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First off, I have to say that I have been a stripper for 3 years. I use the term stripper, because that&#39;s what I am. I do dance, but that&#39;s not why people come to watch me, and I know that. I&#39;m not lying to myself. A lot of people hate strippers because we take their money, because we lie to them, because we won&#39;t have sex with them, or because sometimes we do have sex with them. No girl ever got into stripping because she doesn&#39;t care about money. It&#39;s a great way to make lots of money on your own schedule. Those are my favorite things about the job. There is a lot else that I really like too, though. It&#39;s (usually) a fun environment to work in. You get to drink while you&#39;re at work, and nobody at the strip club doesn&#39;t like to party. If they don&#39;t and were dragged there by their friends, you quickly realize it and stop talking to them. They&#39;re not going to buy a stripper a drink or get a lap dance anyway. They&#39;re too uptight. It&#39;s also fun to play dress up in clothes and make-up that everyone else will only wear on Halloween. Mostly, it&#39;s liberating to admit that womens&#39; bodies are sexy, that we can be proud of them and show them off without having to pretend like we don&#39;t know what we&#39;re doing, and to own our sexuality and use it for our personal gain like men do every day of their lives.</p>
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Stripping is not dehumanizing unless you hate yourself for doing it, even though you&#39;re not doing anything wrong. Some strippers do hate themselves because of how they were brought up or because of how their parents or boyfriends make them feel. But these girls aren&#39;t hurting anybody. The people that make them feel bad are just hanging on to prejudices that only make sense in the context of wanting to keep women down and wanting to keep women from owning their sexuality. Strippers can be total bitches. Anyone can be. A lot of them though, are smart and interesting women, on a road to learning more about themselves than most people ever will, and making a lot of money while they do it!</p>