Strip clubs can lead to trauma, addictions
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A therapist writes about the "trauma" caused by strip clubs.
http://www.theindependent.com/opinion/an…
This is one of her findings:
"Upon research, some strip clubs offer either back rooms or VIP rooms where many of the strippers can make extra money by performing private lap dances or oral sex. Many of the girls I read about, reported they did not make enough money without doing the back room duties."
Such therapists want to save girls from the horrible life of the strip club. But what is their alternative? The horrible life of a fast food job where they make only a tenth as much money?
http://www.theindependent.com/opinion/an…
This is one of her findings:
"Upon research, some strip clubs offer either back rooms or VIP rooms where many of the strippers can make extra money by performing private lap dances or oral sex. Many of the girls I read about, reported they did not make enough money without doing the back room duties."
Such therapists want to save girls from the horrible life of the strip club. But what is their alternative? The horrible life of a fast food job where they make only a tenth as much money?
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Basically, some researchers and therapists can't conceive women making a rational economic choice to do extras the same way some of us choose a job we'd enjoy less than our "dream job" but make twice the cash. So they immediately make sex workers a victim in their narrative.
Yeah, a lot of sex workers wouldn't strip if they were upper middle class. But that doesn't automatically make it traumatic.
Really, the advantage of extra strippers over true prostitutes is they can be picker with their clients.
Yes Doctor, I love looking at and touching beautiful, sexy women...
Yes Doctor, I enjoy sex with theses beautiful, sexy women...
Yes Doctor, I pay them money so I don't have to do anything with them after the sex...
Doctor who wrote article: "You're addicted." :)
Strip clubs can lead to trauma, addictions
Posted: Saturday, May 9, 2015 12:15 am
By Jan Rockwell
As a therapist who has been trained as a sex addiction/trauma therapist, I would like to present my views concerning a strip club in the Grand Island area solely from the perspective of a trauma therapist.
I have spent many hours reading testimonials of former sex workers, many who started their sex working career as a stripper. I have come to believe strip clubs exploit wounded women who often have severe trauma in their backgrounds. Many report they turned to prostitution or acting in pornographic movies to supplement their income.
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Upon research, some strip clubs offer either back rooms or VIP rooms where many of the strippers can make extra money by performing private lap dances or oral sex. Many of the girls I read about, reported they did not make enough money without doing the back room duties.
It is very difficult to disconnect emotionally for dancers who perform lap dances or oral sex for money. Many strippers display post traumatic stress disorder symptoms and will often times self-medicate with alcohol or other drugs. It is difficult to numb out being exploited sexually.
Often times, dancing in a strip club, for male only parties is only the beginning of sexual exploitation for young wounded women. Some women in the sex industry develop their own sex addiction as a result of the neuro chemical changes in their brain.
For the gentlemen going to the strip club, we know the brain structure changes with arousal, fantasy and orgasm, which will create a surge of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is the feel-good brain chemical and responsible for addiction. If the gentlemen attending have a predisposition for addiction, and/or family members who may have addictions, they are prime candidates to become sexually addicted.
Many attendees to strip clubs struggle with communication and intimacy with their wives or partners, which can promote a secret life. A secret life also changes the neuro chemistry in the brain.
Research indicates the high possibility of the gentlemen also having some sort of trauma in their background which goes unidentified, setting the man up for many flawed solutions such as addiction. Often sex addiction co-exists with another addiction such as alcohol or drugs, gambling and sexual anorexia. So it is possible the men who go to the strip clubs are also being exploited.
In my work with sex addicts, I often find some sort of trauma for both male and female sex addicts. Recovery from sex addiction requires exposing the trauma, stopping the behavior, and a commitment to rewire the brain through therapy.
The many testimonials I read reported the majority of the girls involved in “male entertainment” suffer from PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues including addictions. All the above also change brain chemistry and requires behavior changes that can take years in order to override the brain chemistry changes caused by addiction, PTSD, depression and anxiety.
For more information, please check out recoveryzone.com, thepinkcross.org, covenanteyes.com; she’ssomebody’s daughter.com.
I share this information to challenge our leaders to really explore the pros and cons of allowing a strip club.
Jan Rockwell is a licensed mental health professional at Prairie Winds Therapy Group in Grand Island.
B. I'm unfamiliar with any research supporting her claims of widespread PTSD among dancers. This disorder, while very real for military vets, has, IMHO, been "hijacked" by therapists struggling to label neuroses.
C. Of course we go to strip clubs to make us feel better! I certainly wouldn't spend a fortune if my dopamine levels didn't increase. Duh.
D. The author states that she often finds male patrons of strip clubs who are there as a result of trauma. Hmmm? Is not getting enough pussy at home traumatic? Is being married to a post-menopausal woman who learned at an early age that sex was "dirty" traumatic? My ATF told me of one of her well heeled customers whose wife, on their wedding night, told him, " I'm never putting that dick in my mouth again." I guess that is traumatic.
E. I know some very successful dancers who offer no extras, who enjoy what they do,, and make very good money working relatively few hours. What exploitation!!
F. There are many dancers in my experience who are relatively uneducated, unskilled, have poor work related behaviors, and yet are making a living wage by being sex workers.
G. The authors conclusions are built upon faulty premises and inconclusive data.
"Many attendees to strip clubs struggle with communication and intimacy with their wives or partners, which can promote a secret life"
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Dr. Penn was the researcher that wrote this article.
Uncanny how this guy knows all about me, my trauma, and the dancers who exploit me.
If that's not an issue for a woman, then dancing for polite appreciative custies I don't think is depressing or annoying. A big line is doing stuff that involves genital contact. It's a combination of a gut level aversion and the fact that it crosses the line into prostitution, which further limits what social circle will accept you. It's painful if a dancer is forced into this by financial need. Another demoralizing thing is degrading/obnoxious treatment by club management and other staff, often including other dancers. There can also be degrading/obnoxious treatment by bad custies. A good club will throw out custies who bother dancers who don't want to dance for them. But it bad custies are still a problem when the dancer feels obliged by financial need to dance for them.
SJG