she/they/he Former stripper. Still hustling. DMโs for business or SWers. I only talk to men who pay me! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ดVenmo: EmilyPurple Cashtag: $emilybabe
Ptsd is crazy because it makes me extremely calm in an actual emergency situation but disassociate and have heart palpitations for no goddam reason while walking home from the grocery store.
@amandadeibert
Iโm a stripper. A manager at my club lied to my face and told me that there were security cameras in the vip rooms when there wasnโt. I was worried about my safety. I just helped get a law passed in my state that requires panic buttons in the vip rooms and a customer blacklist.
I would love to see sex workers stop trying to justify our choices and our careers with, โIโm paying for schoolโ or โI get to travelโ or โI bought a houseโ. Itโs ok to do sex work to put food on the table. Itโs ok to do sex work to keep a roof over your head and the lights on.
Guys at the strip club are always asking strippers out. If you tell them that youโre not single, they get offended and say, โWho would wanna date a stripper?โ ๐ Literally YOU. Your dumbass was trying to date me 5 minutes ago. I get asked out every damn day.
Everyone needs to calm the fuck down about the anarchists in Seattle who are (checks notes): starting a garden in a public park, creating street art, handing out free food and watching movies.
Yes, some sex workers make โa lotโ of money. But also some of us are supporting a whole family with that income. Some of us can only work occasionally due to chronic illness or mental health issues. Some of us have massive debts. Donโt judge sex workers for not having savings.
When my friends have decided that they wanted to exit sex work, NO ONE has been more supportive then other sex workers. You start your own business? We will buy from you. You need someone to help you study? We will make some flash cards in the strip club locker room.
The first guy I danced for today was an elderly gentleman (likely 70โs) who just wanted to hold me. I basically got paid to hug him. He sighed and said, โThis is so nice. Thank you, beautifulโ. Iโm so sick of hearing how stripping is degrading. ๐
Thereโs a customer that pays two strippers to pretend fight over him. He tells one to pretend sheโs his wife and she just caught him talking to another woman and sheโs mad. This guy is like 75.
Strippers: when you have a shit night and only make $100 do NOT feel bad about yourself. Remember that you are still the badass bitch who made a grand last week on a Tuesday and that itโs not your fault these tricks are just broke or being cheap. Love you all! Keep hustling. ๐๐ฏโโ๏ธ
Fun fact: strippers in Washington state can end up owing the club hundreds of dollars if we get sick and miss a week of work. This practice is known as โbackrentโ. If you are scheduled for three shifts and you miss all three your back rent will be $420. ($140 house fee x 3 days)
When a sex worker asks for help, other sex workers give cash, no questions asked. Church ladies: โIs this tax deductible? What exactly do you need it for? Can I get a receipt? Can I tell your sad story to all my church friends and then tell them what a good person I am?โ
People act like sex work is a last resort job. Like we do it out of desperation. There are many things I would rather not do for a living. I chose sex work over retail, non profit work, fast food, waitressing and housekeeping at a hotel. All of which I had done in the past.
Strippers/sex workers are really struggling in Seattle. If you live in a city where thereโs not a full blown panic happening yet, please: save money now. Work extra hard now. Stack up some emergency funds while you can. Cut back on non essential spending. Be prepared for time off
When you go to the bar you buy drinks. When you go to a restaurant you buy food. When you go to the casino you gamble. When you go to the strip club you buy lap dances and tip the strippers.
Telling sex workers to โnot panicโ and โjust pivot to a different platformโ isnโt super useful right now. It can take years to build up a following and an income on any given platform. You know what is useful? Sending sex workers money.
If you are at a strip club and you find yourself with some cash in your pocket when itโs time to leave, hand it to the nearest stripper. Never leave a strip club with cash still in your wallet. Itโs bad luck.
If you are a couple going on a hot date to a strip club tonight, please remember: there are two of you, you both should be tipping the stage. You can touch each other, donโt touch the strippers without consent. The strippers donโt want a threesome with you.
Dudes are always saying they would never date a stripper. So, strippers: Who would YOU never date? Iโll start. I would never date a republican, a church goer, an anti vaxer, a cop, anyone under 21, anyone over 10 years my senior or someone who under tips the waitstaff.
Civilians: if you need an example of why internet censorship and FOSTA/SESTA is bad, and you havenโt been paying attention, today strippers, cam performers and sex workers are all desperately scrambling to delete ALL our sexy pics in an attempt to save out twitter accounts.
