http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/12/7730301-lawyer-turns-topless-dancer-to-pay-the-bills "When Carla graduated 10 years ago, she thought her law degree would be a permanent ticket to a high-paying job. But instead of selling her mind, Carla is selling her body. After student loans, debt, a layoff and unemployment battered her bank account, she now finds herself in an almost unbelievable position – dancing in a topless bar. "Did I ever think I’d be taking my top off for rent money? No. I was in my mid-30s and had never danced before," said Carla, who asked that we use her stage name and withhold her identity and some personal details. "As a little girl, I never thought to myself, 'I just want to grow up and be a stripper,’ or, ‘All I ever wanted to do in life is climb in the lap of sweaty stranger and take my top off.' "But, with our economy the way it is, especially in smaller cities ... you strip or you starve," she said." I have to admit, I like her attitude. There's more: "Sometimes it sucks, it’s degrading and I hate it, but it is necessary right now and I’m glad I have the option of doing it," Carla said. "My parents and a few friends know and they were horrified at first. But now they are proud of me for sucking it up and doing what I have to do." Carla has her limits, as does the topless bar she works in. She stays away from private rooms even though women can make $500 to $1,000 a night there. Local rules allow lap dances – as long as the patrons don’t touch the dancers – and Carla sometimes performs them. The bar doesn't have a full nudity license, and that’s just as well with Carla; she'd need a personal license to work at a place like that and she wants no record of her temporary stint in the dancing business. Anyway, there's more, but it's a sad statement of the times we live in.
Double Standard much???? How come when she strips she's "sucking it up and doing what I have to do" to make in a tough economy but when I strip I get heckled on the street corner and thrown it jail. We need a market which supports male heterosexuality.
Is there a male equivalent of a stripper job? A job that pays well, is always hiring, is found in most towns, is relatively easy, is legal but looked down upon by society.
What's to be surprised about? A hard ass lawyer who's in the business of deciding whose life to destroy today sells her sexual nature, which for most people is gentle and loving but for her is-- Did I mention yet that she's a lawyer? None of you guys have ever been robbed by a lawyer, have you. I can tell you're virgins.
Well, I can relate since these school loans make me consider enlistment in the Army. They even promised me a paid study abroad program in Afghanistan!
Day laborer, maybe. Edit: oops. Didn't see the "pays well" part. I don't think that there's anything wrong with stripping, myself. I haven't been to a strip club in a LONG time (well, I was in one a couple of years ago with a chick (we were going to see her friend dance) but left before we paid to get in), but I think the only reason it's worse than, say, bartending or modeling is because people think it's bad. Men will pay to see attractive naked women (or maybe just the "naked" part) the same way many people will pay to hear funny people or to hear people play music. There shouldn't be the stigma attached to stripping that there is, IMO. Ed O.
Ed, this may be a really stupid question, but I know of an attorney (male) who is also a porn actor. The State Bar makes him inform his clients about his "other" job for whatever reason. Do you think a woman who strips should be required to so inform clients?
Law is a weird occupation because we have convinced the state to give us a monopoly, and so we have responsibilities to the public, the thinking goes. I am not sure why being a porn actor would have to be disclosed to his clients (or the general public) but I would think that if he had to do that, she would have to disclose being a dancer... and I would have to disclose being an Interactive Manager/Producer. **shrug** Ed O.
