So how do you feel about strippers.
I have a few thoughts on strippers. For one, I considered it for brief moments here and there, so I understand the interest (and desperation) on some level. I love all things dancing, so the enemy has for sure put that in my head that it would be not only a great way to make money, but also an enjoyable way to make it. It's not terribly difficult, either. Oh, except for eating away at those pesky things like self-respect and love for yourself. Basically, even in my darkest hours I could still see that you'd have to sell yourself extremely short by engaging in that kind of lifestyle... because it is a lifestyle. You don't really walk away from your job immediately after you punch out for the day -- we all know that. So, can you imagine what goes through a strippers mind on a daily basis?
I have seen and heard enough about it to know how damaging it can be to women. I have heard stories from bouncers of how many women need to get high in order to make it through a shift. Doesn't sound as glam. Also, someone else had mentioned how easy it is to make that transition over to prostitution, ugh. YES. That's another way the enemy works; figures you'd settle for living this way, why not try that. It's not so much a step-down from where you are anyway, right? And the money can be addicting, so very addicting. Basically, I see it as a huge trap, but one that women are willing to fall into. Sometimes, in cases where the woman has been abused, they really don't start off on the best foot anyway. Women like that are very vulnerable.
I have actually considered going to strip clubs to talk to the women just like a normal person, but have never done it. It takes a special person to do that and I really wouldn't know where to begin. I had read some articles on strippers and women who work at Hooters. Even while reading these secular works, I was horrified and disgusted. I once read how guys would toss money on the stage just to watch the women scrambling on their hands and knees to pick them up. If that doesn't make you feel anger, I'd have to question how you view women. Honestly, it saddens me that people feel the need to do this and to be caught up in it once in there.
As an aside, I have always found it repulsive to call strips clubs "gentleman's clubs." I don't know of a single gentleman who would be on their client listing.
Do you feel like they are all sinful and in real need of help?
We are all sinners in need of help; every single person, from the church pews to the guy front-center-stage in the congregation to the homeless person on the corner asking for spare change.
How about someone who is in a situation where she can't get another job, and it's stripping or homeless? Does that make it any better in your eyes?
It makes it understandable, but still not right. When people are in such dire straits, they are vulnerable already. I guess that's the time for the piranhas to take advantage. One of the main things for me (and I guess this goes into all other issues of the like) is, if there was no demand, there would be no supply. If you are someone who gets his kicks this way, you are contributing to a dangerous lifestyle for these women. If you have been to Bachelor and Bachelorette parties where stripping has taken place, you have contributed -- and if you still do, you are still contributing even now. I have been to such a party; never again.
How about a stripper doing it to pay her way through college, so that she can get into a job that doesn't require her to strip in the future?
As stated before, the money can get addicting. It doesn't change how damaging it can be to be there.
Do you think a Christian can be a stripper?
Yes.