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    I post on another intrenet message board, and the views of one of the posters are very disturbing to me.


    She believes that most (maybe even all) strippers were sexually abused as children, and that via their mental damage became strippers.

    And she also believes that a lot of strippers are prostitutes as well.


    I just wanted to get all your ladies insight into these opinions.

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    Well, that's a rash overgeneralization.

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    That is silly and incorrect.

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    Yes, they are ignorant. They are also common misconceptions that don't really matter.

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    Anybody that lumps a group of people into one category are ignorant.
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    Very very generalized. Kind of like saying all lawyers are crooks, etc.
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    This reminds me of Howard Stern. I used to watch him on E sometimes. He would always accuse the porn stars of being molested. When some of them said they weren't, he'd say that they must have been. Ugh.

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    The way I see it is, you have to feel sorry for people like that to be that closed minded that they'll never get to fully experience the wonderful parts in life and never get to meet and understand many wonderful people out there because of how narrow minded they are.

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    actually, many strippers WERE sexually abused as children.


    because 1 out of every 3 girls (in america anyway) is sexually abused by the age of eighteen.

    she needs to be clued in on the facts about WOMEN period, and to the fact that female strippers are indeed women and mearly have their flaws pointed out moreso because of the negative view of the job. on the prositution thing, i'm sure she thinks most strippers are prostitutes and would easily assume someone is because of the job, which is wrong. however, there ARE a lot of prostitutes in this industry. because of the nature of the job, it attracts prostitution. it's just the way it is. it is still wrong to assume that we all are. also, i wish people like her would get their head out of their ass and research the causes for the incidents she rants about. maybe she should focus her time on worrying about what causes so many people in this country to become violent criminals and sexual predators in the first place.

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    ^^^ Which is a fact many people choose to ignore. Those figures are used against us so often, when in reality the figures are exactly the same as for any other profession.

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    People sometime only see what they want to see. Some girls who became strippers have been molested. So they theorize that they became strippers because of the abuse. But there are many women who were molested as children and have not worked as a stripper, or anything else in the sex industry. I have two loving parents and was not molested.

    I do think someone who works as a stripper may be more willing to do some prostitution work, than most women. But most strippers are not prostitutes, and some women who are prostitutes have no interest in stripping. I good friend from high school who has a day job in a doctors office, earns a little extra on the side as an escort. She would never consider stripping because of the chance someone would recognize her. As an escort she see mostly men from out of town, so there is very little chance of meeting someone she knows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker
    ^^^ Which is a fact many people choose to ignore. Those figures are used against us so often, when in reality the figures are exactly the same as for any other profession.

    yep. it's like the only profession where it's "ok" to look down at someone because of what they may or may not have been through.

    many doctors, lawyers, etc. have been sexually abused or had an otherwise horrible childhood. most people just don't suspect it, and if they DO know about it, they think "wow, how courageous that she got through it". when a stripper is a former victim of abuse, it's "ok" to assume that she's obviously still living as a victim.

    *edited to add* one of the worst parts about sexual molestation and rape is that a victim is forever seen as damaged in the eyes of society. it's not who someone is. it's one, of many MANY things that help to shape a persons personality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xbloodydewdropx
    ... Kind of like saying all lawyers are crooks....
    Um, not really, 'cause that one happens to be true!

    Ja ja ja... JK! Seriously, though, the person you're referring to (as well as anyone else expressing sentiments of this sort) should, at the very least, make sure to qualify same as an "expression of their personal opinions/beliefs," as opposed to an "assertion of fact," 'cause unless/until they're able to produce "proof," i.e., studies/research that employ appropriate methodoligies and yield verifiable results which can withstand the scrutiny of peer review, that's all their statements are.
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    There are usually a few problems with studies that say they "prove" this. One, they never have a control group to compare them to--for instance, a group of teachers they interviewed to see what the percentage of teachers who have been molested is. And then they usually ask questions in a way that solicits certain kinds of responses--would they talk to someone who was not a stripper that way? And also, people who have worked in the sex industry are often able to identify a wider range of behaviors as sexual. So they might be aware of something having been sexually abusive, when another person who does not have the experience that would enable them to identify the behavior as sexual, might have had the same thing happen to them but would say they were not abused.

    Some people who talk about how damaged strippers are claim they want to help them. I think they usually just stigmatize them more--especially if they can get funding for research out of it.

    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisB
    I post on another intrenet message board, and the views of one of the posters are very disturbing to me.


    She believes that most (maybe even all) strippers were sexually abused as children, and that via their mental damage became strippers.

    And she also believes that a lot of strippers are prostitutes as well.


    I just wanted to get all your ladies insight into these opinions.
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    What effing ever. Stereotypes run rampant in certain professions, especially those that garner a great deal of controversy/attention. Think of all the stereotypes concerning rock stars. People believe the stereotypes because a) it's more interesting than well-adjusted women dancing, and b) it sets them apart from the dirty, molested women who dance.
    While, yes, there are dancers who have been molested, there are also doctors, accountants, and people working the drive-thru window that have been abused. It speaks more to the prevalence of abuse than the career one chooses to pursue.

    I would love to reply in depth, but I'm a little too busy being a drug-addicted, molested, broken whore.

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    I know plenty of strippers who were never molested and plenty of "white collar professionals" who were.

    Saying "all" or "most" before any statements like the OP posted usually renders it completely false.

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