In my last post, an article referred to quotes from a Dr. Mary Anne Layden at U. Penn on the evils of stripping and the out-of-control men who frequent them. Dr. Layden has a Ph.D. in Psychobabble and has published what she feels is a seminal article on this subject which apparently she repeatedly quotes from. The article can be found at:
The title of the article is "If pornography made us healthy, we would be healthy by now." Without going into the logical fallacies in that title, let me just say that I'm surprised this article is free on the Internet. Articles of this extreme weight and accuracy should at the very least cost $20 per 3 minutes of read time.
If you choose to not read the article and I warn you, some of it may make you want to punch your screen because of the disconnect with your own individual experiences at a SC, I've selected some choice quotes from the article regarding the men who frequent SC's:
"Often as adults they reenact their childhood trauma by working as strippers, Playboy models, and prostitutes. The men who, now as customers, physically and visually invade the adult women's bodies, reenact the role of the perpetrator." (I'm confused, are we perpetrators or pawns in this reenactment?)
"Sometimes customers tip the strippers with cocaine." (The dollar bills are only used to snort the tips)
"Despite the fact that it is illegal to touch a stripper, strippers reported that customers grabbed them by the arm (88%), grabbed their breast (73%), or their buttock (91%)." (Watch that arm-grabbing, guys)
"If men would do this to women in public, what would they do to women in private?" (Umm, forget their birthdays?)
And my favorite:
"...some of the strippers claim to feel better about themselves by stripping, This level of denial is typical of untreated survivors and addicts."
So if you feel good about the whole thing, you're obviously in denial. I didn't realize we were so fucked up.

