Stripper Economics 101
Ok before any jumps to any conclusions here - this is NOT a thread about my Stripper College.
I was just looking at a couple posts on the ol' Titty Board. One of my favorites - Sandy (Blonde, does a lot of work as a lesbian / dyke) was in two different posts I was looking at. They were each over 100 pictures long and she ate a lot of pussy. One was a Suze Randall post and the other one was a Karupps PC post. Both were stamped with 2000 on them. I started to think about the fact that 2000 was a busy year for her. Then I started to think about how much money these broads make.
I really don't know.
On one hand you have plain old stripping. If you are super hot and you are working in Vegas, I know you can make over $1000 per night. We will leave out the real skanks here and rat hole strip joints. If you are hot though and an average neighborhood strip joint, I would think that you can make (cash) $300 - 500 per night. I dunno - discuss this below as well, but stick with me here. $300 cash working 4 nights a week for 50 weeks is roughly equivalent to making $100,000 before taxes.
Not too bad for a young girl with (maybe) no brain. Obviously when we are talking between $300 and $1500 cash you can see these gals are making good money. Most of the time you have lap dances and stuff and guys grope you, but really there is not too many strip joints for hot women that have any exchange of bodily fluids. So overall there is a limit to how hard you have to work for your money.
Now back to our girl Sandy. How much does she (or any other of the gals on the TFP) make? I mean every Sandy post she either eats pussy or sucks a dick (and gets semen squirted on her). She is not one of those fakers either. She really eats the shit. A set of 150 good shots probably takes 500 -1000 photos to amass. Also, you are likely there for a good long while. Posing and doing all that crap. Even so, I usually don't consider the gals on the TFP porn stars as such. They are not USUALLY in movies (I know there is plenty of crossover here but stick with me).
You figure Sandy the stripper has a choice. She can strip at her local strip joint, make good money and even hold down another "real" job for after her tits sag. As long as she can keep her preverbal nose clean, she can come out of this thing pretty well and really outside of her local area, no one ever has to know she was a stripper. She can marry well and have kids and the whole thing. Now I know that not too many get the fairy tale to come true, but it is out there.
The other choice (or addition to the aforementioned vocation) is to pose in these shots. I would think that while doing the shots and getting known on the internet would help your stripper career a little, I don't know how many folks in the real world know who these gals are. I mean really - we only know the "names" of a few of these chics. The downside as I mentioned is that lots of people will know you and maybe there is more stigma associated with it. You are more afraid that folks will recognize you.
With that in mind, what is one of these shoots worth to a gal? I don't feel like $1000 for one of these things is really worth it for the girl, but for some of the lower quality gals, I can't see them commanding even that. Doing 15 shoots a year at $1000 is only adding $15k to that $100k - $150k lifestyle. (And hell who knows if you have to pay taxes on that).
The final thought is that I consume a good deal of smut and yet other than the forthcoming donation to the TFP, I have never paid for it. It is supposed to be a $7 Billion dollar industry according to Forbes. I get it all essentially for free and I already have more than I can ever use. I don't know too many people who have paid for it and I definitely do not know anyone who devotes any kind of ongoing money to it. Where the money comes from to pay these gals is beyond me.
The question is what do the gals of the TFP (and the rest of the internet make? What range do you think we are working with here?
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