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    Hello, I'm a journalism student at UCI working on writing a paper for one of my classes. A dancer friend referred me to this site. I have a few questions and if any of you would be willing to answer a few, it would be of great assistance. This paper will not be published. It is solely for the eyes of myself and my instructor.

    I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I am a little clueless and need a lot of help understanding stripping and the women in that profession. Please help me learn!

    The aim of the article is to show how the stripper image and trend (as perceived by society) affects people emotionally. I want to shed some light on a profession that society sometimes frowns upon because sex is so taboo in America. I have spoken to many women that have found it empowering and boosts there confidence, but I have spoken to women who feel the opposite. Let me know how you feel!

    If you would like, feel free to email me with responses so they're not in public view. Thanks in advance!!!


    What is your name? (stage names are ok!)

    How old are you?

    Where do you dance? (if you don't want to say your club, city and state or county is fine)

    How long have you been dancing?

    When did you start in exotic dance?

    What got you interested?

    How did you learn? Did you study or learn as you went?

    There are currently a lot of exotic dance/pole dance workout classes. Have you ever seen or taken one of these classes?

    Why do you feel women take these classes?

    Do you feel that these classes encourage your profession?

    What do you feel these classes do for views on your profession?

    How do you feel about your profession?

    Do many people know that you are a dancer? Why or why not?

    What can one get from dancing that you can apply to everyday life? How does it make you feel outside of work?

    How does your profession affect the men in your life (in and out of the bedroom)?

    Why do you want to dance? Do you see it as a career or a temporary job for you?

    I've noticed that in a lot of stores there are a lot more clear heels and sexy costumes, especially for Halloween, etc. They seem to be coming from the exotic dancer's stage style. Do you think that this style is becoming a trend? How does this style make women feel?



    I know it's a lot, but if you can answer as much as you can, I'd be extremely grateful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a5k2h5

    The aim of the article is to show how the "stripper" lifestyle and trend affects people emotionally.
    I have a question...

    how come it's "stripper" lifestyle and not stripper "lifestyle"?

    Anyway, welcome to stripperweb. Keep reading. I can tell by your questions that you don't even know what to ask to figure out what's going on in our heads.

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    There's a stripper lifestyle? Gee - I must of missed that memo.

    Perhaps I need to start doing papers and such. Hmmm..


    Plus, here's a news flash for you honey - Why would someone who does what we do for a living want to answer such personal questions? Do you think that just because we get naked for a living - everything else that we seem to posses is open for inspection as well?

    Get a clue.

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    Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. I'm not familiar with the terms. Please, enlighten me! I know I have a lot to learn.

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    you didn't offend. I understand your intentions are not to be mean. But why so many questions on pole dancing (for instance) if you want to figure us out? I haven't touched a pole in a long time and I'm very good at my job. These types of thing you wouldn't know unless you read up a little more. The research you can do by snooping will be much more beneficial than this survey.

    We just get these types of queries all the time and the questions are a little rude because they imply we're social misfits.

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    Another hint.. Search function. Use it, love it..

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    Totally understandable. Thank you for realizing my intentions were different than my wording may indicate.

    Is there some way that I can search the site for questions like this? I know it's tedious to answer the same stuff over and over again to try to enlighten people like me.

    I know that these questions are nothing more than a task and I'm really going out on a limb hoping that someone will answer at least one of them. I understand these questions are personal, but it's my way of trying to find out what really happens. I'm open to any suggestions to help me learn.

    Once again, I'm really sorry if I upset or offend anyone. This is not my intent. I'm just trying to learn more and be able to write about stripping in a view that people like me that have no idea don't see. I'm not trying to make you sound like outcasts - I'm trying to show how people are more influenced by dancers than they really think and breakdown people's misconceptions.

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    Are there any phrases in particular you would suggest that I search for?

    I'm sorry, I'm new to this board and completely clueless on everything.

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    What I'm saying (and I guess the point was glossed over) was that the people we are inside of work are different than the people we are outside work. Asking work-related questions is futile for this "reseach" you're doing. It's not that they are personal (I mean, they are, but that's not the problem)...it's that they smack of judgment, lack of any research or effort. Don't ask me 4 questions about pole dancing if you want to find out how I think and what people think of me. These are the type of questions a girl considering dancing would ask, especially considering that this research is for your own personal use. Maybe you should check out the Newbie Board

    If you took a few minutes to read Stripping General or Ladies Only, you would have answered many of your questions.

    And FFS, if one more person asks me why I want to dance. I mean, really...do you want to do pointless research your whole life?

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    Thanks Emily. I snapped where I should of explained..

