I am not an expert. But I have read numerous accounts of women who escaped the lifestyle of drugs and prostitution that stripping led them into before that lifestyle killed them. I have seen plenty of accounts of strippers found murdered. I have seen many, many accounts of strippers who died of overdoses.
If these women are friends, what else would you expect them to say? Of course they are going to minimize the immoral nature of what they did if they bring it up. You think it is just about nudity, so that is the line they feed you. You add that to the TV newsies bumping up their ratings with titillating stories of college strippers, and voila, a mythology is born.
BS to the Nth degree.
My friends know that they can tell me the truth no matter what it is.
Maybe, just maybe, there are women out there that show their nude bodies that are NOT prostitutes or drug addicts.
But you wouldn't admit to that if it were staring you in the face, would you?