If any of you were desperate enough

[Deleted]

I imagine so. 

I've never been there, so I don't know what I would be willing to do.  But I am a whatever it takes kind of person. 

[angelailovefood]

For every story of a girl who paid her way through college by stripping and is now successful in a winning career, there are 1000 stories of women who stay in the business because the money is just too tempting. They end up worn down and defeated. And I can guarantee that if anyone in my career choice found out I used to be a stripper, I would be chastised.

There are other ways of making money. Hell, even waitresses at strip clubs (who don't take off their clothes) make pretty good cash.

[MWOS]

Aug 16, 2013 20:08:21 GMT -5 angelailovefood said:

For every story of a girl who paid her way through college by stripping and is now successful in a winning career, there are 1000 stories of women who stay in the business because the money is just too tempting. They end up worn down and defeated. And I can guarantee that if anyone in my career choice found out I used to be a stripper, I would be chastised.

There are other ways of making money. Hell, even waitresses at strip clubs (who don't take off their clothes) make pretty good cash.

Totally unlike law, medicine, business...

[MWOS]

fuckin SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

don't even get me started this week

[Bree Van de Kamp]

Aug 16, 2013 20:01:26 GMT -5 papie said:

Aug 16, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Food stamps
Sell your blood/plasma & every possession you own
Soup kitchens
homeless shelters (for meals)
picking up cans on the side of the road
churches
food pantries
begging

There are options out there.

yep

And again there are other jobs. Cleaning houses? Waiting tables? Minimal wage retail?
I really don't buy the "no other choice" option here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Evee needs to make a significant amount of money in a short amount of time, right? I mean, those solutions may work for some people and some situations, but Evee's situation calls for quite a bit of cash rightthefucknow.

[Deleted]

Well of course there are other, and possibly better options. I would strip if I needed to. I would definitely pick that over begging FFS.

[hulley]

I have a friend who was a stripper. She had no family who could help, a small child and an abusive boyfriend. It helped her get out. She did it only long enough to break free. She is now a registered nurse, married with 2 more great kids. It hasn't affected her life negatively at all.

If I had the body (my friend was smokin' hot when she was dancing - I've seen her promo pics), and no other alternative, absolutely I would strip. I would do whatever it took to save my child. I am very fortunate that I have a wealth of other options, though, including both my and my XH's family and friends so I don't foresee this ever being a choice I have to make.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

No. I've seen myself try to dance sexy. I couldn't turn on an 18-year old who downed a bottle of Viagra.

[Deleted]

I'm amused that people are having trouble fathoming being desperate enough to strip. I had to double check the OP to make sure it wasn't asking about resorting to some depraved and illegal act. I'm not all breezy about stripping, but come on.

If only all of the thousands of strippers out there had come to ML first to hear all of our novel suggestions.

[Deleted]

I would. I have no ethical problem with it. But fortunately, my brain is worth far more than my body, so it isn't something I have to consider.

[Deleted]

Aug 16, 2013 20:32:24 GMT -5 05heel said:

I'm amused that people are having trouble fathoming being desperate enough to strip. I had to double check the OP to make sure it wasn't asking about resorting to some depraved and illegal act. I'm not all breezy about stripping, but come on.

If only all of the thousands of strippers out there had come to ML first to hear all of our novel suggestions.

LIKE

Did someone by chance mention Starbucks? I hear you can get health care there too.

[Deleted]

Aug 16, 2013 18:25:11 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Aug 16, 2013 17:48:35 GMT -5 @gypsy said:

I'd probably rather be a high-class call girl as a last resort instead of stripping.

No you don't. They end up in the emergency room for being beaten up by Johns waaaaayyy too frequently (the expensive "high class" ones, not just the street corner ones. I can remember reading up on it back when idiot Spitzer got caught back in the day). They average an ER trip a year, or something. (The number I'm remembering is averaging 4 ER trips a year for abuse by clients, but that sounds high so I rounded down).

You're right.

[zoidberg]

Not at the kind of place that would hire my saggy 35-year-old ass. Yikes.

[Deleted]

Aug 16, 2013 20:33:17 GMT -5 elle said:

Aug 16, 2013 20:32:24 GMT -5 05heel said:

I'm amused that people are having trouble fathoming being desperate enough to strip. I had to double check the OP to make sure it wasn't asking about resorting to some depraved and illegal act. I'm not all breezy about stripping, but come on.

If only all of the thousands of strippers out there had come to ML first to hear all of our novel suggestions.

LIKE

Did someone by chance mention Starbucks? I hear you can get health care there too.

We skipped selling lattes and went straight to begging on the nearest interstate onramp.  I think we're supposed to pick up cans on the way there.   

[LLL]

sure, I suppose if I was desperate enough. I'd probably do a lot of things if I was desperate enough but that doesn't mean it's the first thing that would come to mind.

[justkeepswimming]

It is very likely that people would pay me more to keep my clothes ON.

[Kore]

Aug 16, 2013 20:42:02 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan said:

Aug 16, 2013 20:37:46 GMT -5 05heel said:

We skipped selling lattes and went straight to begging on the nearest interstate onramp.  I think we're supposed to pick up cans on the way there.   

STARBUCKS DOESNT HIRE EVERYONE, YOU KNOW

Neither do strip clubs. Lol.

