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Empower us, Science! "The first academic research project into lap dancing has found that, rather than being uneducated young women who have been coerced into the industry, one in four dancers has a degree and has been attracted by the money…. The researchers found no evidence of trafficking in the industry, and concluded that career and economic choices were motivations for dancing rather than drug use or coercion." Researchers also determined that 75% of lap dancers actually find you really attractive and funny.
I knew it! Fetch my jacket with patches on the elbows, time to get leery with an educated and economically motivated lady with huge knockers.
Pretty sure there's a "Lap Dancers of Mensa" in Fort Greene. I tried to get a job there, but my ratio was too big.
She can show you her equation she's been working on:
Return on investment = (Increase in tips minus cost of boob job)divided bycost of boob job.
The problem she keeps encountering is if she cons an old dude at the club into paying for the boob job, she can't divide by zero. Perhaps you can help her out.
Believe me, if there's one thing I have experience with, it's math tutoring in hopes of receiving sexual favors.
-slowly removes sliderule from protective leather case-
Oh, so that is a sliderule in your pocket.
Lap dancers and the Pittsburgh Pirates: two signs our economy is fucked up.
speaking of "how the internet works", really enjoying the IMVU Blow-Up Doll graphics in the sidebar!
While I'm sure that's the case in some clubs and some situations (namely, the more expensive posh ones,) I highly doubt that's true across the board. What's the sample size here? What type and level of venue did the researchers go to? How hard did they look for girls who have been trafficked?
Also, this: "There's not enough security. I know of girls who have been raped and abused at work. You cannot go to the police as you are a stripper, so there's no legal standing." This is way more important than how many A-levels the dancers have gotten.
/angry feminist rant over.
Your first questions: oddly enough, no one seems to have linked to the original research. Oddly enough.
It really does depend on where you are. In my experience, the closer you are to the coasts or a major urban area, the more educated the strippers. And waiters and baristas and retail employees.
I just get so *headpole* when it's seen as a revelation that we do it for the money. I mean, if I just wanted to piss off my dad, I would have married a brown man.
I'm waiting, as ever, by the phone.
THIS JUST IN: People do jobs for money, even LADY PEOPLE doing SEXY JOBS.
A delightful way to de-abstractify this is to go back and re-read One Jugalette's Story from earlier this week.
I have stripper friends with degrees, and stripper friends without degrees. It's about 50/50 actually, but small, skewed sample size, etc.
I ran into a friend a few days ago who had been stripping for three years and told me she'd recently given it up to become a waitress. Apparently she'd gone from making hundreds of dollars a day to about $30 a day, and realized that she could make more than that without taking her clothes off. So yeah, going strictly by anecdotal evidence, it appears the stripping industry may be feeling the effects of the recession, which may in turn make discussions like this strictly academic.