A few weeks ago, I got an email from a young woman from Slovakia. She was thinking about coming to Toronto to study and was considering stripping in order to cover the cost of living in T.O.
Helena wasn’t a newbie, she’d already been dancing for some time in Bratislava, so she was used to the way the system worked there, and it took some effort for me to explain that in Toronto, things are different.
In Bratislava, she said, dancers are paid strictly from the clubs: their shift pay, percentage of …
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A few weeks ago, I got an email from a young woman from Slovakia. She was thinking about coming to Toronto to study and was considering stripping in order to cover the cost of living in T.O.
Helena wasn’t a newbie, she’d already been dancing for some time in Bratislava, so she was used to the way the system worked there, and it took some effort for me to explain that in Toronto, things are different.
In Bratislava, she said, dancers are paid strictly from the clubs: their shift pay, percentage of …
Can you believe it, it’s been almost 5 months since the last time I blogged! I didn’ t mean to disappear for so long (well, technically I haven’t completely disappeared, as I still checked and responded to my email etc).
You see, some time ago, I took a job in Europe (not related to dancing) and departed Canada. Since then, between work, home, travel and family life there has really been very little time to blog or work on that stripping guide I keep promising.
I haven’t danced in almost a year …
Despite it being cold and rainy and anything but spring-like outside, I couldn’t wait and started doing some spring cleaning and sorting everything I’m probably never going to wear again.
Four bags of clothes packed, including one full bag of dancer wear that I’m simply too bored with to wear ever again. (Sidenote: My used streetclothes usually go to Value-Village, but I’ve always had a problem getting rid of my old work clothes- it somehow feels wrong to donate stripper clothes to the poor or sell it to other dancers, yet …
I have a small dilemma. You see, there is an ad that keeps popping up on my Facebook page- an ad that makes me uncomfortable. It’s for a massage parlour in the North part of the GTA, they are hiring young women, and the headline screams ‘$2000+!!!’For about a week now, I’ve been debating whether or not I should report the ad to Facebook and make sure it’s taken down.
First of all promoting sex work (or advertising just about anything to do with sex and pornography) is against Facebook ad …
A few weeks ago, a British paper printed an article that made my day. It claimed that according to a recent study, 25% of UK lap dancers have college or university degrees.
1 in 4! The article made me happy because:
1) I felt I was in good company;
2) I felt that now – at last – strippers were recognized as educated women, rather than pitied as ‘victims’ or dismissed/condemned as women of loose morals;
3) I liked seeing the term ‘stripper’ used as a job title, not a demeaning label.
