Is Being a Sex Worker Worth the Money?
Truth be told, the psychological cost of being a stripper is high.
Throughout my four years of stripping, I filled a rather large stack of notebooks from cover to cover. I documented my income after every single shift for research and tax purposes. I wrote notes about my favorite customers. And I journaled about my regular life and how it intersected with my strip club life because I knew, years down the road, this information would be really valuable to me.
I journaled because I wanted to see the evolution of my self — my business, my sexual, and my emotional self — from the ages of 22–26. These years are a crucial time in any young woman’s life, and to throw the sex industry into the mix of my development as a woman was something I could not overlook.
If you think being a stripper does not come with a psychological cost, especially for a 22-year-old woman, you are sorely mistaken. Now, I speak on behalf of my personal experience, and I don’t speak for every stripper. However, every girl I know who has ever danced full-time for over three years has been affected by this job.
Many women I know have been changed for the better because of the financial success that stripping allows women to quickly achieve. Without training, education, or any preparation, you…
