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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.

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“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.