poledancer83's recent discussion had me wondering or re-wondering (as i prefer to forget this type of thing) what percentage of strippers had a history of sexual abuse. Most of the abuse often happened during their childhood, but sometimes it started or continued into adulthood or near adulthood with their choice of boyfriends and often the resulting dysfunction, although i don't consider early pregnancy necessarily dysfunction but just an unfortunate life long consequence of behavioral decisions. Not the child, itself, mind you, but the resulting difficulties when the mother, a child herself, is nowhere near ready and the child has to grow up in a far from ideal situation.
I remember earlier in the days, it was some huge number like 60-90% of sex workers although i'm not sure how it broke down by industry; i think it was higher for prostitutes and porn stars over strippers, some. or a few, who did it primarily to to pay their way through school. It might be a bit or quite a bit less now, but not that much less because just in the general population, the number is already too high (something like 20-30% of girls and even higher, much higher if you include simple indecent exposure or access to porn as well as sexting in grade school and middle school).
This is definitely one of the darker discussions, like the one about drug use, and probably the girls at SW have a better idea, but they seem to live in a different world (although you argue the same for TUSCL), so really this is probably an unanswerable question. I have never asked a stripper about this type of thing but i remember over ten years ago just one girl randomly telling me that 98%(!) of strippers were molested while i was getting a dance (talk about a buzz kill); that club had way less than 50 girls working that day and i don't think that girl was saying she was the only one of them that didn't go through it. Nowadays, i prefer to be blissfully ignorant, but just speculating, i'm sure it is still an ongoing issue for many of these girls.
Good question @dirkdiggler. I’m not sure if we will get enough information here to know what the actual percentage might be.
Stripping has become a bit more mainstream than in the past, but there’s still a stigma associated with dancing. In the past it was much less acceptable to have been either a service provider or customer in a strip club.
Therefore maybe it’s not on the high end of your estimated range? My logic is pure conjecture and inference. In my view - I’d find the percentage of civilian society that has experienced abuse and add 25% to that - to come up with an estimate of strippers who may have been sexually abused.