Danzine is a great organization in the Portland, OR area that caters to women in the sex industry. I've met a couple of the women that run it and they are just regular women who use their bodies as their trade. They are smart (lots of college women strip to pay for tuition/books) and all of them look just like normal people. I think (most) strippers are a different breed than the women that do photo shoots. Strippers have a level of anonimity since no one is taking their picture to be immortalized on the 'net. Also, strippers have some contact with their customers, whereas the photo girls will probably never see their many admirers (Swan.....).
The nice thing about Danzine is that they help women in the biz and let each other know where the good places are to strip. One of the women I spoke with said she only strips for a total of 2 months or so out of the year. She travels all over the US going to various strip clubs and earns a decent living.
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