And I know that a couple of my students made this choice
Students Told Stripping Is Career Choice: "School officials in Palo Alto are reconsidering their use of a popular speaker for an annual career day after he advised middle school students that they could earn a good living as strip dancers. William Fried told eighth-graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School that stripping and exotic dancing could be lucrative career moves for girls, offering as much as $250,000 or more per year, depending on their bust size."
In fact, one was a stripper while she was in still in high school. As an emancipated 19-year old the school could do nothing more than ask her not to go telling everyone about it. The other one was just a tramp -- for a while. I hear from several folks that she actually turned herself around and became a responsible adult.
Do I think strippers are bad people? Tramps, whores, and that ilk? No. I'm sure many are in it just for the money. But I do see the environment as being less than healthy for one's social and spiritual well-being. Some are actually smart business people who don't mind the various risks. Or so I hear. I've never had the guts to enter a strip club, but I know quite a few men and women that have.
