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This is just an opinion from a real world example: I've done some stripping when I was young. I did it because my gf was doing it and was making a lot of money

This is just an opinion from a real world example: I've done some stripping when I was young. I did it because my gf was doing it and was making a lot of money. This was the only way we could make good money without breaking the law. I've met the most broken and scummy people there is during that time. It ultimately broke our 7 year relationship. You pay an emotional price for making easy money. You have to be very stable to be able to endure that kind of work over time as you deal with a lot of broken people doing very intimate work. Drugs are very accessible and an easy fix to deal with the emotional toll. People who can work in this industry for more than a year and leave unhurt probably belong in the 1% IMO.

abrazame 5y ago
I’m really interested in reading more of your story. Have you ever done a write up or a longer piece? Or is there one by someone else that you think is fairly on the mark? Do you think there’s a way of mitigating the risk of being hurt / lowering the emotional price for sex work?
johnnyanmac 5y ago
Wouldn't you think that's the result of the fact that it's illegal and pushing away 1. legal protections for the performers 2. "not broken" people who are driven away due to seeing it as "skeevy" 3. As seen here, other mediums where the performer has almost 100% control over the audience? I imagine in some bizzaro world where cash registery workers are "illegal" that you'd run into very similar problem. People suck. And these "dirty" jobs make you run into sucky people more often.
rendall 5y ago
I had 2 close friends who stripped. One was on the ball. Had software that kept track of her income, and banked it. The other earned 5k-10k a night, but did speed to handle it, got super irrational, and turned her entire 250k savings over to some crazy guru character. That sucked

abrazame 5y ago

I’m really interested in reading more of your story. Have you ever done a write up or a longer piece? Or is there one by someone else that you think is fairly on the mark? Do you think there’s a way of mitigating the risk of being hurt / lowering the emotional price for sex work?

johnnyanmac 5y ago

Wouldn't you think that's the result of the fact that it's illegal and pushing away 1. legal protections for the performers 2. "not broken" people who are driven away due to seeing it as "skeevy" 3. As seen here, other mediums where the performer has almost 100% control over the audience? I imagine in some bizzaro world where cash registery workers are "illegal" that you'd run into very similar problem. People suck. And these "dirty" jobs make you run into sucky people more often.

rendall 5y ago

I had 2 close friends who stripped. One was on the ball. Had software that kept track of her income, and banked it. The other earned 5k-10k a night, but did speed to handle it, got super irrational, and turned her entire 250k savings over to some crazy guru character. That sucked