Thanks Rachel for the review. And Billie thank you for your comment. I’m a stripper who does burlesque & I agree the hardest part about stripping was more being. Beat down by society & what it automatically meant I was, had been thru etc. etc. etc.

Dr. Farley is a retard who is afraid of sex workers. Dr. Farley cautions her researchers about working with sex workers as it can be emotionally exhausting for them to talk about the sexual violence in their lives. BOO!

I call bullshit on dancers entering into this occupation due to the need to put themselves through college. That is glossing over the reality that this is sexual freedom and a women’s way of liberating herself financially and emotionally. I entered into exotic dancing because I liked to party, tan, drink, work very limited hours, be treated like a princess, sleep all day, go to the gym and start all over again. I could work 6 hours and make all of the money I needed for one week. Who wouldn’t want to make $ 100.00 per hour or more versus $ 10.00 at any other meager job? Which, educationally, was all I was qualified to do.

What the hell are the author’s thinking about dancers talking to school kids? Yup! The parents would love that one just like they love hearing their kids teacher is a former prostitute. The krap sure hits that fan!

This conversation belongs in fields like Farley’s where we can educate about the positive aspects of the sex industry. Now, be aware, I did not love stripping. In fact, I hated it. I loved that stripping gave me a way to provide for myself working very part time hours. At the end of my career, I was emotionally, physically, spiritually and sexually exhausted. This exhaustion came not from the industry from society who wanted to punish me (still) about being in the sex industry.

Thank you for your review Rachel…I will skip this one 🙂

Billie

On an unrelated side note: I wish dancers came to my high school..

I can’t believe she actually name-dropped Melissa Farley. Gross.