Me: Iโm a stripper. Customer: But that canโt be your only job. Me: It canโt? Him: Most people have a story like theyโre in school or they have a day job or something. Me: Nope. Stripping pays all my bills. Him: ๐ก
If you go to the strip club and arenโt tipping the strippers or buying dances, please know that everyone in the building from the strippers to the bartender, and the bouncers to the other customers thinks youโre trash. Believe me. We all talk shit about you.
Very tempted to restart my stripper career this summer after I turn 40 just to piss off some 18 year old who will be mad that I am a 40 year old stripper and I STILL make more money then them. ๐
The practice of โback rentโ at strip clubs should be illegal. No one should work an 8 hour shift and leave owing money to the club because it was a slow night and they couldnโt make their house fee.
I would love to see strip clubs requiring the customers to wear masks when they reopen. For our protection but also, imagine the amount of bad breath, licking and biting that will be prevented. Ideally all strip clubs would hand out masks at the door and require them for entry.
It makes people really uncomfortable when I tell them that I love my job. Not just civilians. Strippers have expressed to me that I should hate my job. Customers have expressed to me that I should hate my job. Itโs socially unacceptable to love being a sex worker.
Today I tipped my hair stylist in all ones and we joked about how he was going to use those ones to tip his masseuse and Uber driver and pizza guy and eventually the ones would make it back to the strip club through an endless cycle of service industry folks tipping each other.
A customer got a 30 minute vip room with me and tried to slurp on my boob. I just looked him in the eyes and said, โBe careful, thereโs rat poison on my titsโ and OH MY GOD it fucking worked. He didnโt try to put his mouth on me for the rest of our time together. NEW STRATEGY. ๐
Thinking about the time I didnโt want to interrupt a strippers champagne room to tell her that her pizza was delivered and she said, โYou should have just come back there and told me. Weโre just playing Words With Friends on our phones.โ She had that guy back there for 3 hours.
Men: this is the time of year when your wife wonโt question you spending extra on the credit card because she assumes you are buying her Christmas gifts. So treat yourself to some adult content or lap dances and then make sure you get her that watch she wanted or whatever.
#tips
A customer is complaining about the $25 cover charge at my club. Meanwhile I am paying $170 to the club tonight and tipping the staff more than $25 out of my own money. But please, continue bitching about it, you rich dumbfuck. ๐
Every time I have a tweet that gets out of the safety bubble of sex work twitter, I kind of regret it. The hatred from civilians is real out there. Today I have blocked people for calling me โan aging hookerโ among other things. Sex work is real work. Sex workers are people.
Onlyfans girls: I want to be a stripper! Omg! ๐๐๐ฅบ
*veteran stripper gives free advice about how to have a profitable and long lasting career*
Onlyfans girls: Shut up you old HAG! Youโre just jealous of me. ๐ก
โHow can I be a sugar baby without giving up any sugar?โ โHow can I be a stripper but not give lap dances or get naked?โ Girl. You canโt. Please shut the fuck up. Sex work is work. Real work.
Itโs crazy to me that some people think of strip club customers as โpervertsโ. I donโt see my customers as perverts. I see them as human beings with needs and desires that all humans have. Everyone wants to be touched. Everyone needs to feel sensual and sexual sometimes.
Men do this thing and itโs so adorable and endearing, itโs called โpaying meโ and I honestly find them 10 times more attractive when they do it.
Many strippers/sex workers do not have a lot of money saved up for emergencies and/or do not have a credit card for emergencies. It is a privilege to be able to โjust stay homeโ. Some of us have to work. Now is a really good time to show support for sex workers by paying us.
Iโm 99% sure that my nail lady used to be a sex worker. She has the biggest fake boobs I have ever seen on a Vietnamese lady & she hustles like a stripper. She texts me โI miss youโ when I havenโt been in for a bit. I think she stacked her๐ฐ& bought herself a nail salon. ๐๐ป๐ฏโโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ป
If your partner is a sex worker of any kind, one of the simplest ways to show your love and support is to buy us snacks. I always come home from work starving because Iโm being physically active and Iโm so focused on making money that I sometimes forget to eat. Raiding fridge now
Woman I just danced for: Can I kiss you? Me: No. Her: Ok, I respect you. Iโm not going to touch you unless you tell me to. (SEE GUYS! ITโS NOT THAT HARD! Not only did she ask for consent first, she respected my boundaries even though she was horny and she still tipped me.)
