Cube's Depiction Was On-Point

Don't know if you will ever see this post but you are right. I was a stripper for about two and a half years, and the line that best fits the experience was when Diamond said she wasn't the same person she was when she started. I stopped dancing a year after I went back to school. Once I started really doing something positive, I didn't want to be around so much negativity. I have since then graduated with my B.A in criminal justice with a minor in psychology and I am going to pursue my M.S in clinical psychology. The funny thing is I kept in touch with a few of my prior co-workers and they were mainly unsupportive of my college ventures. Once I stopped dancing I never went back, not once, which is a common practice of a lot of the dancers that I know. Most of them will quit and come back over and over again because, to me, they don't have faith that God will provide everything that they need. The funny as well as sad thing is my old manager e-mailed me wanting me to come back and strip at his new club three years after I quit and exactly one week after I graduated from college!! The worst part about that is I'd started bartending and only dancing occasionally the last year or so that I worked for this man, so to offer me a job as a stripper really baffled me. Don't get me wrong, I am not putting down the stripper lifestyle or anyone that chooses to live it. It was just not the best thing for me. I couldn't be happier that I have set a goal and accomplished it.

I can't promise you love....I can't promise you me

"What's really sad is that there are men who were like "Marvin" (the quiet, soft-spoken patron that liasraye always danced for in the movie who followed her home) who don't separate the "fantasy" from the "fact" and think that all the strippers WANT to have sex with then because they are taking their money to dance for them"
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What's 'sad' is how strippers think men who patronize them are nothing but 'worthless losers' (words they choose to use to describe guys). Most of them aren't any better. At least the customers have a REAL job. What would strippers do if those 'losers' quit showing up? They'd be working at the mall or Burger King. It's not like they have degrees or anything, at least most of them don't. Why WOULDN'T a normal guy who's attracted to women NOT want something more than just a lapdance? It's a fine line from both sides. If strippers are so turned off/repulsed at the idea that a GUY would want to sleep with them, then go put in an application for a REAL job. It doesn't take skill to be a stripper, but merely a phat ass and a nice rack, or something of the sort. No one's making them be one. That's why I stopped going years ago. I'd have more fun with my money putting it in a shredder.

Oh man, I have plenty of moments. Up in the DMV there was a whole scene of underground spots that back then you could be in the club with some straight up gangstas and it was all just people doing them. That alone would make an interesting movie because the conventional spots were a bit conservative but these ones were raw, straight up. Like there was one spot in a garage in suburban MD that was run by this dude who looked like Bushwick Bill and if you found a woman all you needed was $$$$ and a minimal amount of game and if the chick liked u, well, you know. It was just like that! I went to some spots in the ATL but they just did not compare to that scene. I was spoiled where I was at. Don't do that anymore; its just not that safe these days, but back then it was awesome.