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Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD

My name is Lux ATL, and I am a mother, wife, business owner, former university instructor, and lifelong stripper. From the halls of academia to the strip club stage, my life as a post-academic feminist sex worker has been filled with unique sociological insight, unforgettable friendships, and a thousand beautiful messes in between. These are my true stories of the highs and lows of an ex-academic and lifelong stripper pole dancing for pay on stages all across the South.
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Oct 12, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Today’s episode is about an incident that someone like me always worries about happening....your student from your English class discovers you naked on stage at the titty bar.   

Has this ever happened to me? The answer is yes, on more than one occasion. Today, I’m going to talk to you about just one of those times.  

People have certain expectations of stripper life and stripper consequences, and they are usually dire. Today, I'd like to play with some of these expectations, and compare them to my reality.  

It’s complex.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Oct 5, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

In this industry, aging is impossible to ignore.   

All these new girls--girls who were 12 years-old, 8 years-old, 2 years-old when you were at the height of your stripper game.  

You look at them--so bright and full and fresh. They have no stretch-marks, perfect tits, happy faces, and no wrinkles.   

You think, that used to be me. The world has changed. You don’t know any of these girls. Then you go to the dressing room and look in the mirror and realize: it isn’t only the world that has changed, it is you, too.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Sep 28, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

One of the things people often ask me is what’s the weirdest shit a customer has asked for. Ironically, I find that question as perversely voyeuristic as any act a customer has asked of me. Still, let me entertain you here with a few examples today.   

This morning I sat out on my porch with a cup of hot tea reflecting back on my stripper life. Trying to think back to some of the weirdest and strangest requests that came my way. It didn’t take too long to think.   

Today’s episode, my friends, is about the requests you don’t get everyday. Today’s episode is about the fetishists.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Sep 21, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Today’s episode is about men being nice to me. Ya’all like that shit? I’ve had a number of requests, lately, that I write about happier topics, so I sat down and made a concerted effort to do just that. Today, you are going to hear about some tales of some dudes warming my heart and shit. But, don’t worry, it’s all couched in the usual tales of despair and woe that keep you coming back for more.  Much love, friends. Enjoy!  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Sep 14, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

After a long absence from stripping—nearly a year--I recently did my first stripping gig: a private bachelor party in a cabin in the woods. What could go wrong?    

Turns out, it was a great fucking experience with a great fucking audience, an experience that reminded me of all the feelings that kept bringing me back—the pleasure that kept drawing me in—the shit that I loved about that life: all of the wonderful things about stripping.   

The weekend this bachelor party occurred, I just so happened to have some of my oldest, bestest girlfriends in town visiting me. I had the great fortune to take my three home girls with me to this bachelor party. They're going to throw their two cents in at the end--so hang around for that.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Sep 7, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Today’s episode is about what they would say about me on the diss track. 

You guys know what a diss track is, right? A diss track is when you are responding to what somebody has said--basically, just talking as much shit as you can about them.   

All the bad shit that you could dredge up about me...I’m going to deliver it on a plate for ya.   

Today’s episode... this is the content of what they could say about me on their diss track.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

Aug 31, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

The PhD gave me an intellectual sophistication that changed everything. I could never be who I am without that education.  

However...the strip club taught me a thing or two, as well.   

Drive. Ambition. Focus. Hustle.   

The strip club made a business woman out of me. The strip club made an independent woman out of me. And so today’s episode--is an homage to that.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Aug 24, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Recently, a friend asked me what I was doing on September, 11th 2001. You know what? I know exactly what I was doing.   

This story is about that day, and the day that led up to it. But really, this story is about all of the hopes and dreams, the love and happiness that think will always be there—but that will,  in an untold instant, be gone.  

But...isn’t that moment before the twist just the sweetest thing in life?  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Aug 17, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Today’s story is about a man being nice to me. Today’s story is about PTSD….The kind of PTSD you get from moving through life  as a woman. The kind of PTSD that sex workers like myself perhaps deal with more than other women. 

That deep distrust... of any man... doing anything for you... the distrust that his kindness must always have ulterior motives. Thinking always, what does he want? What is he gonna do to me? 

But, you know, sometimes...they don’t want to do anything but be nice to you.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Aug 10, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Today’s episode is about drugs: loving drugs. Admiring drugs. Looking to those doing drugs… getting drunk… getting fucked-up...and seeing rock stars. Idols. Who you wanted to be. Where I come from, loving drugs is my inheritance. It is my legacy. 

...And I wish I could say I was done.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com.

Aug 3, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Stripping: it's just a job, right? It's just about the money...right?     

