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Some interesting accounts

http://katiekind.tumblr.com/

http://chroniclesofpeytonpeony.tumblr.com/

http://stripstripstrip.tumblr.com/page/2

http://www.missgingerlee.com/

http://euphoricinebriation.tumblr.com/

Some interesting accounts, shows how people who strip live normal lives and how they are just as normal as everyone. These accounts show people who have degrees, are in school, and show some of the stereotypes that go around stripping.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?

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Franklin Youngblood is suing the East Neck Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in New York for forcing his grandmother, Bernice, to interact with a male stripper hired by the facility for an activity.

People are stupid. Plain and simple. There is no need for a stripper to be at a nursing home. These people did not want it. This wasn't fair to the residents or the strippers who were both put in a very, very awkward situation. This is just ridiculous 

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Some more blogs to follow

http://fuckyeah-radicalfeminism.tumblr.com/page/2

This is a really interesting blog, its very much about treating women properly and some of her beliefs in the issues that go on today. This blog relates to my topic because it allows for a new perspective on some of the major issues including porn and women rights and stereotypes.

http://rappersdoingnormalshit.com/

This topic very much indirectly relates to my topic. People have lives outside of their work. What you do is not necessarily who you are.

http://antipornographyorg.tumblr.com/

Interesting blog that directs towards my topic. While this is more about how the porn industry is a dead end industry, my issue is more about the stereotypes within the industry. Its an interesting perspective.

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http://guyism.com/lifestyle/commandments-of-the-strip-club.html#1-10-commandments-of-the-strip-club

There are certain rules that are written and are unwritten at how to act at strip clubs. First and foremost remember that the strippers are people too and deserve to be treated with respect. While they may have chosen this lifestyle it doesn't mean that people should treat them like they are below them.