Stripping a soul-destroying profession?

[james t kirk]

It is what it is.

I have my crosses to bear as well in my profession. We all do in one shape, form or another.

I guess that if one feels that one's job is "soul destroying" than one should choose to leave the job and find another one. I'm a big believer in personal responsibility.

 

[mandrill]

Okay........ She can do my job for a few weeks - divorce and criminal law. We'll see how she feels after that.

Any job will drag you down if you let it get to you. And let's be blunt, the girl in the article is getting her 15 minutes of fame and maybe a fee as well for complaining about how bad getting naked made her feel. It's a standard shtick in mainstream media. They get to attract readers by having pretty girls (with PHOTOS!!!) talk about getting bare and being felt up while at the same time everyone is reassured because it's really not "easy money" and "nice to do".

Most of the strippers I ever met were quite happy to make $500 per night or more. They didn't like getting naked and dealing with customers to earn it. But then most of those girls were of the opinion that they should really get the $$$ without having to work at all. So.............

 

[red]

It is what it is.

I have my crosses to bear as well in my profession. We all do in one shape, form or another.

I guess that if one feels that one's job is "soul destroying" than one should choose to leave the job and find another one. I'm a big believer in personal responsibility.

i agree. try working a burn unit at a kids hospital, or in a cancer ward. or try being a lawyer- talk about soul destroying!

 

[ang]

I think being a parent to a sick child is the most soul destroying job in the world....nuf said

 

[Cycleguy007]

I think being a parent to a sick child is the most soul destroying job in the world....nuf said

In one sense I totally agree... but, (there's always a but isn't there...) that is not really a "job" now is it.

 

[ang]

In one sense I totally agree... but, (there's always a but isn't there...) that is not really a "job" now is it.

WTF?????....you don't think that being a parent is a tough job...one of the hardest jobs in the world IMO..........

 

[Tokyo Heights]

Once a girl joins Adult Industry Business, and definitely starts stripping and offering sexual services even against her will for the sake of other benifits, surely develops a double personality, as i have experienced in my long years of this hobby, mostly all girls who are gems at heart, are over- ruled by their second dorminant personality & their Nicks & at times even over powers their original goodness in them, & finally some have completely destroyed their original self and their genuine careing selves too. So many these girls who has entered this industry as simple plain Janes, have now turned in 420 friendly, & with the change of their life-style they are less humans & have become more like robots, & few have even done their Phd's in Politics, to persue it after their retirement from Adult Industry Lol!

 

[Rockslinger]

It amuses me how a person in the fashion industry can criticize stripping. Half the people in that industry get ahead by sucking cock.

The fashion industry destroys more than souls. Look at the skinny stick thin starving teenage girls high on drugs. Tell me how healthy that is. Once they turn 25, they are then toss aside like garbage.

 

[Rockslinger]

Stripping or escorting is often a job of last resort

Plus, you don't need to spend 4 years in university getting a degree plus 2 years of MBA school to make $100,000 a year.

 

[trm]

I would love for once to read an account of sex work in the media in which there is space for something a little more complex than an experience which is utterly soul-destroying or fantastically empowering.

For most strippers it's just a job that is neither soul destroying nor empowering. If you want to know how they feel about it visit
www.stripperweb.com and click on Forums.

 

[Keebler Elf]

Funny how she didn't quit until the recession hit and she started making a lot less money...

As long as the money was good she was willing to keep dancing.

 

[rhuarc29]

I think being a parent to a sick child is the most soul destroying job in the world....nuf said

Have to agree here. I've seen it first hand and know how the struggles can knock you down and keep kicking, when the good days are long in coming, and when there seems to be no end to the whole thing. These parents have much more of my respect and sympathy than a stripper who doesn't enjoy what she's getting paid outrageously to do.

 

[Jennifer_]

I would love for once to read an account of sex work in the media in which there is space for something a little more complex than an experience which is utterly soul-destroying or fantastically empowering.

...so true

Our work certainly cannot be categorized as black or white... there are many many shades of grey - yet media accounts consistently simplify the story. The complexity and psychological motivations and effects for both provider and client fascinate me.

 

[Dewalt]

This is just typical drivel written from the angle of "poor me" by a girl who is cashing in. If it was so soul crushing she would have left after a week but she didn't. She kept on doing it while the money was great, then she whines about it afterwards.

Wanna talk about soul crushing? Ask the miners in West Virginia who were buried alive. We all make choices and for a person to whine about a job that paid them very well just makes you a suck. Sort of like Kurt Cobain - he hated the corporate industry but he still cashed the cheques they sent him.

Hypocritical people make me sick.

 

[Brill]

Getting naked for strangers is something you get used to, even fucking people you don't know can become routine.
I think having your life a large secret from your friends and family could be more difficult, not being able to date a regular guy as easily can affect you too. You learn to compartmentalize, your job changes who you are.

But "soul destroying" is a bit much.

 

[Blue-Spheroid]

I would love for once to read an account of sex work in the media in which there is space for something a little more complex than an experience which is utterly soul-destroying or fantastically empowering.

Write one. I'd read it.

 

[rhuarc29]

Getting naked for strangers is something you get used to, even fucking people you don't know can become routine.
I think having your life a large secret from your friends and family could be more difficult, not being able to date a regular guy as easily can affect you too. You learn to compartmentalize, your job changes who you are.

But "soul destroying" is a bit much.

There are many difficult jobs that put a strain on personal relationships and your own mentality. But I'm hard pressed to find one that pays so well.

 

[Alexxx99]

Three things:

*The Sun is notorious for its poor reputation in credible articles.
*Of course there's no such thing as easy money, but people sift around sewage for $40 an hour.
*If you don't have the mindset to cope, don't do the dope....

 

[genintoronto]

Write one. I'd read it.

There are actually plenty of interesting and more nuanced accounts of sex work that have been written and published. But of course, those are never the stories we hear about in the media. A prostitute whose job and life is no more and no less complex and nuanced than that of any other worker in our capitalist economy: that shit won't sell newspapers.

 

[rhuarc29]

There are actually plenty of interesting and more nuanced accounts of sex work that have been written and published. But of course, those are never the stories we hear about in the media. A prostitute whose job and life is no more and no less complex and nuanced than that of any other worker in our capitalist economy: that shit won't sell newspapers.

Agree. Most people want to read something that reinforces their own beliefs. Looking at a different viewpoint is just too jarring.