Today’s episode is about the lies we tell ourselves, the justifications we manufacture, in order to fill the insecurities we try so desperately to mask.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

 If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Jul 27, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  

Today’s episode is about prestige...walking away from it and refusing to disappear.   

After spending 12 years getting three degrees, I realized that my dream of becoming an intellectual artist and cultural influencer weren’t going to be realized teaching Freshman Composition.  

That is when I walked away, and took the biggest risk I have ever taken on: becoming Lux ATL.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Jul 13, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.

Today’s story is about the weird ownerships that go on in stripclubs. The fight for regulars, the suspicion of other women, the constant competition that we are actually manufacturing ourselves. People often ask, “how much do you girls hate each other”?

The answer is usually “not at all”, but sometimes “it’s quite a fuckin bit”...

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com

 

 

 

 

 

Jul 6, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. 

Today’s episode is drawing on my past. When I was a senior in high school, just a couple of weeks before my senior prom, I paid one of the worst prices that I’ve ever paid for “being a whore”. I was utterly brutalized by my boyfriend who was in his twenties, several years older than me. This is the story of the great beating I received due to my “whoreishness.” 

This is also a story about another man, a kind man, someone who tried to heal me from these wounds, but he needed to first heal himself.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com  

Jun 29, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.

Today’s episode is about obsession. It’s about the bonds we form with customers. That for us are just about dollars and maybe friendship. This is a story about a man who was my first regular customer. A man I knew, but I soon discovered... he knew me more than I had ever imagined.

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Jun 22, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD. 

Today’s episode is about when I moved from Louisiana to Atlanta to start a new life. I was all alone moving to a big city to start my PhD…wiith no money, no boyfriend, and no one to help split the bills. I decided to go back to what I had always been doing...stripping. 

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com  

  

  

 

Jun 15, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper With a PhD.  Today’s episode is about trust and betrayal. It’s about losing love, losing money, and going broke. Betrayed by a lost lover, betrayed by a friend--who can you trust when you thought your bucket was full—but that bucket in fact it has had a hole in it all along? 

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

 If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Jun 8, 2016

What's up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD.

Today's episode is about the day I knew I was done with the academy. If you are not working at a University, you may not know about the exploitative, dead-end reality of the American academy. However, after twelve years in the field, I was acutely aware of the grim realities of adjuncting, temporary appointments, and moving state to state for insultingly low sums. In this episode, let me take you on a journey through my escape from the academy to my full-time reentry into sex work. Enjoy!  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLSpellBook.com 

Jun 1, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning into Stripcast: True Stories from a Stripper with a PhD. Today’s episode answers the question: what really happens in a strip club, in those dark closets called VIP rooms, and from what well do we draw—sisters, strippers, fellow hoes—and how deep does it run? 

 

You’ll never know, because a good stripper will never tell.  

 

But— 

 

I haven’t been a good stripper for a long time.  

 

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl, or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl. If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com

May 25, 2016

What’s up, dudes?  Thanks for tuning in yet again to Stripcast. Today’s episode has been the hardest one for me to write. 

Today’s episode doesn’t take place in a strip club--today’s episode takes place inside of my teenage heart. Today’s episode tells the story of all the deep, terrible trouble I got into as a teenager for having sex, and the repercussions and scars that would follow me for the rest of my life. I talk about my adolescent experiences with sex, the unfair double standards imposed upon girls, and how my young life and that of so many other young women were stained with shame, while the boys are either congratulated or made out to be the victim in this world of sexual double standards.  

This episode is about the truly life-and-death impact this had on my life, and how a single act of kindness made me feel human again.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com

May 18, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 6: I Fell in Love With a Stripper. 

Today’s episode is about the first time that I ever had a real deal full-out lesbian sexual experience, and then just straight up fell in love with this chick. I was in my early 20’s, and still working at the first club I had ever worked at. There was another stripper there who went by the name of Crystal, who was constantly giving me the fuck me eyes, tempting me… until finally, one night, she invited me to spend the night. Glances, flirtations, hidden kisses, hot lovemaking, and finally a broken heart: this is the story of the first time I fell in love with a stripper.  

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.  

 If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com 

May 11, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast: True Stories From a Stripper with a PhD.

Today’s episode is entitled “Top Shelf Stripper,” and it’s about me falling on my ass-- figuratively and literally. Today, let me tell you about the only time I have ever been fired in my life--from a honky-tonk titty bar on the outskirts of town—and then decided to pick up my dignity, and become a top shelf stripper at the classiest joint in our great city of Atlanta, the world famous Cheetah. Here is the story of what happened when I tried to pretend I was high class.

