Stripped Bare- Surviving the Industry: The Good, Bad and Downright Ugly Truth

First off, this is NOT IN ANY WAY RELATED TO SEX WORK OTHER THAN STRIPPING!! I love all my sex worker sisters and I'm not bashing escorts. Escorts are NOT strippers who do extras inside a club. If you do both, just keep it outside the club. So to all my sex worker sisters, this is only meant to educate strippers as to how they're damaging our industry by doing extras inside a club. Imagine you're a stripper and in desperate need of extra cash; what do you do? There's always the option of picking up an extra shift but maybe you don't have time. Business is slow and you're about to lose your apartment. You and your two kids won't have a place to go. A customer offers you extra money if you allow him to finger your pu$$y or suck on your nipples. You do it because you feel you need to and your justification is that you're doing this for your kids. The customer then proceeds to offer you a decent amount of cash to meet him at a hotel after work. You're

There are multitudes of stigmas surrounding stripping including the fact that people think we don't respect ourselves. We get nude in front of crowds. We put ourselves out there. We should "expect" to be disrespected, have our boundaries pushed, and being sexually assaulted. Stop that! Stop thinking what you're thinking RIGHT NOW! "But are they wrong?" Yes. The answer to that is, always has been, and always will be "YES"!! 1) "You're getting naked for strange men and you don't expect to be touched?" You're damn right I expect not to be touched! The basic decorum and laws of society don't stay at the door. They very much apply within. You wouldn't get away with grabbing a random woman's pu$$y out on the street, so don't do it to strippers; it's NOT okay and it IS absolutely considered sexual assault. Just. Don't. Do. It!  **If any sort of contact is allowed it's still illegal {and immoral