Good lord she's bitter about people paying her money to do a job that she chooses to do because she implicitly thinks she can do no better.

It's really hard to have sympathy for such a self-loathing person.

What a loathsome individual. It's obviously worth the $100-$300 an hour to have herself abused because she keeps doing it.

What an utter load of crap.

You make us get naked as animals

and yet

99% of us are addicted to drugs

How about taking some responsibility for yourself? How about you stop blaming your grandfather, your upbringing, your hard, hard life and do something about your situation or stfu?

And the conceit! You think you won the genetic lottery? You consider yourself fuckably hot? Sweetie, there's nothing unsexier than a bitter, blown-out tramp who blames everyone else for her shortcomings and stupidity.

If she weren't so pitiful, I would find this more offensive. As it stands, it's simply tiresome.

I'm with the strippers boss on this one. If you don't like the biz, get out of it. Obviously you think you're pretty hot shit and you deserve the ass loads of money you get for having no other skills than looking decent and having having no qualms about showing off your goods for the money. Welcome to reality. Hot chicks are a dime a dozen. If you think you're so goddamn hot and deserving of money without having to deal with jerks, I guess you better try to give it a go in a magazine.

Then again, I'm sure that biz is much more competitive and you won't get nearly as much money for it. That's what you gotta deal with if you want the big bucks. So shut your mouth, shake your assets and grind on some old smelly cocks cuz if you want stripper money, that's the deal.

Besides. Do you think you'd be making nearly as much as you do now if you aren't up close and personal enough to stroke the money our of his roll? As for me, I'm staying home and watching my damaged females on video. At least they aren't bugging me for a lap dance every 30 seconds.

You get naked like an animal. We pay you gratefully for doing so. No one has a gun to your head saying "You must get naked" You just think you're too good to be making 7.50 an hour at burger king so you undress dance around flash your bits and get dollars showered down. As for the lapdances I've never paid for one and I never will.

You need to realize you're the one that subject yourself to these conditions not men. You don't like it go work at JC Penny's or McDonalds. Otherwise STFU.

You can't expect anyone to respect you if you don't respect yourself. I'm not saying what men do is right. I'm saying what you do is wrong. You're taking the easy way out to get a 300$ an hour job rather then hard work, studying, or dedication. When you take shortcuts like this through life you inevitably pay consequences such as the dirtbags of society abusing you as you claim. (I say claim because I have never seen a strip club where the bouncer will allow the type of activity you claim and I live in Portland.)

I also have serious suspicions that this supposed "stripper" is fraudulent and is probably a church affiliated spokesman.

My 2 bits.

My. God.

Is this woman serious? I don't think there's anything more obnoxious than a self entitled stripper with a victim complex.

Where else can a woman with no marketable skills make 100-300 dollars? MEN have a real racket going on?

Where could a MAN with no experience or job skills go to make that kind of money? Maybe, just maybe he could make it as a drug dealer. Let me break this down for you. This is supply and demand. Many men enjoy looking at and groping naked women. Many women do not like this. This is why stripping pays so well. Now listen very carefully, because this is the important part. You are not entitled to make $200 an hour. You are lucky you have the opportunity to do so. Nobody is forcing you to strip. You are merely too greedy to stop. If you hate it so much, you can quit and see what it's like to be a broke man with no prospects; go get a job flipping burgers for minimum wage. But you don't want to do that. Know that expression about having your cake and eating it too? Tailor made for this situation. You think men are going to pay $30 to wiggle your hips around four feet away? Keep dreaming. Quit giving lap dances, and see what happens.

Stop whining about your extremely high paying job.

Either quit and get a real job, or shut up and get back to work.

I totally agree with this article.
Stripping joints are just another method of woman degradation by our male counterparts.

No other job that only requires a pulse and proof of age will pay her that well. If she's so sick of this life she should concentrate on getting an education and get out of there. I have no sympathy for this woman because no one is forcing her to do anything. A majority of the people in this world need to actually work hard to make a good living, maybe she should try it.

Never seen such self-righteousness in sometime. Note to stripper, use that 100-300 an hour and get a fricking education, dont spend it on drugs. And until then, dont whine. Your destiny is in your own hands.

you know, for a stripper, she sure hates stripping. All I see is, stripping sucks I hate it, but the money is better and I can do this because I am hot, so will keep stripping. I don't feel bad for this girl at all. Like her manager says, " lots of girls will take a finger in the ass for the knid of money your making", probally true, and it kinda comes with the territory. If you want to strip, to make money by being the object of men's desire and shaking your naked ass on the stage in front of a bunch of truck drivers after work, then you are going to have to deal with the lude, crude and inappropraite. I mean you are getting paid to take your clothes off, what did you think would happen? I really have no empathy for her in this situatution. You don't wanna get groped? Then get out of the strip club and go make 8 bucks and hour with the "ugly chicks" at Walmart.

