tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206706.post111568991969396789..comments2023-11-02T04:34:52.381-04:00Comments on Stripping Down: CrawlingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18333121886440155613noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206706.post-1115702832438650102005-05-10T01:27:00.000-04:002005-05-10T01:27:00.000-04:00Hi Sheila, found your blog via Wendy's blog. I use...Hi Sheila, found your blog via Wendy's blog. I used to be a stripper too and I write poetry and I'm a mom. I started a memoir, but I get bored with prose (I write poetry), so I just gave it up and now I'm working on a poetry manuscript based on the stripper theme. <BR/><BR/>Have you read some of the memoirs by former dancers? I have "Strip City"--it's ok, but she mostly worked in no contact clubs. Not sure which type you've worked. When you add contact, it takes the job to a whole new emotional level. The story is also based on her coming back into the game after many years and deciding to do a "tour." <BR/><BR/>It's been difficult for me to process this experience. I've had a hard time feeling anything about it, i feel sort of numb, or like my emotions feel out of proportion. I detach easily. I think it's learned--while you're working it's so important to keep emotions seperate from the job and then you try and make sense of them and you can't. It's been three years out for me and I'm just starting to connect with the first year, what drove me to do it, and that was almost 12 years ago! <BR/><BR/>But I don't regret it at all. If I had to do it all over again, I would. <BR/><BR/>Nice to meet you!<BR/><BR/>jennijennihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15572881547671631396noreply@blogger.com