I didn't think we were, but we were having this class lecture the other day about prostitution. I was trying to be a little more informative, because the information was either dated or just very wrong. The prof put up this little diagram showing how escorts make the most, and street girls are the lowest of the low, with brothel workers and strippers somewhere in between.
Well I didn't argue about strippers not quite being prostitutes. Sex for money is what I think of when I think prostitute, and we're not quite doing that, generally speaking. I gave the diagram the benefit of the doubt, thinking that he meant dancers who also sell sex? But even that was wrong, because I know the girls around here who moonlight in prostitution make way more than the escorts do. The going rate for escorts around here is somewhere between $250-300 an hour. The dancers who negotiate hotel deals after hours charge closer to $500-1000. From what I hear, and from what customers tell me. So I didn't like the lower-level classification, or the assumption that it's all the same thing.
I mean, in general the information is really annoying in this text book. I should write what they say about strippers. Something to the effect of making $20 000/ year while rubbing baseball caps on our genitals for the blue collar customers. That was word for word almost. They also said it's a myth that white collar customers ever come into clubs. What the hell?
But even just trying to make some brief corrections of fact was garnering more attention from my classmates than I was comfortable with. I was just wondering if strippers are considered prostitutes by general definition? I didn't so. I don't get too wrapped up in semantics or labelling issues. If they are they are, but I thought there was a difference.



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Whhhat? You paid money for this? Maybe we NEED those undercover strippers writing books and whatnot.





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