So, I'm taking some online classes, and for Personality Psychology, the first assignment is to write a quick bio, with our goals, interests, hobbies, etc. Everyone has written about their career goals, families, hobbies, blah, blah, etc, and their current jobs. I'm torn about whether or not to talk about stripping. I mean, everyone in my life knows about it from my friends and parents, to my co-workers and bosses when I was a social worker (not the clients though), and I'm not used to lying about it. I've been torn on whether or not I'm going to be 'out' as a stripper in grad school - seven years + is a long time to hide it, but academia is, well, academia. I've been tempted to use this class as a testing ground, but also terrified that it might affect my grade, which I need to have be top-notch. I can't meet the professor in person to check her out either. I'm already a little freaked out by the fact that everyone else seems very mainstream, with husbands, fiancees, kids, and plans to be kindergarten teachers or something like that. All fine and dandy for them of course, but I'm a promiscuous (which I feel no need to disclose) lesbian, interested in doing couples counseling with alternative communities (kink, poly, and queer) with emphasis on sex therapy, and I am talking about my career goals. Not to say that all these married future kindergarten teachers couldn't be twisted perverts just as much as the rest of us, but I'm, well, hesitant. Any suggestions on disclosure? Anyone had any experience with being an out stripper in academia?



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