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    You do seem like your trying. Why don't you just give us your thesis and we'll say some quotable things?



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    Thanks for bearing with me. I know people like me must be extremely frustrating.

    What I'm trying to show is that there isn't a specific type of "stripper". I went to a class to talk to one of the instructors and some of the students to see how dancing makes them feel.

    Honestly, the questions about why you dance and how long and shit is because my teacher things that writing is a formula. She doesn't like what I want to write about, but I found something I want to learn about and I'm going to write about it anyway. She wants me to do learn "research" - I want to learn out people and what they do.

    I understand that stripping isn't your whole life. Hell, I'm Snoopy at Knott's Berry Farm - that isn't my whole life! I just want to see how you feel your job affects people, how it affects you. I know it's personal stuff, but that's what I really want to learn. The other details are just shit that my teacher wants.

    Hell, I could write a Pulitzer worthy paper and I'd still get a bad grade because she refuses to look past her wrongful assumptions.

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    I'd turn in that last post, best and most truthful thing Ive read today! You answered everything you need to know yourself.....give yourself your own prize!

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    I think it's possible that your teacher doesn't like your idea because it's such a subjective thing to "research," as opposed to some deeply ingrained stripper-prejudice (which I don't doubt exists too, but for the purpose of the assignment, she's probably right...).

    Have you tried narrowing the subject down at all? It would be more interesting, IMO, to focus on the stripperobics pole classes and the women who attend them... and when you find out why they do what they do, you can report back because I know I'm curious about them!

    Then it'd be easier to do some hard, cold, statistical research: i.e., how many of these classes exist in your area? What's the attendance rate? Who is teaching them? Who is going to them? How much do they pay to learn some stripper moves for fun and exercise? Once you can identify the trend in statistical terms, you can mess around with the hows and whys a little more.

    Also... your average stripperobics class-taker is probably going to be a lot more open to answering questions than your average stripper.

    I know how you feel about wanting to know how and why people do the things they do and how they feel about them as opposed to "research." But I mean... it's college. You'll be able to do what you want to do soon enough.

    Good luck with your paper!
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    a5k2h5-I sent you a PM-did you get it? Also check out this site-I came across it when I was considering dancing and found it to be very interesting and informative. It's called Alysabeth's Feminist Stripper Site-here's the url: http://www.geocities.com/alysabethc/strippers.html

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    Thank you all for being so helpful! Honestly, my interviews with the instructor of the "strip-aerobics" class kind of disappointed me. She said she "respects" strippers and what they do, but it seems like she still has some of societies misconceptions lurking inside her. It was kind of like she though the classes and stuff were fun, but she'd never consider dancing with an audience.

    Something interesting was that she said she's had women of all shapes and sizes and ages. She said she taught one woman that was 70! She also referred to them as "everyday women" - like strippers crawl into some hole and disappear and aren't actively living lives when they're not dancing.

    I just thought the views were pretty contradictory for a woman who teaches exotic/pole dancing and spreading this form of dance to other women.

    I guess it goes to show how society grinds these views into people's heads. I don't understand why people can be shown on a movie getting their head blown off, but heaven forbid you should show tha human body! It's like Americans are afraid of their bodies and sex when it's a totally natural thing. So, since stripping is sexy, they think it's bad too and don't bother trying to learn more to form their own opinions.

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    umm, why don't you go to a club and talk to some of the girls?? at least get a better idea of what stripping is, how a club works, how dancers interact, may help you formulate some questions... I have some friends at UCI, I'm @ the Cal St. U. in LB... I dance at a club in Santa ana/costa mesa- there are plenty in the area, if you want to talk to girls and start to understand a bit more I suggest mine (Ecstasy) or Tabu (anaheim?) or hustler in westminster.
    pm me if you'd like- good luck!

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    I knew that some of you girls were curious, so I'm letting you know what I got from some of the students at the striptease class.

    The said, basically, it's not a striptease class. It's exotic dance and pole dance. They seemed to make it very clear they're not stripping. Then, they almost seemed to express that they were better than strippers - like higher class. They seemed pretty opposed to stripper, which suprised me because these girls were younger and younger people are usually more open-minded. Another interesting thing - none of these girls had been to a club themselves and went purely off of heresay. It seems like just taking these classes is almost a double life for them. They say they're afraid to tell certain people because they don't want to be thought of as strippers.

    I was pretty suprised about these comments when they're whole class that they're paying for is derived from a form of dance used by strippers.

    Just keeping the curious up to date on what I'm hearing... I'm sure you have a lot more to say on this than I do.

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