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    Default Stripper Psychology

    This is for women in the Sacramento & SF Bay Area, CA.
    I am working on a book detailing life experiences of strippers, female escorts & sex workers.
    I am looking to examine the psychology of women in the adult trade and need to have conversations with various women, of any legal age, regarding their upbringing, childhood, young adulthood and current life status. The conversations will be casual, but honesty & frankness are essential. I will be asking very in-depth questions in a respectful, non-judgemental atmosphere in a safe setting. Some of the conversations may be recorded for the sake of accuracy.
    I am a woman and we will be meeting in a public place so there will be no physical safety concerns.
    No compensation as such. I'll spring for the coffee or wine though.
    If interested, please reply with your general info (age, what type of job you have/had in the adult industry and in what city you reside.) You need not include your name.

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    Are you serious????

    Hmmmmmmmmm... I am doubtful that you will get the type of response you are looking for here... I think people may be more responsive if you decided not to conduct interviews in person but rather through a survey question/answer type of study...

    Best of luck!!!
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    Default Re: Stripper Psychology

    Many of the long time users of this site are a bit tired of getting requests such as this.

    Maybe try some of the stripper blogs and see what you can glean from that, and then ask the blogger questions pertinent to your area of research.


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


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    Even some of the not-so-longtime users of this site are getting tired of requests such as this. Why is it every person wanting to interview strippers always seems to simply google up SW and post the same damn request here as their VERY FIRST POST??? Don't they realize they have no credibility this way????

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    An odd thing about these requests is that I'll bet the "researchers" could get more and better data, and answers to just about any question they could ever imagine asking, simply by lurking and reading SW extensively, especially if they used the search function systematically. And if, somehow, there were topics on which they wanted more or better info, it would be easy enough to "de-lurk" and either start new threads or nudge existing ones in that direction. Such an approach might not be considered good scholarship or ethical or whatever, but I'll still bet they'd get more valid and interesting results.

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    Default Re: Stripper Psychology

    ^^ "researchers"

    the quotes say it all

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    Default Re: Stripper Psychology

    I got an idea Afrodesia.

    Why dont you go into a gentlemen's club, and "research" entertainers at $30 bucks a song.

    K...thnx


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    We have our own books to write.
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    Ask them about their childhood and upbringing and offer no reasonable compensation? Good Luck, ha!

    What do you girls think about a fiction novel about the drama of dancers in a city? Think it would sell?
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    You're asking entertainers to hand of their life story for no compensation or reward for you to profit off of. I think you need to be a bit more realistic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Afrodesia
    I am looking to examine the psychology of women in the adult trade.
    Why not try stripping yourself, or at least spend some time (and $) in the clubs - it's probably the best most enlightening form of research to actually experience some of it for yourself.

    I'm a little bit sick of people wanting to question our childhoods and upbringing to see if it somehow relates to us choosing to strip for a living. It doesn't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by red red red
    We have our own books to write.
    ^^Hell yeah!

    Seriously, though, there's nothing like true ethnographic research. Get a job dancing and then you'll really know what being a dancer is really all about as well as really knowing what the experiences of other women in this industry are from working wiht them. Its interesting that you think chilhood plays an important role in someone's choise to be a stripper . . . stereotypes maybe?

    As for the niche in the market of sex worker books, I'm not really sure there is that much more to be said, unless you were to go about it from a different angle or give it a unique context.

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    You have to ask at this point what must this women think. You know she is brain dead from the outset. I am sure everyone knows the same thing happened to Margaret Mead. A lady anthropologist who got conned by a couple of native girls in Fiji or someplace like that. Years later the girls came forward and told that they made up all of the stuff she wrote down. Yet textbooks by Margaret Mead are still taught in most major universities. I think anyone living in this ladies area should meet with her and fill her with a bunch of BS and then twenty years later write about the BS that she swallowed.

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    This woman thinks she is going to make money off our personal experienes...exploitation, anyone?

    btw she probably is legit, I work here in sac and there was a hand-written note back stage at my club with the same info as in this thread. There have already been several books written on the subject of stripping, escorting, etc. What the hell, I'll do her a favor and sum up everything she's going to find out during her research:

    -some of us were abused, most of us weren't
    -some of us have/had drug problems, most of us haven't
    -many of us are single moms, many more are college students
    -some of us make over $150,000 a year, many of us make less than $50.000

    ...did I miss anything?

