It’s challenging to live the life of a stripper, especially a respectable one. This intimate, erotic, and sensuous work is not for everyone, and offers fulfillment in a variety of ways for every woman who chooses this profession. Within a candid guidebook gleaned from her experience working undercover as a house mother in three Dallas strip clubs and interviews with more than fifteen hundred private dancers over a decade, Ella provides a glimpse into the lives of those who twerk for a living while providing the knowledge and footing for women to succeed in the business. While documenting the stripping industry, the kinds of women who strip, and why women choose this kind of work, Ella shares survival techniques that invite dancers to boost their income, save time, become more independent, and learn behaviors that will prevent them from compromising integrity and values. Straight Talk for Exotic Dancers is a stripper’s roadmap filled with advice, survival tips, solutions to common problems, and lessons from real-life situations that will help any private dancer successfully navigate through the business.

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance examines the social phenomenon of exotic dancing. Presenting a compelling multilevel analysis of dancer interactions, organizational practices, and institutional forces, this book challenges our understanding of sexuality and power. Centering the voices and experiences of exotic dancers, this book explores the relationship between exotic dancing and power at the micro-interactional, meso-organizational, and macro-institutional levels, informing a feminist theory of power that seeks out systems of domination in order to challenge and change them. Through direct interviews and observations collected between 1993 and 2021 from 40 different clubs in the United States, Deshotels and Forsyth demystify the seemingly contrary findings about exotic dancing and power. They show how and why individual dancers can be simultaneously empowered and exploited beyond individual traits, interactions, or settings in the nexus of gender and power in exotic dancing. The book will be useful for scholarly readers in the subject areas of sociology, cultural studies, gender/sexualities studies, sex work, and organizations theory. Written in a clear, accessible manner, this book will also appeal to a general audience interested in understanding the complex interactions of gender, power, feminism, and exotic dance.

This book is about my life when I was an a exotic dancer. I used to dance for about 6 years. I have told my readers my experiences about exotic dancing and gave advice about it along with other topics. My opinion, this is a great book.

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THIS IS A "HOW TO" FIELD MANUAL TO BE A MALE STRIPPER titled – “The Quintessential Guide to Becoming a Male Exotic Dancer”. My book covers everything from music selection, how to put together a costume, selling the fantasy ....after all we do provide a temporary escape from reality for people. Most importantly I place an extreme emphasis on professionalism and customer service. The patrons are our customers and without their business our industry would not exist.

The story starts in 1987, back when the beer in the strip clubs was only $2.85 a bottle and table dances were $5 each. "Memoirs of an Exotic Dancer" is a journey of mistakes made, lessons learned, wisdom gained and growing up in the strip clubs. This true story has friendship and betrayal, seedy clubs and sexy women, heartbreak and happiness, danger and of course dancing! See the human side behind adult entertainment. From table dancing to lap dancing to private dancing at home, "Memoirs of an Exotic Dancer" is an open and honest glimpse of the other side of the stage.