"You make us get naked as animals, a vulnerable feeling when surrounded by fully-clothed drunk/drugged men,..." Oh yeah, forced ya at dollarpoint didn't they. Join a convent and cover up and see if the pay matches what ya get now.

have the work == hate the work*

I once had a young woman randomly walk up to me and boast that she'd made $400 per day. Sizing her up, I replied that I make $1500 per day, and I don't have to take my clothes off. She went from upturned nose to dropped jaw. I said it to jolt her brain and make her open her eyes to possibilities. Two of the oldest and highest paying professions do not require a high school diploma (or GED). One is prostitution (which stripping in any form essentially is). The other is sales.

You're a freakin' stripper. Shut up and give me my lap dance, or get a real job.

"Who's gonna pay me $100-$300 an hour to wash their laundry, work at Carl's Jr., cashier for a convenience store, sell coffee, babysit kids, or anything else that doesn't involve sticking my bouncing breasts and little-girl shaved genitals in men's faces?"

And there it is in a nutshell. You want the money, but you don't like what you have to do to get it. You have a lifestyle that $100 - $300 an hour has afforded you, and you're not willing to change it or give it up.

Minimum wage is the best offered to ugly girls without a high school degree

First the statement about being "fuckably hot" and now this. It's sounding more and more like in your own mind, you believe that you "deserve" to just have someone give you something.

I'm not filled with a whole lot of sympathy here. It sounds like you took the easy way out. You know that you're hot and that guys would respond to that, so you chose a profession to capitalize on that. The question is, what are you doing to get OUT OF this lifestyle? Are you going to school on a serious basis? Are you trying to aquire a technical skill of some kind?

Bottom line:
You buy the ticket, you take the ride.

If someone isn't comfortable doing what they're paid to do, they can do something else. Lord knows I don't make 1/4th what she seems to make, and if you're getting paid that much without having any extremely valuable skills, then you're going to have to get paid that much by doing something people don't want to do. If men were happy just "looking at (you) beautiful ladies", then why wouldn't they just hang out on the damn street - seeing as how the area is "dripping" with them? Or should local men just hand 20s to beautiful women on the beach, for the privilege of being able to see them. I realize that it's difficult to get into a job that can pay the bills, but considering that difficulty and impossibility, and in doing so considering stripping/lap dances a financial necessity, is illegitimate.

The dangers involved - sexual assault, touching, even rape - are unacceptable, and that many of the managers of these establishments condone them is abhorrent.

Now I'm unsure of the amounts involved in lap dances vs regular dancing, though I am sure that the income generated from lap dances is considerably more. The anonymous stripper (A.S) seems to suggest that it's ridiculous that men want to receive lap dances, and that it's disgusting that strippers are practically forced into this practice, in order to receive the substantial amounts involved. It seems, from her responses, that she believes that the women involved should be paid this substantial amount of money for the customary non-personal stripping. I'm sorry, but I cannot see the legitimate logic in that. Men in these instances are paying for a service which has several levels of effectiveness. It's not a very effective method of debate to use the "I'm not touching you, you're gross, pay me like I am touching you though while I dance over here".

The job is often if not constantly demeaning, but the pay seems to correspond accordingly. For example, if I had a well-paying job wading waist-deep in shit pulling clogs out of a sewer. I might hate the job, I might quit the job, I might suggest that instead I just dump a barrel of drano down there, from a cleaner place. What I wouldn't have the right to do is demand that I should get paid for shit-wading when I just dump the drano in there, because I'm entitled it.

While i'm sure this woman has had some issues in her life (if she's telling the truth), there's one fundamental flaw in her argument.

There ARE other avenues she can explore to make decent money. There are modeling agencies that pay rather well, which require no "hands on" experiences as in a club environment. Perhaps an acting career? The Ring Girl job in boxing? A career in Vegas on the strip, that doesn't require an actual strip? These are things this person hasn't taken into account, or simply doesn't want to think about.

In the end, her post simply makes one think that she's in it for the money. There are alot of people out there that don't have college degrees and make good money, because they are driven to succeed. She could to, but she'd rather take the easy way out and complain, than to get off her half naked butt and do something about it. she's completely responsible for her *current* situation, and she's completely responsible for doing something about it.
And that, as they say, is that.

wow... you should just not strip. you obviously dont like the work, so why be one? id much rather have a stripper thats not a bitch dance 4 feet from me then stick my thumb in anything of yours lol.

bottom line. you dont like it. dont do it and shut the f&*$ up

By the way, both Lusty Ladys were no touching way before the SF shop was unionized.

Ok women- speak up! This stripper's tale may be true, or not. But what's interesting is that no one (inc. the many people who have posted comments) denies that what she is subjected to tolerate at work is offensive/insulting/demeaning. BUT it's all ok because she chooses to strip and because she is compensated (very well) for it?? No it is not. Men know that this is a horrible way to treat women and rationalize it by the fact that women choose this work and are paid lots of $$ for stripping and more. Still does not make it right.