On average, my guess is only 40% of the time when talking about school. In my area, my guess would only be 10% of the time since I know of no good reason for strippers to lie about it.
Who cares? It's nothing. It meaningless small talk. What *matters* is the answer to "spit or swallow?" All else is chit-chat, killing time until the meat of the conversation rolls around.
Lots of dancers who say that have had some school or intend to go back etc... but probably 33% are actually probably in school at the moment. People in general are like that but with strippers it is magnified 10x over because they tend to have much more flighty personalities than normal.
This can mean so many things... Taking 1 class at a community college, took 1 class at a community college last semester, planning to take 1 class at a community college, looked at a pamphlet for a community college...
I'd say about 50% of the time that's a lie. Some plan on going back to school and that stripper money is too good to them and they look up one day and their 26.
The only person who can give a reliable answer to this question is somebody who has gotten to know a statistically significant representative sample of the population "strippers" well enough to be able to factually verify the school enrollment, or lack thereof, of each individual stripper in the sample. This individual would also have to remember each time the stripper claimed to go to school, then determine the number of lies, divide by the number of claims, and multiply by 100%.
This sample would need to be at least 100 girls randomly distributed throughout the US.
"I'm in school" is not a lie. It's stripper speak. It means "I'm thinking about maybe going to school some day but I'll probably never get around to it."
DS III said this to me the first night we met and it turns out that's exactly what she meant. She does not see it as any sort of lie.
@larryfisherman, I think you fail to grasp the concept of of the distinct language of strippertalkese. Your question is an ideal example. When a stripper says, "I'm in school," she generally means that she is in the process is "schooling" you on the finer points of separating you from a significant portion of your cash.
That, however, is not always the case. Strippertalkese is a fluid and quite flexible language. "I'm in school," can also mean that she goes to special classes with her eldest child, sponsored by the state's child protective services, for supervised visitation and credits toward eventual unsupervised visitation. Finally, in Strippertalkese the phrase, "I'm in school" can refer to actual classroom experience anytime in the past 36 months (another variable), including college credit courses and traffic safety (in lieu of a speeding ticket).
Depends on the club... Clubs in college towns will have a decent number of girls who attend the local university or even community college.
At the club I work at now, there are plenty of girls who go to school. There are a couple I know of who went to school in Chicago and now go someplace here, one who just finished her nursing degree, one who quit a few months ago to attend grad school, and several who already have degrees.
I mean, honestly, if you care, you can start asking about major and what classes she's taking. That's when I often find out they are "taking some time off".
Also remember that sometimes the "in school" line is a cover to family and acquaintances who don't know they dance. It's not that unusual for a 22 year old to have no "real" job and still be in school. And plenty of unmotivated non strippers that age overstate their educational arc.
I've wondered if the hottest ones who give the lowest mileage are the ones who are telling the truth. They can come in, get tipped on stage, give one or two mechanical dances to a variety of customers over a six-hour period and go home with a couple hundred of dollars. Do that each Friday and Saturday a month and you pay for your semester at a decent public college in one month.
The 10's can get anything they want from any frat boy outside the club, why risk it with those of us who have to go to clubs?
I can't say it's entirely wrong, because at the Sport Clips I go to, there is a girl there who I specifically remember buying lap dances from and no doubt she probably said she was going to school. Granted it was hairstyling school, but it was a school. But for many, the only school they are going to is the School of Hard Knocks.
I know of at least six who are actually going to university, including two currently going to VCU and dance at 1320 in Springfield, and a couple going to University of Maryland.
One of my faves is in school currently. We have talked about her classes and tests she had coming up. As a matter of fact many of the girls I see regularly do go to school or have a degree of some sort. One had a masters degree.
Some have been in Nursing School, another had run away from home at the age of 13 and since earned a Masters Degree and had been teaching US History in Pennsylvania, before she relocated the Santa Clara County California. Ran into her once in our public library too. Another I helped study for her US History course, when I visited the Pink Poodle on a Good Friday, and things were kinda slow.
If you know people well enough and are straight with them, they are usually straight with you.
Also, stripping is a good job for girls going to school as the hours are flexible and the pay is high.
BUT: Where I am at, the clubs are very soft core, zero touching, so this may make it more likely that one would find bona fide students.
In my experience its more of an exaggeration or simple lack of perspective. In other words, the definition of school varies widely. I know a stripper who attended a 2-week training for a call center job, and for a month before and three months after she was constantly spouting off about how "classes start next week" or "I just finished school." That's a rather extreme example, but you could replace it with hairstylist or any one of those for-profit "universities" that basically rob those girls.
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As long as she doesn't dodge the question about the "what are [her] rules for a dance" I'm ok with that.
This sample would need to be at least 100 girls randomly distributed throughout the US.
No TUSCL'er can answer this question reliably.
Are we counting beauty school lol? That seems to be a answer I hear a lot from dancers.
DS III said this to me the first night we met and it turns out that's exactly what she meant. She does not see it as any sort of lie.
That, however, is not always the case. Strippertalkese is a fluid and quite flexible language. "I'm in school," can also mean that she goes to special classes with her eldest child, sponsored by the state's child protective services, for supervised visitation and credits toward eventual unsupervised visitation. Finally, in Strippertalkese the phrase, "I'm in school" can refer to actual classroom experience anytime in the past 36 months (another variable), including college credit courses and traffic safety (in lieu of a speeding ticket).
At the club I work at now, there are plenty of girls who go to school. There are a couple I know of who went to school in Chicago and now go someplace here, one who just finished her nursing degree, one who quit a few months ago to attend grad school, and several who already have degrees.
Also remember that sometimes the "in school" line is a cover to family and acquaintances who don't know they dance. It's not that unusual for a 22 year old to have no "real" job and still be in school. And plenty of unmotivated non strippers that age overstate their educational arc.
In some exchanges I don't think there are many lies, where as others are all lies.
SJG
The 10's can get anything they want from any frat boy outside the club, why risk it with those of us who have to go to clubs?
If you know people well enough and are straight with them, they are usually straight with you.
Also, stripping is a good job for girls going to school as the hours are flexible and the pay is high.
BUT: Where I am at, the clubs are very soft core, zero touching, so this may make it more likely that one would find bona fide students.
SJG