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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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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.

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