I WAS ENGAGED TO A STRIPPER... okay it's not like it sounds.. we were engaged and told me she always wanted to try "dancing" and I said **** it, go for it.. I don't care (I really didn't.. better than what she was doing, sitting at home watching jerry springer)
On an average week she would make about 1500 bucks, worked 4, sometimes 5 nights a week. Never on sundays, never on wednesdays becuase itw as amatur night and she hated working that night.
some weeks she would make a little less, every once in a while alot less.. sometimes she would make that in a night.. now that was rarely, but it happened.
I think strippers have a hard time making it in towns where "extra play" is widley available, unless you are in a HUGE city like LA, memphis or Atlanta. For instance, I know strippers in little rock make more on average than stirppers in sarasota, fl, because in sarasota, fl there are more "sensual massage parlors" than strip clubs(literarly, 5 massage bars, 2 strip clubs, one right outside sarasota)... why pay a stripper 200 bucks when I can get an hour long massage for 80 bucks, and get blown for a tip? Whereas in little rock, there is only really one half decent strip club. I have known all of the regular dancers there for about a year now, all of them live pretty comfortably. One has a 900 a month apartment and drives a RX300.. One lives in the same apartment complex and drives a mustang convertable. One has a mercedes C240 (older one, but still a mercedes).. None of these women are making 100 grand a year, but all of them make moret han the average american, some alot more.
Back to my ex. She didn't have to work, and I would personally count her money before she went to bed to make sure she was saving some and not blowing it all... on average, 1500 a week. She was to the point where I could have kicked her out and she wouldn't have missed a beat financially, which is what I wanted (her to be indepentant.. one way or another)
why did she stop? Her mom wanted her to, and she had this big christanty movement and gave it up. I didn't care either way but she tells me if she ever gets real broke she has no problem doing it again for extra money.. yes, it has it downs... long difficult hours, drinking, bad clients, working with skanks, etc, being classifed as a skank, etc... but it has its goods as well... the money, the free drinks, being able to party all the time, meeting new people, dancing itself was a big plus for her...
would I date a girl that is a dancer again? Depends on the girl. Let me put it this way, there isn't a dancer at the nearest strip club I would date now, none of them have their heads on straight, and most of them are skanks. The one I would is just too damn young and too much of a prima for my tastes.