Eva wrote:I would rather have worked part-time for minimum wage and lived in a vermin-infested apartment without furniture (which I've done) than to take a job stripping. No amount of money can buy back your self-worth.
Yes, I think many - most - people feel that way. I would perhaps too, I dont know, never had to consider it because there's not even the smallest niche of a market for me anyway <grins>.
But other people do not have their self-worth invested in a thing like this. If you feel you would lose your self-respect by stripping, than no, no possible money that you could earn with it would get it back for you, so you definitely should not do it. But other women are able to do a job like that and not have it impact their sense of self-worth. Or they feel more humiliated by working in some mindnumbing job for minimal money and being treated like expendable nothings in it than by doing this. Its just how it works for you personally I guess, what affects you more or less.
I think in an ideal world almost nobody would be stripping - or not beyond the kind of exploratory intermezzo with it that some women feel attracted to, anyway. Very few would do it for very long, I dont think, if they could get a nice other job. But when that is out of reach, I suppose some feel stripping is less demeaning than a crap job for crap money, while others feel that they preserve their dignity more if they
don't resort to living on their body. It's an individual thing.