[Deleted]

Aug 16, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Food stamps
Sell your blood/plasma & every possession you own
Soup kitchens
homeless shelters (for meals)
picking up cans on the side of the road
churches
food pantries
begging

There are options out there.

You're right!  You could also hold your head up high and go to your local public assistance office.  None of the employees there would look down on you and make fun of you on a message board, because that never happens.  

[Kore]

Aug 16, 2013 20:32:24 GMT -5 05heel said:

I'm amused that people are having trouble fathoming being desperate enough to strip. I had to double check the OP to make sure it wasn't asking about resorting to some depraved and illegal act. I'm not all breezy about stripping, but come on.

If only all of the thousands of strippers out there had come to ML first to hear all of our novel suggestions.

I'm amused that so many think making lots of cash stripping is an still option if they were willing to do it. It's much easier for a beautiful 18 year old to make a lot of money stripping than a super desperate/destitute 30-40 y/o with shit starting to sag.

[Booze Raccoon]

I would be offered money to keep my clothes on. And I'm not above it.

[hisno1girl]

Aug 16, 2013 21:24:19 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

Aug 16, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Food stamps
Sell your blood/plasma & every possession you own
Soup kitchens
homeless shelters (for meals)
picking up cans on the side of the road
churches
food pantries
begging

There are options out there.

if i had a decent enough body to dance and especially if i had a small mouth to feed other than my own, i'd strip over resorting to some of these things.  and seriously, even all these things put together won't pay all the bills and provide for safe/healthy childcare while you were out scavenging.

If you'd resort to stripping, then go ahead. It's just something I wouldn't do.

[eb777888]

Aug 16, 2013 20:53:55 GMT -5 05heel said:

Aug 16, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Food stamps
Sell your blood/plasma & every possession you own
Soup kitchens
homeless shelters (for meals)
picking up cans on the side of the road
churches
food pantries
begging

There are options out there.

You're right!  You could also hold your head up high and go to your local public assistance office.  None of the employees there would look down on you and make fun of you on a message board, because that never happens.  

[hisno1girl]

Aug 16, 2013 20:30:17 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Aug 16, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Food stamps
Sell your blood/plasma & every possession you own
Soup kitchens
homeless shelters (for meals)
picking up cans on the side of the road
churches
food pantries
begging

There are options out there.

I don't understand how begging, selling fluids from your body and accepting charity are better options than being gainfully employed in legitimate, though looked down upon, job.

You don't have to understand, stripping just isn't something I would ever do. Ever. (Not that anyone would ever pay to see me naked, but even if I were a hot young 20something).  If Evee wants to strip her way to making whatever amount of money she needs than she should do what she has to do but from the tone in her post it doesn't sound like she wants to strip. She asked if any of us would be desperate enough to resort to that and my answer is no.  She sounds desperate (understandably) and seems like she's looking for another way out of the problem she's in.

[pitterwoo]

If I could draw the line at sex acts, absolutely. I think I could tune out the leering, at least for a while. Kore is right though, I'd have nothing on a pretty 18 yo. Looks like I missed my chance.

[hisno1girl]

Aug 16, 2013 20:53:55 GMT -5 05heel said:

Aug 16, 2013 19:57:04 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Food stamps
Sell your blood/plasma & every possession you own
Soup kitchens
homeless shelters (for meals)
picking up cans on the side of the road
churches
food pantries
begging

There are options out there.

You're right!  You could also hold your head up high and go to your local public assistance office.  None of the employees there would look down on you and make fun of you on a message board, because that never happens.  

Right, and no one would ever look down on you and make fun of you on a message board if you said you were a stripper.

[jenna]

Aug 16, 2013 15:41:31 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

What about waitressing? Like, not at a strip club?

This was my first thought.  I'd go back to waiting tables if I had to bring in some money.  It can be hard work, but the money can be good.

[Kore]

World's most desperate, reluctant stripper. That might just be kinky enough to appeal to a certain set of fetishists.

[TrickyBob]

If I were younger, a bit more care free, and skinny - I'd give it a go.

But I'm not that kind of person and for myself, I would feel terrible knowing what I did for a living. Plus I wouldn't want it coming back on me. So no, I wouldn't do it.

I don't look down on strippers because hey, if you have the balls and the self confidence, go for it.

[speckledfrog]

I did not read this whole thing, but isn't at least one person over on SO a phone sex operator? I wonder how the pay compares.

[papie]

Aug 16, 2013 21:43:52 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Aug 16, 2013 21:42:19 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

You don't have to understand, stripping just isn't something I would ever do. Ever. (Not that anyone would ever pay to see me naked, but even if I were a hot young 20something).  If Evee wants to strip her way to making whatever amount of money she needs than she should do what she has to do but from the tone in her post it doesn't sound like she wants to strip. She asked if any of us would be desperate enough to resort to that and my answer is no.  She sounds desperate (understandably) and seems like she's looking for another way out of the problem she's in.

So, if it was literally between stripping and letting your children starve, no wiggle room whatsoever.. you still wouldn't strip?

I just think it is a ridiculously impossible situation.  I don't think the strippers who make lots of cash do it out of desperation.  They do it because they are hot and want to make lot of easy cash and it isn't against their morals. 

The desperate ones are on drugs and definitely DON'T make lots of money fast doing it.  And they also have to give handjobs in the backroom.