"Meet Jade Leather Heat"

That would be my stripper name.

Like clockwork, every time the Bursar’s office is demanding money or threatening to kick us out of our school for being semesters late on tuition payment after my room mate and I pray to the financial gods we always semi-entertain the idea of getting into the lucrative, yet emotionally suicidal business of dancing.

I know I am not the only college-aged female who has joked about this yet still been almost, kinda/sorta in a way dead serious. I personally don’t think I could do it unless maybe a child was involved or I needed an operation that my insurance wasn’t covering – the two extremes – but I can feel any girl who chooses to take that route. Working a minimum-wage gig that you know isn’t going to make a dent in your bills is probably a waste of time and so, if you’re willing to take the risk of the personal damage it could have on your life and substitute your money for your pride then to each his/her own, I guess.

I will never come at a girl’s head for doing what she feels she has to do when it seems all the other options have been exhausted. Loans? Denied – bad credit, bad economy. Grants? Few and far between. Scholarships? If you’ve got ‘em, ride them out. Scholarships should be your backbone so if you have one make sure you keep in good standing. However, for those without scholarships, without money in the family, and without loans and grants, is work-study or part-time retail sales supposed to take its place? I don’t think so.

"As a former call girl, I know plenty of people in the industry, and I recently
spoke to several who have started doing kink work to supplement their incomes,"
Quan writes in The Daily Beast." [Source]

For the record though – as much as becoming a dominatrix may have it’s positives with you only having to work an hour for around $80-$200 and not having to worry about sexual intercourse with the client, like any other job in the sexual entertainment industry there’s going to be an emotional after effect and sometimes it’s just not worth it. I would probably have to do some watered-down version of body/skills-selling like being a call girl or something, which with my luck would end up being the most dangerous one yet because of the one-on-one-not-everyone-knows-where-you-are aspect. Sigh.

Whether it’s stripping or becoming a dominatrix however, college-aged ladies like myself aren’t the only ones considering this form of free lance work. Women with full-time jobs are signing on just to pick up some extra money [maybe for gas?]. Watch out now.