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    prettypithy: As a rule, I'm getting bored with the intelligentsia marketing the exception as the rule in terms of empowered women in the sex trade. Although I have... more »
    Meretrix: I've always maintained that a boyfriend is safer in a strip club than he is at the laundromat. Or the office. Or the happy hour bar. As others have no... more »
    bowleserised: Did she make the point that the number of rapes/sexual assaults in an area increases when a lap dancing club opens? I have the same debates about free... more »
    Grim Reaper of the Forest: Obviously stripping can be a rational choice for someone who doesn't have another way to earn that much money and have the flexible schedule. Just be... more »
    Kali Mama: Does working the drive through line make you morally superior? There are a host of low income / low qualification jobs that are equally soul killing i... more »
    La Chica Lucy: My husband and I just finished watching a special on MSNBC about the sex trafficking of American girls in the U.S., girls who are kidnapped or lured f... more »
    Jessi Ramsey: Does anyone remember that pre-Oscar's interview with Amy Adams? And the interviewer asks her about when she use to work at Hooters and goes " Aren't y... more »
    ninles: I agree with everything in the article, except for the shame aspect. Sadly, these days a lot of these women do not feel the shame that I think they sh... more »
    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: I think we're giving men WAY too much credit here. Men don't get lap dances to buy women. They get lap dances to buy sex. Yes, in the end they ARE... more »
    ritualtheory: LipstickLibrarian raises a point I'm surprised not to have otherwise seen regarding this article. Namely: lap-dancing clubs and their ilk *can* be pl... more »
    chelsea g summers: To employ a Britishism, what a stupid burk. I chose to be a stripper. I chose to strip through the last two years of my undergraduate and then my Mast... more »
    LipstickLibrarian: Sociological ramifications aside, how many women here have received a lap dance at a strip club? It's delightful. more »
    The Harlot Queen Likes The Word Strumpet: Personally, I think straight-out prostitution should be like in the Netherlands (regulated but legal). How does it make sense that getting paid for se... more »
    amowls: I can see taking pleasure in giving your boyfriend/husband/sexman a lapdance, but not in giving total strangers (sometimes GROSS strangers) lap dances... more »
    pamplemousse (nee twinpeaks): I'm all for freedom of choice in terms of employment, but what about when it comes to YOUR boyfriend or husband? I thought I was all open-minded about... more »
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    Beatrix Campbell: "Lap Dancing Exists For Men To Buy Women"