Itโs funny how all of my regulars claim to want to marry me and take care of me but I havenโt heard a peep from any of them since the club closed. ๐ Pay a bill sir.
Strippers: it is illegal for the club to take your tips. They can only collect your house fees from your dances or vip rooms. Tips are yours to keep. That is a federal law.
Problems people think strippers have: trying to buy $50 worth of groceries with all ones. Problems strippers actually have: trying to buy a pack of gum at the gas station and they wonโt let you break one of your $100โs.
Iโve seen some civilians getting unhinged about sex workers calling them civilians. Um, we also call you squares. Is that better? ๐๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
A couple years back I was talking to Washington state legislators about why strippers need panic buttons in the vip rooms and as clubs are reopening in Washington state strippers are reporting back that theyโve installed the panic buttons and itโs so rad. We made law.
One of the fun games I play at work is pretending I canโt hear when customers ask stupid questions. I keep saying, โWhat?โ until the guy is literally shouting, โCAN I TAKE MY PANTS OFF?!โ at full volume and everyone is turning around and staring at him. ๐คฃ๐๐๐
@mopykav
My ex had such an anxious attachment style that it made me the avoidant in the relationship. Iโm usually pretty securely attached but when someone gets too clingy or needy it pushes me to the avoidant end of the spectrum. So happy that Iโm out of that dynamic now.
Pro tip: if you dress like a complete slob most of the time in oversized hoodies and yoga pants, then people will be even more impressed by how hot you are naked. This is my strategy anyway.
Been getting some people asking for advice about becoming a stripper. My advice: DONโT. This is literally the worst year in the history of stripping to start your stripper career. Normally I try to help and encourage people that they can do it. Not this year. Remarkably bad idea.
By the time the strip clubs reopen a lot of strippers will have figured out other income sources. The clubs are going to find themselves short on strippers. IF they reopen that is... I have doubts that some will stay in business.
Dear stripper friends: if you are making any kind of income right now, even unemployment income or onlyfans, I strongly advise you to save it. Clubs in other states have reopened, only to be shut back down a few weeks later. Nothing is certain right now. Save everything you can.
Met a civilian yesterday who said that she supports sex workers and then looked me in the eye and just said, โRed umbrellaโ like it was a secret code word or something. Anyways, I love her.
Customers that have real money know what they want and donโt have to be convinced to spend. Itโs broke clients who want you to โtalk them into itโ. Donโt waste time on that. He only has $20 and heโs going to want the most for it. Big spenders wonโt waste your time talking.
The BMI index says that I am overweight. Iโm not saying itโs wrong but as a woman who has always been short and curvy, I feel like Iโm pretty fit despite having a little extra padding.
Omg. Update: he ended up spending $500 on me. It worked! What a sweetheart. He said, โI hope this means you can go home early and enjoy the rest of your night. You deserve it.โ He didnโt even ask me to hang out with him after. So sweet.
Customer: How late are you working tonight? Me: Idk. Until I make $500. Him: So thatโs it? You just make $500 and then you go home? Me: Yeah.... ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ *we stare at each other in silence for the rest of the dance* Him: You can keep dancing, I want another one.
How come men at the strip club always want to take me out to dinner or coffee? If youโre going to try and take a stripper out, it better be to Nordstrom so you can buy me something nice. For real. I eat dinner at 3am in the bathtub.
Strippers in the dressing room are discussing the club regulars we miss and itโs honestly so sweet and wholesome. Itโs pretty common to actually like and care about our clients. As much as we complain about the bad customers, we all have favorite customers.
Everyone is talking about how we shouldnโt legislate what people do with their own bodies right now. Yes. Now apply that to sex work and drug use as well. Sex workers and drug users have our bodily autonomy legislated all the time and we donโt hear a peep from yโall about it. ๐
If you are GENUINELY concerned about the well being of sex workers during the Covid-19 hysteria, then send us some money. If you feel weird about giving money to sex workers directly then I question the motives behind your โconcernโ.
How many businesses will suffer if sex workers are unable to make income in the next few weeks/months? I wonder what percentage of bars, restaurants, nail salons, estheticians, hair salons, tanning salons, can and Uber drivers make a large portion of their profits from us.
