Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry by Melinda Tankard Reist & Abigail Bray
Author:Melinda Tankard Reist & Abigail Bray
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Pornography, Media Studies, Sociology, Social Science, General
ISBN: 9781876756895
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Published: 2012-03-01T06:35:57+00:00
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1 See also <http://melindatankardreist.com/2011/03/not-just-harmless-fun-how-strip-club-harm-women/>.
Stella
Dancing Pornography
It didn’t take long to learn how to switch it on, to spin around the brass poles that rose from the centre of the many podiums, to gauge the worth of the crowd, to give it just the right amount of energy. Too much and you wouldn’t last the night, too little and you wouldn’t pull the cash. It didn’t take long to learn to copy the narrow definition of sexuality that made money on the floor, to assemble a costume of fuckability, become a real, living, purchasable manifestation of pornography. It took longer to learn to hustle, to leave aside my humanity and erect that false facade of happy whore, to become that simpering shallow shell of a woman we call a stripper: part air hostess, part sex slave. But it happened, and within a few shifts I was no longer a woman, certainly no lady, but one of ‘The Girls’.
The diamond-hard world of glittering disco balls, fluorescent lit podiums, brass poles, booze and the constant thumping bass turned on at 10 am in time to catch the lonely lunch crowd. The regulars, those poor fuckers who we learned to sneer at, to pretend superiority over, to dissemble the reality of their power to purchase us with money earned in a real job in the sunlit world outside. They came to spend their lunch money on a moment’s attention from a purchased pussy, while they ate the free meal provided by the club. Sober, these guys were harder to fleece, but being regulars, they would buy a dance if they didn’t manage to see enough for free to satisfy them. You had to work efficiently to sort the wheat from the chaff and not waste time with the men who were just there for free food, a free look and to pretend they were living inside one of their well worn porn clips.
Twenty dollars for a song’s worth of simulated sex out on the club floor. Fifty dollars for a Fantasy Dance: 3 songs’ worth of private stripping in a seedy room downstairs, choose from nurse, schoolgirl or cheerleader. It sounds like easy money – one dance every half an hour and over the course of a 12-hour shift you’d have made some significant money. Some days I walked out with $800, some days I barely made $80. Most shifts I pulled between $150 and $250. Every day was long. Every day was hard. Every day someone forced me in some way – either licked, bit or poked me, sometimes even penetrated me, held me down, hurt me. Then there was the verbal degradation, by the customers and even ourselves. ‘Come here bitch and dance on this’, ‘oh yeah, let me be your little whore’. They cut in, those words, they get inside you. That internalisation of slut slut slut.
Every day I was afraid that I would lose my job. There was no security; if the house said ‘Go’, you went. Once I gave my
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