The psychological cost of stripping...
pitts1
Florida
Friday, September 14, 2018 5:18 PM
Apologize for length - Came across this old blog (link below). I know many strippers have issues (some more than others), but what caught my attention was the comments from strippers themselves basically stating stripping completely fucked up and destroyed their lives - repeating themes included a complete destruction of their “soul”, an inability to maintain “normal” or healthy relationships, an inability to quit the profession because of the money and also the constant battle of lies to keep separate their “non-stripper” and “stripper” lives with family and others.
Below are just a few of the many comments – do you think these comments truly represent the norm for most strippers? Do you really think your club favs feel this way inside – maybe they hide it, maybe they don’t?
I do feel bad for some of them and after all it is their choice to strip – or is it? As one stripper commented, once you start, it’s all over and you are fucked up and hooked forever, it’s just part of the psychological cost of stripping…
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“I danced for 10 years and the day I walked away I was so proud that I was no longer an erectional engineer. I have been screwed up since the last few years of doing it. I have social anxiety, I’m narcissistic, controlling, paranoid, depressed, suicidal, and completely out of touch with reality. I think that if I’m never gawked upon by men I have no self-worth. I have been out of the industry for 6 years, thankfully. I was never a drug abuser but experimented yes. I did become a heavy drinker in the last 2 years so I lost my eye on that ball. Made nothing but a bar tab. I trust not men nor women and I cant have a stable normal relationship because I think my partner is always sleeping with someone. Its a mess.I have always loved psychology and I’m currently on my way to finishing my masters degree in clinical psych. I am not healed,. I’m far from it. However, I am not in denial of the person I became. I do remember how I was before. This is all I can say for the young women in the field who do this long term… Everything you make now you will pay for later in shrink bills. Sooner or later it does get you.”
“After being a dancer for 10 years, I go to therapy once a week. I survived a suicide attempt four years ago. I come from a good background and have a great relationship with my father. I came home from Portland a year ago and have socially isolated myself ever since. I feel as if my dancer ” persona” was the coping mechanism I had to use to justify working in those conditions. At first I felt “empowered” when I started dancing. The money was great, I could provide well for my 2 children, and I felt I had the freedom all these girls think they have. Flash forward 10 years- I haven’t been in a healthy relationship for 4 years, I have struggled financially, socially, and most of all emotionally. The hardest part is learning how to live again. I never felt so powerless. It has been a complete spiritual journey. I’m not even religious. I don’t think it is a coincidence or an accident that I ended up there. I guess it was part of the plan. There were a lot of things I learned, good and bad. I had some of the best times of my life. I traveled, met interesting people, made tons of money but yet I came back to reality a broken woman. It was almost like I let the dancer persona become me. I am a very logical, intuitive, and intelligent woman but as hard as I tried not to let that world get to me, it did. It was like a demon trying to destroy me. I will never look back at my life with regret, but ultimately the emotional cost was far too much than I could afford. I struggled with it long before I even left the club. It was almost like spiritual warfare going on inside my soul.”
“Strippers love money_ that’s true and some make a lot more money than you think… But stripping is a scar on your SOUL. Basically crime bosses run the show. In other words there aint no union. Can be fired at any moment. You lose your sense of reality…. You often see the absolute worst in men..it makes you numb… Your heArt breaks daily, you beg ugly otherwise laxkluster men for attentuon and approval MAJOR mind FUCK… Then you see girls whoring girls, snorting, shooting, having backstage sex… It destroys your morality and bsense of self. (The prettier you are the uglier you feel. STRIPPERS HAVE LOW SELF ESTEEM “managers” “djs” security pursue you sexually.. You are objectified… You are DEPRESSED about the STIGMA…the whole “secret cob” only reinforces feelings of self hatred. BY the time you finish you have a drinking or drug problem, HEP C or STDs NO MONET SAVED and serious mental trauma… No resume for the last 4 years all things said at least you weren’t one of the many who are raped, murdered, pimped sex enslaved… Everyones incorrect… Stripping is MORE traumatic than it seems and strippers are LYING when they say anything. You will never be fully recovered.”
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