I heard about her before I met her in this little falling apart club in the middle of nowhere. “Careful, she’s a lesbian,” the local strippers said, and I didn’t bother to mention that I was too. “Careful, her girlfriend is HIV+ and she refuses to believe she can get HIV from oral sex. She… Continue reading Strippers I have loved, v3
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Alaskans I have loved, v1
The first time I met him was my first night back at my favorite titty bar in the whole damn state. “Don’t bother getting out your hustle. I’m furniture around here.†That was the first thing he said to me. I’d heard those kinds of lines from guys all over the country who thought they… Continue reading Alaskans I have loved, v1
These are our rituals.
I have a text inbox full of license plate numbers. “Heading out with AK XYZ123” “John Brown, OR ABC987” “Going fishing with Bob, AK BIGDOG” “Tom, NY ABC456, going to dinner” We shouldn’t meet customers outside of the club, and mostly most of us don’t. It devalues the services we provide inside the club (unless… Continue reading These are our rituals.
Stripping 102: Your First Night
In the long term there’s a lot of stuff you’ll want to know about selling psychology, make-up, outfits, money management, etc. But your first night you might as well just jump in – if you knew that stuff now you wouldn’t really have the schema to integrate it into anyways. For now you just need… Continue reading Stripping 102: Your First Night
stripper drama comes calling
I’ve been here since the begining of June. Seven weeks, maybe eight. Exactly seven times longer than I usually stay someplace, and two or three times longer than I’ve probably been in one place since last summer. It has it’s joys: watching the elder flowers turn to berry, and the roses to hips, my summer… Continue reading stripper drama comes calling
the down side
“Tara!” Angel hissed, grabbing my arm and pulling me towards the bathroom. Her brows knotted together and she nodded her head at the door dramatically. I put my head to the door and could barely hear raised voices through the steady thuds of the heavy metal playing in the club. I pushed the door open… Continue reading the down side
Stripping 101: The Stripper Audition
In an alternate reality a friend of mine who’s new to stripping was going to come up here this summer and we were going to write The Cuntlovin’ Grrrls Guide to Stripping for Profit and Pleasure (if you don’t get the cuntlovin’ reference you need to read Cunt, by Inga Muscelli). It was going to… Continue reading Stripping 101: The Stripper Audition
Stripper forever!
I realize I’ve bitched about a couple customers and maybe been a little negative lately. I really love dancing, and when I bitch about bad customers it’s because they’re so different from the customers I’m accustomed to. I hope no one’s gotten any other impression. I love almost everything about dancing. There’s the practical stuff,… Continue reading Stripper forever!
How Tara got her groove back + why are people assholes?
All summer I’ve been watching people around me making money and I just… haven’t been. There’s this little magical thing that just has to be there for the money to come – people call it sales, closed ended questions, confidence, good make-up, etc, but really it just is what it is. And I’ve been lacking… Continue reading How Tara got her groove back + why are people assholes?
Strippers I have loved, v2
The first time I saw her it was my second night in a club full of barbie dolls. I remember my eyeliner was making my eyes water, and I was trying not to look like I was crying because I was just about to close the sale. I looked up at the stage and there… Continue reading Strippers I have loved, v2