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The Ethical Stripper

By: Stacey Clare
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You already know the stereotypes. The strong, independent woman who strips to support her own sumptuous lifestyle choices; the smart, sassy student who strips to pay her way through university; or the savvy immigrant who sends money to her family back home. Or what about the wayward party girl rebelling against her strict upbringing, or the single-mum raising her child with precious little in the way of resources?

In this powerful audiobook, Stacey Clare, a stripper with more than a decade of experience, takes a detailed look at the sex industry - the reality of the work as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes surrounding sex work and stigma. Bringing her personal knowledge of the industry to bear, she offers an unapologetic critique and searing indictment of exploitation and raises the rights of sex workers to the top of the agenda.

The Ethical Stripper rejects notions of victimhood, challenges stigma and shame and unpacks decades of confusion and contradictions. It's about the sex-work community's fight for safety and self-determination, and it challenges you to think twice about every newspaper article, documentary and film you have seen about stripping and sex work.

Think you know about strippers? Think again.

©2022 Stacey Clare (P)2022 W F Howes
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“As educational as it is enlightening.... Read this." (Sara Pascoe)

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A great insight

This was read beautifully. A super engaging book about a topic so often stigmatised. I’d recommend to anyone interested in worker’s rights of any kind, but especially of dancers in the UK.

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An engaging and informative listen with a caveat

I would and do recommend this audio book to others, it's genuinely interesting and educational and I enjoyed it. I do add a caveat that it's best in small chunks as at times it is a bit like reading a textbook. Sometimes it slightly dangerously mixes personal experiences and feelings with facts and uses unnecessary complex language. These personal experiences contribute to the book and help make it palatable but the mix is risky. I get that it's difficult to manage and balance a book like this and overall the author does a good job. However to me at times the author sometimes fails to heed their own advice and stereo types others which is a shame.

I was advised to read the book by a sex worker friend which I think is a true test of its worth and I have told other sex worker and non sex worker friends to read it

slight grip: As a white sis male who works in the sex industry as a sex worker I often get stereotyped myself which is why I mention being careful not to stereotype others. Yes I do and have benefited from white male privilege. However I can honestly say that the vast majority of stereo tyres about male strippers are not true. I am regularly exploited and frequently by women and have no official job or employment protection when I work. I go out of my way to support my female colleagues for example by buying this book and spending lots of my money in the industry and trying to continue to educating myself, and others it's actually part of the reason I do it, as well as loving it. At some points I felt alienated by the book. There is a long and slightly unnecessary caveat at the start of the book where the author basically apologizes for not being able to represent everyone. I understand why they did this because of the woke world we live in where cancel culture in rife. However I think the book could have even better served all the people it wants to inform or support by being careful to identify what was their experiences and feelings and what are the status quo of facts about working in the industry. I know that no matter what you do someone will always take issue and I'm not trying to be that person as i enjoyed the book and recommend it.

when I say about mixing facts with experiences I am not saying the facts are wrong or that the experience are not honest but jumping between them where experiences are one sided or one person's can lead to people reading taking away bias views of events as facts. I also get the flag pole logic of this book and hope it does well.

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