also i want to add, without any glibness, that while it’s obvious that Nia’s intentions with this were good, intentions don’t change what is an excruciatingly offensive, and almost entirely factually inaccurate, blog post. So maybe you can talk to her and help her to see why characterising all strippers as sexually assaulted bodies being auctioned off to the highest bidder who need to be represented by people who aren’t themselves, is objectionable?

warmly,

Red

maybe next time you can proof read for her so she doesn’t describe strip clubs as human vending machines?

hey lux! i actually never explicitly stated that Nia isn’t a stripper. I’m not sure what to make of your argument that I misrepresented Nia’s essay, as I literally quoted it! What interpretation would you suggest?

I myself was a stripper for 16 years. I have a podcast called Stripcast that tells my stories. Y’all at T and S have in fact covered my art numerous times.

Yet here you are, flaming one of the FEW ACTUAL STRIPPERS who represent for us within the pole hobbyist community?

The seemingly deliberate misreading of this piece truly boggles the mind of this former English professor.

Way off base with this one, T and A. Waaaaaay off base.

Stripping is the furthest thing ever from an expression of my sexuality (though I never learned to do pole work). It was a JOB. JOB. The most boring, routine job I’ve ever had, but still, a JOB.

Even though escort work, by its nature, comes closer to my real sexuality, it’s still a JOB, it’s still WORK. And when I’m off work, then I can sexually express myself however I like, or not.

There’s so much more here to touch on, this is just what caught me: how all civvies think sex work is about sex and not about work.