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Originally Posted by Toaster126
No, it's four. They said that every girl they worked with (literally) at the three clubs had been or were addicts at one point. So that's like 40 girls. Also, when I read Jenna Jameson's biography, she mentioned how everyone was addicted to various drugs. I was merely relaying their statements, and stand behind mine.
I apologize for my 99.9999% remark, though. It was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. It's more like 95%.  |
Well, if you read my long and self-indulgent posts in the "does stripping exploit women?" thread, then you know I'm not in denial about the seamier side of the biz.
But still, take my experience: I had two four-month stints during which I was, to put it delicately, a raging cokehead. Each time, I got scared and quit cold-turkey without any intervention or 12-step program or rehab. After the second stint, I never touched it again. (That was well over a decade ago.) I don't think I ever had a serious addiction, or I wouldn't have been able to leave it alone like that. (It was the same with alcohol: I often drank too much while I was dancing, because it was just part of the lifestyle. Now I drink very moderately....Unless, of course, you put a case of '61 Petrus in front of me. Then I would be quite
immoderate.
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And I don't think that my two brief, long-ago tangles with the white pony should somehow disqualify me as a potential partner now. (If I'm not mistaken, you advised against
ever dating an ex-stripper.) There may be lots of
other good reasons not to date me, but that, I think, is not one of them. So there.
Of course, if you'd run into me in the club during one of those four-month stints, my behavior would've supported your contention that virtually all dancers have drug problems (and I think you used the present tense in your first post. Including dancers who have indulged in illicit drugs at one point or another in their lives definitely increases the percentage)....But at any other time during my 13-year involvement in the industry, you would've said, "Wow, a dancer who doesn't do drugs!" (That is, if you even believed me.)
As for the percentage of dancers who "have or have had drug problems," how 'bout we just say it's "considerably higher than that of the general population"?
Oh, and about lapdances for my man: It's weird, but I haven't done it very often. Not that I'd have any objections whatsoever, if it were requested. Maybe it loses some of its mystique for a BF if he knows that you've done it in a professional capacity??
What do you think, guys? Is it hotter to have a woman dance for you if you know that she's doing it "just for you," and would never in a million years do it for any random stranger who dangled a twenty dollar bill in front of her?