@B20e
@SeattlePD
I have cellphone camera footage of a friend asking spd officers to put a mask on while they interacted with members of the public and they refused. This doesnโt surprise me at all. I would speculate that they enjoy endangering the public.
Fuck Instagram. Courtney Love posted her areoles this week, but I had two accounts deleted for no goddamn reason. I didnโt post nudity or anything. Just had stripper shoes on and club lighting. Seriously, my shit was tame. I didnโt even use stripper hashtags. Nothing.
I fondly recall one of my strip club customers, a Mexican man who spent hours paying me to teach him English words. He would point to something and say โcomo?โ and then repeat back whatever I told him. He also ordered me pizza when I told him I needed a break. I hope heโs ok
Iโm really struggling to find it within myself to apply for jobs knowing that I will have to work 40 hours for what I could easily make in one night as a stripper. Minimum wage is bullshit.
Thinking about the weirdest gifts that strip club customers have given me. A wealthy man in his 50โs printed out the complete works of Emily Dickinson on his computer printer and brought it to me as a loose leaf ream. He didnโt even put it in a binder. What compelled him?!?! ๐
A swer friend told me a story recently about a bikini barista who got tipped in fresh caught fish. I have also been tipped in fish and this seems like a Pacific Northwest specific phenomenon. Sex workers only: have you been tipped in fresh fish? Where are you from?
This morning I woke up to find a cam girl had sent me a gift in my cash app. Another cam girl direct messaged me to ask if I knew any strippers who need money. This is what mutual aid and sex worker solidarity looks like. Cam girls helping other sex workers I love you all! โฅ๏ธ๐ญโฅ๏ธ
Guys follow me for the work selfies and then unfollow when I mostly post about vaccines, sex workers rights and horror movies. Feminists follow me for the sex work organizing work and then unfollow when they see a picture of my boobs. ๐๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
I love working Black Friday at my club. Husbands drop their wives off at Nordstrom to shop and come into the strip club looking at their watch. โI got 45 minutes to get dances before I gotta meet my wife at Pike Place Market, letโs go.โ ๐ค๐ค
I told him to go back to his buddy & say that I put my boobs in his face and gave him a naughty dance, so that they would feel like they accomplished their mission as his bachelor party.
#consentisforeveryone
Iโm shocked by the number of USA strippers who still donโt know that they qualify for unemployment. Under the emergency federal guidelines independent contractors qualify for pua (pandemic unemployment assistance). Strippers should apply on their stateโs unemployment website.
Stripping has made me so desensitized to flirting that I donโt know when someone likes me. A stripper can sit in my lap and play with my boobs and I just think, โSheโs friendlyโ. I never think she has a crush on me.
I am a privileged indoor sex worker. Iโm white passing and my chosen form of sex work (stripping) is mostly legal. Yet I have lost friends to violence because of the stigma and criminalization of our profession. I have experienced violence in the supposed safety of strip clubs.
A lot of people responding to this tweet are describing anxiety and not ptsd. Anxiety is real and valid but itโs not the same thing at all. Ptsd comes from trauma. Anxiety can be part of that, but theyโre not inextricably linked.
Strippers and sex workers ONLY: itโs my birthday and I want to have a virtual party game with you of โNever have I everโ. Post something you have never done and if anyone has done it, they have to respond with a drink emoji. No civilians please. This is a sex worker party.
How to get guys to spend money in the strip club by talking shit. A thread. For some reason guys love it when I joke and make fun of them. You can say mean stuff as long as you smile while you say it. Men do this to each other, so it kind of makes sense.
Guys in the strip club: Youโre so amazing and hot. Where can I meet a girl like you? People I meet literally anywhere else: I would have never guessed you are a stripper! You just donโt seem like the type. YOU GUYS. Strippers are people. Normal people.
Happy Labor Day Sex Workers: drop your cashapp or Venmo in this thread so a civilian who is getting a paid day off can share the bag with you. ๐๐ฐ
Strippers in the dressing room tonight were talking about having big family style dinners if our club closes so no one has to survive on ramen and I just. โฅ๏ธ๐ญ I love my stripper friends so fucking much. I will make you all lasagna or a big pot of chili with cornbread anytime.
Thinking about applying for jobs but also, thinking who would hire me? I havenโt had to wear pants at work for 15 years. I donโt even know how to string a sentence together without dropping a few swear words in for flavor.