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    I think anytime one wants to use the word "stripper," s/he should substitute the word "woman" instead. The generalizations make exactly as much sense. Strippers are just women after all, and we're just as diverse as the larger group.

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    Quote Originally Posted by calliope7
    As for the niche in the market of sex worker books, I'm not really sure there is that much more to be said, ...
    True no doubt, but when did that ever stop someone from publishing "yet another book" about an endless list of topics of all sorts. Go to any random shelf in the non-fiction section of your local boodstore, and you'll likely find a ton of redundant books whatever topic is shelved there.

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    Funnily enough, I am no researcher.
    I used to be a dancer and would like to see if other women had the same type of upbringing I did.

    I do not want to go to a club as I believe that would taint the discussion and create an atmosphere of non-neutrality. I also do not want to have to pay for my info. Ethically that is not appropriate for me. If you aren't interested, leave the thread alone and allow those who may want to engage in a frank & non-judgemental discussion to do so at their interest.

    I am very surprised members would be so quick to judge being as how they may have had experienced being judged due to the type of work they do. Throwing stones is no way to grow or create an atmosphere of acceptance.

    A little tolerance might be in order.

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    none of the posters here are under any obligation to 'tolerate' weaselling queries into their lives and backgrounds. you're also completely misinformed about research ethics.

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    Hey, why don't you try something no one here seems to have thought of...contacting me!
    What a novel idea.
    What I think you'll find is a very cool & curious woman, mother, chef, chick, ex-stripper (or whatever you want to label it that helps everyone sleep better at night) with a great sense of humor who is accepting of all types of people from all types of backgrounds.
    Which is certainly more than I can say for most of the people who have decided to share their feelings.
    Then again, I respect that too.

    I can't speak for all the other books on the subject. I don't do things for or against others. I do what I feel is right for me and speaking with people helps me learn about the world around me & myself.
    As for making money on the thing. Looks like there are so many other books that there's no market for it. I couldn't care less about a profit anyway.
    Hard to believe?
    Maybe people look at things differently.

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    So not interested.

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    You have to offer a little more incentive. My professor pays recently released inmates $50 to sit down and talk to him so he can do his research. It's a little pricey, but it validates his intentions, and offers the inmates a little more incentive to give him something in return. While I do believe your intentions are good, I think the one thing holding you back is lack of funding. You're wanting o write on a controversial and interesting topic (at least it's interesting to me) so make it worth their while. I hope you do get bites on your offer, I'd be interested in what you found out; but I honestly don't think you'll have much luck finding it here, but all the luck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Afrodesia
    I am very surprised members would be so quick to judge being as how they may have had experienced being judged due to the type of work they do. Throwing stones is no way to grow or create an atmosphere of acceptance.

    A little tolerance might be in order.
    A little understanding as to why there is so little tolerance regarding this matter on your own part might be too, and I'm sure this mistrust you've encountered here is not just unique to members of this forum. Once people have been conditioned to having stones thrown at them, at some point they tend to start throwing stones themselves. If you're truly an ex-dancer you should understand that to some degree.

    I'd recommend starting your research by reading the boards here. It's free I may add.
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

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    Afrodesia, you sound like my mom.
    Now that we're here, it's so far away
    All the struggle we thought was in vain
    And all the mistakes, one life contained
    They all finally start to go away
    And now that we're here, it's so far away
    And I feel like I can face the day
    I can forgive
    And I'm not ashamed to be
    The Person that I am today
    ~Staind

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    Quote Originally Posted by Afrodesia
    I also do not want to have to pay for my info. Ethically that is not appropriate for me. .
    A few years ago I took part in a very thorough and professional interview with an anthropologist studying the rave & clubbing scene. She paid me $40 for my time. This is an extremely common practice, which makes me wonder whether you are worried more about ethics or about your personal purse strings.

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    Afro, you could have become a member and gotten to know some of the dancers here, or read what they posted. That is, do your homework. Besides, this is a very interesting place.

    Maybe you're writing a term paper due in early March for a class. That would explain the impatience.

    Anyhow.... What good would a 1-2 hour meeting about uncovering past traumas opf strangers do for the truth? Some of this stuff is painful for them to talk about.
    I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.

    Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.

    NOTE: anything I post here, outside of a direct quote, is my opinion only, which I am entitled to. Take it for what you estimate it is worth.

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