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So if I had to relate my topic to JFK. Of course JFk was known as a "player" and known to having many mistresses. I feel like if strippers related to any president it would have to relate to either the Marilyn Monroe scandal JFK or Bill Clinton, and he's self explanatory.

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Love her, Hate her, Join her, Get her professional help

So I've more or less been focusing just on strippers in my blogs but one thing that isn't addressed is the difference between strippers and porn stars. Is there a difference? I feel that to a degree there is a major difference, but at the end of the day its still something that you choose to do consciously, so can I really judge that and the consequences that you asked for.

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Unrelated

Completely unrelated to my current topics, I can't believe my freshman year of college is basically over. Senior year went by fast, this year went by about ten times faster, experienced so many new things and really grew up this year.

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response

One of my earlier posts I was some what insensitive with some of the ways I I worded things and how I made my first post in general. The response to the post really helped me acknowledge what I way saying effects people and ultimately I realized that I shouldn't change my opinion because of other people I just have to be sensitive to other peoples opinions. 

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Is it constitutional to require strippers to wear pasties and G-strings? In 1991's Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc, the Supreme Court ruled that go-go

Sex appeal and sex culture in the United States is not only expected but now advanced in so many different ways. Obviously the issues there are with it aren't stopping movies to be made about strippers, conventions held about sex lifestyle, and now plays put on about strippers.

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On the other hand

Its always interesting to argue your side of an argument. The side where you feel most passionate about. But to argue your side, you have to no the other side. You have to be able to see things from many angles. So when I did my project on strippers I choose to look at it in the positive light, to choose to see how they can be better treated, how they need to be treated like people, how it truly is just a job. But looking on the side, would I want my sister to strip...No. Would I tell someone "Hey, go strip, its a phenomenal job" Not particularly. There are huge positives, but also some negatives. The job itself is degrading. You are lowering yourself for the pleasure of the average male who pays you for his enjoyment. So no I wouldn't ever tell my little sister to strip. Would probably freak out if I found out she did. But that's because of the economic state that I have grown up in. The porn and sex culture is an industry, somewhere you can make money, and sometimes really good money. So No I would never push or encourage someone to go into that line of business but there are the right circumstances where one can understand why. So on one hand I would never want anyone I know to have to strip or do porn, if i understood why they were going into it, at this point I feel like I could accept it. We do what we have to survive at the end of the day.

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Underage drinking

Fact 1: 48% of alcohol consumed at college that is reported is done by underage drinkers.

Fact 2: More youth in the United States drink alcohol than smoke tobacco or marijuana, making it the drug most used by American young people

Fact 3: Approximately 10.0 million persons ages 12 to 20 (26.3 % of this age group) reported drinking alcohol in the past month

So by these statistics it shows that the laws stopping and making it illegal to drink under 21 is rather ridiculous because its already going on. Not really stopping anyone. The most common response to the drinking argument is I can die for my country but I can't have a drink. Somehow that has never made sense. Personally I haven't met anyone whose first drink was after they turned 21, if they drank they started before. Just financially speaking, if were already going to drink under 21 at least profit off of it.

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Jackie Chan among many others did porn, other stars stripped. Yet today we judge them like every other person, because many of us don't know, but what that change your opinion. Why should it matter what someone did in a past, when they did what they had to survive. Judge people for their actions,not their jobs.

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The Largest Event in the USA Dedicated to Love & Sex

So really there really isn't much going on to raise awareness for strippers. At least in a beneficial front, towards the betterment of how they are treated. Exotica is a porn expo that basically raises awareness for the industry, helps gain the popularity and so fourth. So for a second don't think about it as the dirty, dark industry. Rather just an industry. To them this is their major convention. To them this is where they build awareness so that they can continue to put food on the table and maintain a household.

