Yet I’ve seen example of “sad strippers” but those have problems with there own lifes. Problems that they are affraid to face or they can not solve. Like the girl in the video, she has issues with her own dad, she can not be honest with him like “Look dad, I’m going to be a dancer. I need the money. I respect your opinion but you should respect my choise.” If they work in the local bakery, they would have the same issues just different solution. Probably obesity. Just in the night alcohol and drugs are easier to reach.

And I’m often wondering about customers who come every second night to the club, drunk and/or high and spending stupid money on someone who shows them a little love and attention… so who is the sad here?

Yeah, sorry, all material on this site is by and for sex workers, with vague exceptions in cases like a sex worker interviewing a non-sex worker, a sex worker collaborating with a non-sex worker, etc. BUT that’s a great idea! We’d love someone to review Satisfaction for us, so if you had a Satisfaction fan sex worker friend you could team up to write such a review with, that’d be awesome.

(Psst – not sure if it’s politically correct to say this but Satisfaction is up on Thepiratebay if you want to download it 😉 Pretty good quality, too!)
Also I would love to write a little something about the show for you – except I’m not actually a sex worker, just an interested feminist. ^^” (I mean, if I understood correctly, the published material on this site is primarily written by sex workers so perhaps I wouldn’t be qualified. ^^)

Angry makes more money than sad, that’s for sure.

re: Satisfaction — It’s Australian. They don’t have the hangups around sex that the UK and US does. Colonization by criminals instead of religious nuts has been a fairly successful social experiment, IMO.

Off topic, but I SO wanted to watch Satisfaction–it used to be on Netflix, but they took it off. Anyone know of where else I can watch it in the US? Also, we’d love it if someone wrote about the show for us at Tits and Sass.

It may be about prostitution rather than stripping, but this is the main reason why I was so happy to discover the Australian show “Satisfaction” – finally, a story about sex workers who actually make the conscious decision of taking up the job (for lots of different reasons, too) and have personalities that go beyond the boohoo-I-sold-my-soul trope that you always see.
Otherwise, movies like “Dancing at the Blue Iguana”, “Exotica” and “Showgirls” have one or two angry strippers, though they do tend to soak in a rather blue, morose mood for the most part. (Though, the Blue Iguana does have some great fraternizing – dare I say “humanizing” – scenes between the strippers themselves, and the fact that the actors were prompted to “improvise” in order to bring depths to their own characters makes for some pretty interesting personalities.)
As for novels, asides from Belle de Jour’s journals I have yet to read novels with a happy sex worker as main character (or even as secondary characters.) But at least there are one or two representations that go further than the eternal “sad stripper”! Will definitely keep searching for more, I know there must be at least /some/ obscure novels out there. ^^