in reality she has to do all the stuff other people do when they get off work from their day job.

    AND NO you can't notice a dancer by the way she dresses; you may notice her because she looks like she posesses and effortless beauty and exudes more confidance than most women.

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    Thank you for humoring me. Y'all are patient and kind to answer my question.

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    http://miceland.com/writing/azrael/bellydancer.html

    Modern-day bellydancing as we know it in the west began in San Fransisco. Back then, bellydancers often stripped as well, on different night at different venues. It was all taboo anyway. Now, tell a bellydancer that she is a type of stripper and get slapped in the face!

    As both, I get pissed off at the girls hypocrisy, but I also get upset when bellydancing is looked at as stripping when its not. Go figure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amethyst
    Play Sims2 (yes, I'm a dork)
    I'm a dork, too...I play EQ2.

    Regarding the everyday wardrobe question, I go into "frump mode" for routine errands, sitting around the house, etc, but when I go out socially I'm rather scantilly clad...especially with our biker crew, leather halter tops and all that jazz.

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    I'm so curious to see how dancers look. Do you guys have pictures somewhere??

    I just want to verify if they're cute how ppl say they are, and if they have a nice
    body....like my bf says.

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    ^ there is a gallery. Take a moment to familarize yourself with the site.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_European_Girl
    I'm so curious to see how dancers look. Do you guys have pictures somewhere??

    I just want to verify if they're cute how ppl say they are, and if they have a nice
    body....like my bf says.

    I think we have been over this elsewhere, you need to go to the club with your boyfriend and get with the program. You might learn that your boyfriend has been exagerating just a bit. With the hair, the makeup, the exotic clothes, and the darkness, objects may be hotter than they appear.

    In real life you'd be hard pressed to pick a dancer out of a line up. Here's an idea for you, go to the club just before the shift change. You can then see the girls as they come off the street, before they get all made up. Sometimes the transformation is surprising. That's not to say that all dancers are not good looking outside the club, but rather they look just like the rest of the general population, some hot, some not.

    Oh and guess what, dancers are people too. They have bad hair days, bad makeup days, they go shopping at Target, they do laundry, heck I bet more than one even takes out her own garbage. Get real people.

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    i spend my days off watching my Buffy DVDs, shopping/having coffee with friends, playing around with Adobe Photoshop, hanging out with my boyfriend, playing with my pets, partying occasionally.... nothing very exciting really!

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    Well i go to school and do homework...when im not doing homework im reading...well ok I did have a wild night last night...I had a guinness and played Tekken 5 for about 4 hours....i rule because i got my favorite character to beat heihachi in the final round with a perfect score...I RULE!!!!!!!!! For those of you who don't play Tekken this will make no sense...for those who do..yeah I rule.
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    Now I want to know what your favorite character is. Let me guess... Nina.

    Let me also apologize for my poem. I wrote that like 10 years ago and it wasn't that good then.

    -mice

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    On occasion I do do laundry on my days off...
    Other times I spend far too long on-line, I read books, walk, shop, cycle, sew, play music hang with friends or my son and sometimes have the luxury of doing nothing at all. Never too many dull moments anyway (-:

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    yeah my days off are so lame. go to uni, sleep, do chores, watch TV..all the broing no glamourous stuff normal people do, but when they go out to have fun I'm working. I'm so sad I have no life...egad!
    As for how I dress currently wearing old dirty jeans old dirty sneakers and stolen BF's jumper. Usually just jeans and a black tshirt or tank top and sneakers, even when I go out. I find that since I'm under so much pressure to be done up at work I just cant be bothered when I get home.
    here we have examples of work Misha vs home Misha...

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    I may do any 1 or combination of the following (in no particular order):

    Sleep
    Run errands
    Chat on stripperweb
    Clean house
    Laundry
    Pay bills
    Cook
    Eat
    Spend time with bf
    Sex with bf
    Day trip
    Home improvement
    Catch news
    Read
    Shop
    Movies
    Catch up on soaps via DVR
    Work on website
    Waterpark
    Jetski
    Swim
    Gym
    Organize stuff
    Masterbate
    Catch up with friends/family on phone
    Weekend trip / travel
    Pedicure
    Manicure
    Eat out
    Bar/nightclub
    Drive around aimlessly
    Look for new music
    Burn new CDs
    Geek out with computer
    Take out trash
    Build furniture
    Answer the damn phone
    Ignore the damn phone
    Beach
    Pool
    Dream

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    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_European_Girl
    Do you girls dress normally on your day off, or you always wear provocative
    clothes..?? I'm just asking...can u notice a bellydancer/ a gogo girl how she
    dresses or no??
    Yes, whenever guys see me out in a walmart tank top, jean shorts, and my $.99 flip flops in the summer, or a sweatshirt, jeans, and sneakers in the winter they immediatly know I'm a stripper.
    Alexis



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    Quote Originally Posted by The_European_Girl
    Do you girls dress normally on your day off, or you always wear provocative
    clothes..?? I'm just asking...can u notice a bellydancer/ a gogo girl how she
    dresses or no??
    LOL this is kinda funny. Yeah sure, we wear provocative clothes all the time cuz we're just slutty like that - that's why we have the jobs we do - we're just slutty like that. LOL!

    Seriously, it's a job. We wear a "uniform" for work. After work we wear regular everyday stuff, just like anyone else. Most people have some type of dress requirements for work, but they don't wear their work clothes on days off. Why would we?

    Quote Originally Posted by pheno View Post
    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Eat way too much.
    "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you."
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