While this is true in a 'generalization' sense . . . I was actually surprised at the number of my clients who were squared away people and just did it for fun.
I *think* this has to do with the location of their club or bar and the nature of it (classy VS not so classy).
I had men and women purchase from me and they had colelge degrees, families, certain values and beliefs that seemed to conflict with the very nature of what they were doing. Some did it because they had financial goals they set. Others, sure, had addictions to satisfy. Yet others wanted to just do it and have fun, get the attention.
In all honesty, I've known hundreds, maybe thousands of strippers, and never met one who "just did it for fun".
There were some very conventionally "normal" girls who were putting themselves through college stripping. It was clear they'd go on to have a normal life later, and never, never tell anyone about this. (On the other hand, some of those college girl-strippers were a little wild. There was a whole clique of them that only dated UT football players, and by that I mean they'd pretty much screwed the entire team).
A lot of other chicks were young moms, either single moms or in relationships with assholes who either were or weren't the biological fathers of their children (and by "assholes", I mean didn't work steadily and didn't treat them very well).
And a lot of chicks used drugs or drank to excess.
I'm not saying it
wasn't fun, or that nobody ever
had fun.
I'm just saying, yeah.
I think if you did a study, you'd find a higher percentage of psychologically unstable individuals with messed-up lives working at a strip club than you would working at JC Penney's or something.
There's a lot more I could say, but I'll leave it at that.
Suffice it to say that most strippers are perfectly competent to handle the lives they lead (which is no small feat; I'd challenge any
non-stripper to go work their job for a week and see how well they handle it).
But many are easily tripped up when it comes to dealing with anything outside their sphere of understanding and experience, which is quite a lot of things that normal people routinely do.
And although there might be a few who try dancing for a few weeks or months- just out of curiosity or to make some extra dough- and come out of it entirely unchanged, most people who start it are going to be doing it for years. And they will not be the same afterward, for better or for worse.
They end up different than they would've been if they'd never done it.
On one hand, yeah- it's just a job.
But on the other hand. No. It's not just like any other job.
And people who have done this for any period of time tend to be touched by it, no matter
how stable and mentally healthy they are.
we had a guy marry one. the guy spent the whole deployment wondering what was wrong with his bank; all his money kept dissapearing. then no s--t the guy is getting off the bus from Iraq, she meets him in the parking lot, throws his stuff on the pavement, and then hits him with his own car.