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com

 

May 4, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 4: Stripclub Love Stories

Strip club love stories is about just that. The connections you make in this strange and unique environment that is at once totally false and yet totally real.

People who are not part of the industry tend to think of stripclubs as sort of soulless faceless holes where no real feelings could ever occur. I’m here to tell you today that’s not true. Listen to my stories about the love, friendship, the ways we helped each other, and the ways we failed each other up in that trap house. Enjoy!

Stripclub Love Stories: Johanna

  • Beautiful in every way: porcelain skin, lean muscle, curves, shiny black hair
  • A work of art: maneuvers around the stage like a serpent, fluid, hypnotizing
  • I know why you do this: she made me feel unalone when I was alone
  • Do you think anyone could ever love me? love someone like me...
  • How could anyone not love you?
  • Could anyone ever love you, my sweet friend...
  • My heart breaks to see this beauty wasted, unnoticed in the mirrors of her soul
  • Women watching, whispering fantasies, if only I could be like her
  • You count now, today with no provisions. You count today!

Stripclub Love Stories: Part 2

  • I’m a dancer too, he replies
  • 8 years in the industry, jaded, hard, face aching from smiling, back aching from arching
  • He asks me for a dance
  • I would like for you to keep on your clothes, and hug me instead
  • This hug was different, the kind you give your friend, your grandma, the kind that says I’m here with you, I feel you
  • All bullshit disappeared
  • Just two strippers hugging it out in the traphouse

Stripclub Love Stories: Part 3

  • She was super trailer park; brassy blond edges
  • Tatoos received from a kitchen table; rebel flags, chained pitbulls
  • Success is misspelled across her shoulder blade
  • She has a pimp; the girls whisper
  • Everyone hated Misty; she was country, inelegant, low-down
  • I loved Misty; When that Southern accent spilled out, I was hooked
  • She felt like home, to me
  • Breaking rules in VIP is a risk
  • I let you take the risk for me
  • I let you take the fall for me
  • She looked right through me

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl.

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com.

Apr 29, 2016

What’s up, dudes? Thanks for tuning in to Episode 3: When I Came Back for the Last Time.   

Stripping always comes in seasons--quitting and going back, quitting and going back. Today’s episode is about the beginning of my last season of stripping.  

I was 30 years old, a wife, mom, and panicking graduate student. I had my dissertation to complete, the job market wasn’t looking good, and I had started to lose faith in the academy. No to mention the frightening looming student loan debt. In this episode, I walk you through my re-entry into the trap house as an ABD PhD student with a family at home.  

This episode goes out to all the academics out there, who are freaked out about the field and wondering what to do. Enjoy! 

Truths and insights from my last reentry into stripping: 

  • A long year alone with a baby can make you forget who you are 
  • A Groupon special on pole dancing can reawaken some shit
  • You partner might not find your job so easy to accept
  • Pole tricks and dance ability don’t mean shit at The Oasis Goodtime Emporium 
  • Thousands of dollars are made in tiny dark closets
  • Once you realize you can make $1000 in a night, that knowledge dogs you, changes you, makes you reconsider everything 

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com 

Apr 25, 2016

Hello friends! Thanks for tuning in to Stripcast, true stories from a stripper with a PhD. Today, I am going to tell you about my first night ever stripping. After totaling my car on the way to the club and earning my first “naughty stripper” fine on my very first night ever stripping, this much was obvious: I had no fucking clue what I was doing.  Fortunately, I was lucky enough to have an old pro give me some tips and introduce me to the fundamentals of strip club culture. I hope you get a laugh and perhaps some insight from this libertine tale of my first night ever stripping. Enjoy! 

 

My first night ever stripping... 

 

Truths and insights into my first night ever stripping: 

 

  • In 1999, pantsuits and closed toe pumps were hot shit for club wear 
  • Keep your eyes on the road, even when looking frantically for a stripper store at which to purchase these items  
  • Zebra print pantsuit, silver pumps, “bitch” rhinestone earrings make for a dope-ass baby stripper get-up  
  • A blur of electric nerves in the baseline emotion for a first-time professional naked lady 
  • Some men want a friend; some get attached; some are powerful and secretive; some want to be called “bitch;” some are addicted to strippers; some fall in love; some become friends; some become stalkers. 
  • Removing your top at the wrong time results in a hefty fine and an angry housemom 
  • $187, a fortune, marks the beginning of a career 

 

You can connect with Lux on Facebook at facebook.com/lux.atl or follow Lux on Instagram @lux_atl

 

If you enjoyed these true stories from a stripper with a PhD, feel free to share or leave a review on iTunes. You can learn more about Lux ATL and subscribe to her newsletter at LuxATLPole.com 

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