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Unit 1 Personal Context

So for the first unit of class, everything we did circulated around who we are, and getting that into our writing. Creating our social context. I remember trying to figure out how to incorporate who I am in my writing but not giving up things that I didn't want to. Staying reserved to a degree. Looking back now, especially doing a project on Strippers I think it puts a lot of things into context. Strippers personal context is never asked. You go to the strip club and the average male only sees someone that satisfy his pleasure and reciprocate it by paying them. And the thing about it is, many people don't think about who they are, the lives that they live. People don't think about their personal context and thus treat them as less than human to a degree. I feel that this is an issue, but there really isn't anyone to blame. The stripper doesn't want you to know them. And you don't really want to think about them possibly as someones daughter, or wife, or whatever they may be. That makes it too difficult, for both sides. I feel now looking back at my personal context and the world we live in that people share things about themselves for many reasons. Sometimes we want to be humanized. Brought to a level. Pitied and made to feel better. And at other times we try to be brick walls. We try to be something that we are not, whether for the benefit or not at the time. When we chose to share that personal context is something that is important to the individual, sometimes its good for someone to know your past, know you. And other times, its better they don't.

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We all have our iconoclastic sides, and the ladies of porn are no different. Watch them #ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion.

I find this kind of interesting, people see strippers and porn stars and something that is a dark place in society that no one really wants to address or acknowledge. I feel that at the end of the day really if you see them just as people, who choose to do what they knowingly, than the treatment of them may increase for the better. Also I found some of these opinions interesting.

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This shows how that overall the issues with sex culture is a social issue, one that is accepted and is being explored in different avenues. 

"The robot apocalypse may just start in a strip club. At the CeBIT expo in Hanover, German software developer Tobit put together a booth that features two pole dancing robots, egged on by a fellow robot DJ with a megaphone for a head. The two ladybots move and twist in time to the music, though the actual performance is surprisingly tame. This isn’t the first time Tobit has brought the robots to the show, but this year featured updated models. "We changed them a little bit to make them more interesting," a Tobit representative told RuptlyTV. "We changed them to get more color, we changed them to get bigger breasts." According to the BBC, you can pick up a bot of your own for $39,500." -Andrew Webster

My first thought when I came across this was “is this real?” Robots are not only working their way through the minimum wage industry, but also apparently the entertainment industry. I cannot wrap my head around this progression of new technology and, in my opinion, is an highlighted example of technology going to far.

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So whats wrong here, the fact that this little girl is growing up around strippers or that her parents are legitimately crazy. I think the answer to this is pretty obvious. By the way this show is, well odd to say the least. My point to my topic, there are a lot more fucked up things in this world then stripping, sometimes we find them in our every day lives. 

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So i feel this message relates perfectly to my topic. For my topic strippers choose their job, they chose to do what they do, no one is forcing it on them, besides for the economic state that they are in. I feel like while some of the stuff, like mentioned above may be inappropriate, I feel like they still have a right to do what they want to do.

For my outside source I decided to post a picture of my Blarney t-shirt.  Yes, I attended Blarney Blowout.. Did I get arrested? No.  I was one of the students misrepresented by the media because I actually acted responsibly that day.

I know for sure that this piece of media is not already circulating around tumblr because I just took the picture with my phone two minutes ago :P

And while it may be inappropriate, I think the “Keep Calm and Drink On” slogan is pretty clever.  My parents sure loved when I strutted around the house wearing this shirt during spring break…

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Mainstream media has marginalized stripping and sexuality into society. Society views sex culture and stripping as entertainment, thus a lot of the issues that go along with stripping and why people may go into that line of business is overlooked.

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This relates to my post for many reasons. First off, the portrayal of women is done in many ways, but in relating to stereotypes of women, this shows the "perfect women"(photo-shopped for all to see), represents her and women through playboy as only something for the interest of men. When coming to relating to strippers, strippers are only looked at as being people who are sleazy who just take off their clothes, in retrospect, their may be many reason someone strips, but usually its not for the benefit of others.

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Some crazy statistics about stripping. From the pay, to who strips, to even recommending to their friends, these statistics really open the eyes about the industry. Who would of thought that most strippers recommend stripping to friends?