Strip City

There s no business like the sex business or is there In this poignant, bittersweet, sometimes funny account of a stripper s odyssey, the reader is allowed many roles We start innocently enough reading a journal about finding oneself a journey across America to recapture and understand a young woman s history as she prepares for a new life.Along the way, we are alternately voyeurs and witnesses, learning the details and daily grinds of a worker in the sex trade an exotic dancer, on her last cross country tour of the clubs that have been such an important part of her life Well written and powerful, Strip City becomes, about midway through, the journal of a soul It asks why we do what we do, what it means to say one is a feminist, and how to understand with eyes wide open an industry that is both liberating and degrading a job in some ways like many others, yet one ultimately corruptive of our very dreams, nightmares, fears, and desires Strip City is not a tell all, although it tells much It is one woman s attempt to come to terms with her past to glorify the dance and not to victimize, preach, or pass judgment on the dancers or to mystify the work, the audience drawn to it, and most of all the toll on the women themselves It is both painful and funny and cathartic for both writer and reader Most of all, it is a very moral tale, honestly told, deftly written, and exhibiting neither shame nor undue pride an American tale, filled with pop culture images that remind us, over and over again, of the roles a prosperous, bountiful nation has allowed to or forced on women Strip City provides us a dazzling, glitzy, and devastating meditationFall 2001 Selection Download Strip City Author Lily Burana – kino-fada.fr Part of me feels like a traitor to my fellow sex workers for saying there were things about this book I really hated, butof me feels like I d be a traitor if I didn t say that Because what I really hated was the feeling of being judged for being a dirtier kind of sex worker than Lily white Burana From her disgust with peep show girls who worked the booths and did hardcore toy shows, etc to her complaint about her thighs being overworked from regularly squatting hovering over toilet Part of me feels like a traitor to my fellow sex workers for saying there were things about this book I really hated, butof me feels like I d be a traitor if I didn t say that Because what I really hated was the feeling of being judged for being a dirtier kind of sex worker tha...Full disclosure I didn t read this to the end, I lost it around 125 pages in The first 100 pages were completely boring, understandable if the subject matter was accounting or patent law, but this book was about stripping if the author can t make stripping entertaining, why did they ever pick up a pen Seriously I have read manuals on PAINT stripping that areengaging Not surprisingly according to her own account she is a low earning stripper, obviously the author doesn t understand t Full disclosure I didn t read this to the end, I lost it around 125 pages in The first 1... Where do you draw the line, I wonder, between objectification and admiration Is it a matter of manners Intent Money I can pass off a casual leer as maintaining my competitive edge, so I don t need to worry about what anyone thinks of my girl watching Maybe it s a matter of time and place, of when it s appropriate Or maybe it s just a matter of respect, or knowing that there s a complicated girl behind the glassy facade that s caught your eye, one whose wishes and desires may have nothing t Where do you draw the line, I wonder, between objectification and admiration Is it a matter of manners Intent Money I can pass off a casual leer as maintaining my competitive edge, so I don t need to worry about what anyone thinks of my girl watching Maybe it s a matter of time and p...I am a feminist In college, I minored in women s studies, and I ended up taking lots of classes with some very earnest, intelligent women about various women s issues Inevitably in these classes, the sex industry would come up for discussion at some point or another stripping, pornography, prostitution, etc I didn t know what I thought about the subject back then, and I still don t today I m deeply ambivalent about it On the one hand, I agree with the argument that says that all sex in I am a feminist In col...It was so fascinating to read about Lily s journey around the country, the insider bits about how different strip clubs are run, her motivations for becoming a stripper in the first place, and how the experience affected her It s a lotphilosophical than I thought it would be Lily really delves deeply into her own feelings about what she is doing and whether it is damaging to her psyche She also includes interviews with a couple of older women who were or still are in the business, wh...sometimes someone can come along and write an autobiographical book that bends stereotypes in the minds of its readers this is not that book Lily Burana had a great idea to strip her way across america, and documenting her experiences Unfortunaltey she is neither clever enough to covey her story gr...This is supposedly a book about a woman who, after accepting her boyfriend s marriage proposal, decides she must spend a year stripping across America to help make sense of her stripper past and herself Only it quickly becomes clear that instead of leaving her fiance for a year, she takes little, well, what I thought of sarcastically as stripcations, spending a weekend here, three days there, in between long visits with her man at home As a reader, I felt a bit gypped at that point, becaus This is supposedly a book about a woman who, after accepting her boyfriend s marriage proposal, decides she must spend a year stripping across America to help make sense of her stripper past and herself Only it quickly becomes clear that instead of leaving her fiance for a year, she takes little, well, what I thought of sarcastically as stripcations, spending a weekend here, three days there, in between long visits with her man at home As a reader, I felt a bit gypped at that point, because she claims to have done this daring thing get engaged and then leave your fiance for a year while you go explore something about your past wow only she really didn t.From a writer s perspective, I couldn t understand how these quick strip tri...If you don t know anyone in the industry or know anything about it this is probably a good book to read It gives you an insight into stripping from the eye of the stripper and answers questions a lot of people have like how much do those girls really make Another thing I like about it as compared to other writers about sex work Carol Queen comes to mind is that it doesn t gloss over the mixed feelings many strippers have about their work The sex positive community would have you believe t If you don t know anyone in the industry or know anything about it this is probably a good book to read It gives you an insight into stripping from the eye of the stripper and answers questions a lot of people have like how much do those girls really make Another thing I like about it as compared to other writers about sex work Carol Queen comes to mind is that it doesn t gloss over the mixed feelings many strippers have about their work The sex positive community would have you believe that all wome...I can attest to the fact that Lily nails much of what it s like to live as a stripper, from the bravado to the secrecy to the chaos to the empowerment She leaves out some of the trickier subjects, like the fact that dancers often have sex with each other and are bisexual, ...Strip City A Stripper s Farewell Journey Across America is one woman s compelling quest to find closure before getting married.Burana, a former stripper, has decided to mount a huge trip stripping her way across the U.S I really didn t know that much about the stripping industry before reading the book, so it was really interesting to get an inside look at the business.The book dealt, not only w...

• English
• 02 December 2018
Lily Burana
• Paperback
• 328 pages
• 0786886757
• Lily Burana
• Strip City