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Earn $2,000 a night as a boomtown stripper
CNN ^ | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 | Blake Ellis

Posted on 11/02/2011 10:28:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Strippers cash in on lonely oilmen

Forget Vegas. Strippers are discovering they can make ten times as much dancing in the oil boomtown of Williston, N.D.

Thousands of men have come here seeking high-paying jobs working for the oil companies. And, at the end of the day (or four or five days when they're working on a rig), many of them are looking for some female companionship at one of the town's two strip club's, Whispers or Heartbreakers.

Word has gotten out about just how much money can be made dancing in Williston's strip clubs. The money is phenomenal, but the competition is stiff.

Whispers has received applications from exotic dancers in Hawaii, Alaska, even the Czech Republic and Germany, said Melissa Slapnicka, the co-owner of the club. She's been bombarded with so many applications that she only gives each dancer a week to try out. If they don't work out, they don't come back, she said.

"We used to have to beg people to come, and now we have to turn them away because we don't have room for all the people who want to dance," she said. "My best girls would rather dance here than in Vegas, because they make more money here."

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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To: Windflier
I knew a gal who got her college degree that way as well. When I met her, she was Head Nurse...


"...he said Head..."

...at a very respectable medical practice in town. As she told me, once she completed her degree, she walked away from the "work"...

21 posted on 11/03/2011 5:53:07 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JRios1968
once she completed her degree, she walked away from the "work"...

Just proves that some of those girls are smarter than the average bear.

22 posted on 11/03/2011 9:35:29 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Wpin
Whoa! Hold on there hoss. I stated a simple fact — not all strippers are prostitutes. From that, you seem to feel entitled to go off on me — making all sorts of insinuations. Take a deep breath. Take a few.
23 posted on 11/03/2011 11:18:27 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Pinkbell

Some people sell theirs for millions, others for $10. It’s always a bad, bad bargain they will regret later.


25 posted on 11/03/2011 11:50:44 AM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: little jeremiah

I agree. I always wonder about men who support strip clubs and think there is nothing wrong with them, how would they feel if their own sisters, wives, and daughters were to pursue such a “career”.


26 posted on 11/03/2011 4:52:06 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would rather go to Australia. Mining is booming.


27 posted on 11/03/2011 5:00:30 PM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: Windflier

Same here. Dated a girl that stripped while going to college for her Master’s. She became a high school teacher but decided stripping made far more money. She ended up being a highly paid stripper in Vegas for a private firm. No hooking, just stripping.


28 posted on 11/03/2011 5:08:41 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CodeToad
Dated a girl that stripped while going to college for her Master’s. She became a high school teacher but decided stripping made far more money.

Some gals can make $10K a week or more. Hard to resist that sort of earning power as long as it's legal. Ten years of that, and a woman would be set for life.

29 posted on 11/03/2011 5:21:45 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“Whoa! Hold on there hoss. I stated a simple fact — not all strippers are prostitutes. From that, you seem to feel entitled to go off on me — making all sorts of insinuations. Take a deep breath. Take a few.”

Phew...okay thanks, I feel better! Now, understand this...selling ones body can involve sex or simply sexual temptation. Stripping is not an art form...it is decadence and unhealthy for these young women who participate in it. Glorifying stripping in any sense is not a very compassionate thing to do. Now, take a deep breath yourself...open your heart up and contemplate...


30 posted on 11/03/2011 5:43:13 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Pinkbell

“I agree. I always wonder about men who support strip clubs and think there is nothing wrong with them, how would they feel if their own sisters, wives, and daughters were to pursue such a “career”.”

As a recovering alcoholic and former bigtime fan of strip joints I can attest that in my case...once I got sober, I found strip joints as truly scum of the earth types of places. Anyone who says different is truly misguided. They cater on the illesses of young women who for the vast majority have suffered enough abuse growing up to have little self esteem, which is what it takes to be a stripper or a whore.


31 posted on 11/03/2011 5:48:02 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Windflier

Probably tax free income too.


32 posted on 11/03/2011 5:53:39 PM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: Wpin; Carl from Marietta
This side discussion got started when Carl from Marietta mentioned Herpes, in connection with watching strippers. I just pointed out that not all strippers are prostitutes (something others also mentioned). I might have added that you don't generally get an STD from just looking.

I'm not an expert on the subject; but it seems to me that there's some sort of sliding scale, between "art" dancing and flat-out pornographic stripping. Some artistic dancers perform nude. Some strippers (I imagine) are better dancers than others. Some strippers might even be like Demi Moore in Striptease -- just a single mom, working a job to support her kid. (Would Hollywood lie to us?) Of course Demi got hundreds of times more for her performance as a stripper, than any actual stripper makes.
33 posted on 11/03/2011 7:07:49 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Pinkbell

Stripping is really no different from outright prostitution. Selling the sexual use of one’s body is shameful and most women who do this feel great shame and guilt, and in order to continue their life, most become drug addicts.

And the men who so use them are contemptable. I don’t care if they are “upstanding” or “conservative”.


34 posted on 11/03/2011 7:11:48 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“I’m not an expert on the subject; but it seems to me that there’s some sort of sliding scale, between “art” dancing and flat-out pornographic stripping.”

I have been to dozens of strip joints, literally hundreds of times and I can tell you there is not much of a sliding scale...it is a dirty business that helps keep young women trapped in a very demeaning lifestyle. It is not something you would want your daughter to aspire to I am sure.


35 posted on 11/04/2011 12:54:42 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Wpin

I had read a study on young women who are strippers and the horrors of the lifestyle. I was able to dig it up on a Google search:

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/stripc1.htm


36 posted on 11/04/2011 1:09:22 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: little jeremiah

I agree. Check out the study I linked to above.


37 posted on 11/04/2011 1:11:50 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell

I had read a study on young women who are strippers and the horrors of the lifestyle. I was able to dig it up on a Google search:

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/stripc1.htm

Thanks, that may illuminate the subject for us...


38 posted on 11/04/2011 2:24:08 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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