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The strippers I've known must be different from the ones you folks hang with.
One of my best friends funded her Ph.D. with it - and is now a university professor. Another, a girlfriend from high school, won the Governor General award for her writing while still in high school and published a book on her experiences as a stripper. About ohhhh a hundred years or so ago I once bussed tables in a hotel coffee shop and would chat with the strippers going through the kitchen to the peeler bar - some were the kinds of drug-addicted train-wrecks you would imagine, but some were professional dancers supplementing their artistic careers with a few days a week in the bar, or like my friend the professor, funding their university education.
Guess what? I've known more drug-addicted train-wrecks who weren't strippers.
It's not the job - it's the person. Stripping's just a job. It's show biz. She's an entertainer.