Dancer or stripper?
FONDL
I've recently discovered that I don't use those two terms interchangably. To me a dancer is a girl who happens to be dancing for a variety of reasons - money, fun, laughs, curiousity, her friends dared her to, whatever; but money isn't the only reason and may not be the main one. A stripper is a girl for whom money is clearly the main and maybe the only reason; she takes it seriously, hustles, and at least thinks about mazimizing her income. The dancer thinks of it as a temporary lark that also pays well when she tries, while the stripper thinks of it as her best shot at making a lot of money, more than she could doing something else. Generally but not always the dancer is fairly new at it and probably won't last very long, while the stripper has been doing it for awhile. Dancers who continue doing it for more than a year or two tend to become strippers, though not always, and some beginners become strippers almost immediately. Personally I try to find the dancers and avoid the strippers, which is why I think my views here sometimes differ from the rest of you, who may spend more time with strippers than I do.
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But I do kinda like "laplady." It has a certain ring to it.
And Yoda, aren't I allowed to put tongue in cheek once in awhile? Relax, this one's just for laughs.
Really, I don't see anything replacing "stripper". It's been around for decades. It's straighforward and still perfectly descriptive. (FONDL, "strip" means to undress, as well as strip-tease.) Everybody knows what who it means. And besides, it sounds a hell of a lot more fun than the bland, inoffensive-to-a-fault "dancer" or "entertainer".
Peeler
Dirty Girl
Pink ladies
Crack ho (not drugs, but she said "I sell crack")
Ecdysiast (H.L. Mencken's term)
how about "erotic entertainer"? Or "laplady" - hey I like that one.
"Exotic dancer" refers to eastern ritual dance. The term was appropriated as a euphemism for strippers. I doubt if it still fools anybody.
She said, "Actually, I prefer to be called an exotic dancer."
And I said, "Well, in that case can you send over a stripper, please?"
And she said, "Hey, whatever you want to call me is fine."
FONDL: The only place I've seen a stripper make the distinction you do is on internet message boards, when pinkie-types try to say how superior they are to common strippers, or condescend to the plight of poor "fallen women" for whom stripping supposedly defines their lives. It strikes me as self-congratulatory but meaningless.
Again, going with my quirky definitions, one of the big reasons I prefer getting to know new girls is that once you get to know them as a dancer they will almost always behave that way with you, even when they get to the point that they're strippers with almost everyone else. It takes much longer to get an experienced girl to act that way with you, if ever. In fact I think that's what being a club buddy is all about, she acts like a dancer with you even though she acts like a stripper around most everyone else. That's clearly where Shadowcat is, although he may not agree with my terminology.