this is not a duet

it’s kind of disgusting how i can say “No” to a man when he tries to stroke my coochie during a lap dance, and still he does it again…..it really shows how he has no respect at all

And after you say no and you’re physically pushing their hands away yet they STILL keep trying -.-

I hate guys … At least this job makes me really picky about the ones I choose to date

And how they’re like “why?” And you say “because I said NO and I don’t want it and you need to respect that” and thEY STILL CONTINUE TO PHYSICALLY FIGHT YOU TO TRY TO PUT THEIR HANDS IN YOUR PANTS. I fucking hate men

“Don’t worry I respect you I won’t do anything you don’t want me to” -customer in VIP last night as he kept trying to grope me

And by grope I don’t even mean touch my titties but trying to grab them hard and TWIST THEM!??!!!!?

Oh my god yes. The one who try to touch me and lick my nipples are ALWAYS the ones who pull that “I won’t do anything you don’t like” rule.

And they say “but I gave you $40” or “I gave you $100” it’s like ok? You didn’t give me that money so I would let you touch me there… I’ll wipe my ass with your $40

ugh men are trash it’s disgusting that this happens every damn night

I broke someone’s finger once and he still tried again

that last one…..😰😰😰

The other night I had a guy like this. I moved his hands three times and he goes “am I making you uncomfortable?” I said yes, you are, stop it. He then proceeds to do it AGAIN and I’m like ???? Wtf dude???? And he says “oh I thought you were joking!” Men are gross.

Ugh. Once a guy pulled on my skin too hard when he was grabbing me and I said ow really loudly ams told him that hurt and he laughed in my face and then did it again

I just don’t understand how you can care so little about someone’s personal boundaries or their comfort. 

I know I’ll never ever understand

Stripping definitely helped me learn to feel power and use my voice around men but it also taught me how little men respect women’s voices when they feel entitled to our bodies.

Amber Rose Gives Emotional Speech About Being Slut-Shamed By Kanye & Wiz Khalifa

“Unfortunately, I was extremely slut-shamed. I was called ‘nothing but a stripper.’ [He said] why would he ever be interested in me, I’m just a bald-head stripper from Philly. I was a golddigger; apparently he had to take 30 showers after being with me. That’s what he said.“

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Amber Rose Gives Emotional Speech About Being Slut-Shamed Since Age 14 Including By Kanye & Wiz Khalifa

“Unfortunately, I was extremely slut-shamed. I was called ‘nothing but a stripper.' [He said] why would he ever be interested in me, I’m just a bald-head stripper from Philly. I was a golddigger; apparently he had to take 30 showers after being with me. That’s what he said.“

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How to tell if you live in a misogynistic, heteropatriarchal society? Do people— especially men— shame, denigrate and dehumanize (and rape, abuse, exploit, abduct and even murder) women who are or used be sex-workers, even though they— males— “love” the sex-industry?

One of my favorite quotes about stripping

Lux ATL (via stripperina)

 Laverie Vallee (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was a Sacramento born trapeze artist who possessed strength and a physique most men would be envious of. However, she was most well known for her risqué striptease performances. The act opened with Charmion taking the stage in full Victorian attire. She would then mount the trapeze and proceed to undress to her leotard while performing impressive and strength-dependant stunts. The act was incredibly impressive and provocative for the era. However, the controversy created by her performances did not prevent the formulation of a devoted, and mostly male, fan base. One of her greatest fans was Thomas Edison. As a result of that adoration, on November 11, 1901 Charmion committed a simplified version of her act to film for Edison. The film, simply entitled ‘Trapeze Disrobing Act’ focused more on the erotic aspect of the performance, though a few remarkable feats of strength are featured.

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Ah…I can’t stop staring in awe at her

Charmion, my love **DREAMY SIGH**

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bearded-snorlax:

I’m really disappointed that this is so over sexualized because pole dancing is really cool

okay, so first of all: this example is not “over sexualised” - this is someone who very possibly has never done a day’s worth of stripping in her life performing some moves in a dance studio. She’s very likely to have had a lifetime of dance and gymnastics training behind her and decided to take poledancing classes when it became the new hit craze. She’s learned in a formal class environment.

But poledancing was developed by strippers in a stripclub environment. Many of those strippers also had a lot of dance and gymnastics and cheerleader training behind them and they developed pole moves partly as a way to kill time when the club was quiet. They taught each other in an informal setting and innovated and created for themselves. Without getting paid explicitly to do so.

Their talent at being able to do things like this has never been recognised. Even though the first pole schools were opened by strippers and taught by strippers, it has now been appropriated by hundreds of people who have never done sex work and who have no respect for sex work, who think it is “sad” that poledancing has a history inextricably entwined with sex work, who only view poledancing as a legitimate artform once it becomes detached from its sex work context despite the fact it was conceived and built in a sex work environment by sex workers.

Poledancing is not “overly sexualised”. It IS a sexualised dance/athletic art and rightly so - it belongs to strippers and it is strippers who made it. Its beauty and athleticism and skill doesn’t change because it was used in a sexualised environment to help its practioners make more money (although now it is seen as just for middle-upper class non-sex workers to pay big bucks in a formal class environment to learn to titillate boyfriends and husbands whilst staying appropriately fit!). That’s a part of its history. Sexualised things are not inherently worth less because of their sexual nature. To believe so is just to devalue the hard work of the sex workers who innovated it and that is done more than enough as is.

Poledancing is still cool and amazing and requires great skill and talent to execute even MORE SO when it is sexualised. Just being able to perform it impressively is one thing; being able to make it a fluid part of a character performance (which is what stripping entails) is another. If you can’t appreciate that, you don’t understand it, so STFUwl.

this fucking commentary is perfect

oh my god, the commentary

flawless

flawless commentary is flawlessssss oh and here is one more feminist tidbit I’d like to add (that people who reblog this can totally delete later if it’s too de-railing) but before I even read the post, I was stoked on how the woman on the left is just like “yay go you!!!” to the dancer performing those moves… because you know that if this was a male-gazey movie or tv show, it would be another chance to inject the myth that all women are catty to eachother and competing for male attention. Whenever a woman does something sexy or cool in media, the only women around are allegedly just supposed to roll their eyes and scowl.

omfg I need to see this movie. Not want. NEED.