This thread might need a pole.
d&r
My doctor told me that the pharma companies have cut way down on in-person visits by representatives.
Is slapping considered the most effective way of putting on a g-string? It sounds uncomfortable.
I’ve heard that from a bunch of doctors too, but people I know who are actually pharm reps say they are just focusing on different fields now (ie., the pain management market is tapped out, so they are going to oncologists and the like).
This. Exactly this.
When I was young and got laid off, this very same thing was suggested by a so called “friend”.
I never spoke to him again.
Wow, 20 years later and it still pisses me off.
When you say “Hey, I know you’ve been having a hard time financially. I worry about you. I know it’s a tough job market right now, so please don’t take this the wrong way, but have you ever considered stripping?”
She is going to hear “I’m thinking about you naked right now”
Stripping may be a controlled environment, but it’s not a 9-5 job. Strippers are around a lot of illegal activity, including drugs and prostitution. They face occupational hazards that most office workers do not- things like stalkers, being propositioned for illegal activities, routine sexual harassment, lots of drunk people, etc. As for job satisfaction, it’s something some people enjoy, but most people do not like being seen naked by strangers.
I think this discussion is really about how men are fascinated with this idea that female sexuality buys us all kinds of special privileges. How often have we heard on this board that women do not need to work hard to find suitable sex partners (“women can just go out to a bar and pick up anyone!”) or that every attractive woman has a magic moneymaker? What I see in the OP is this same fascination with the idea…as if he is thinking “Yeah, if I were a hot woman I would totally do that! Free money!”
What the OP (and most men) don’t realize that is that it’s not always so straightforward and rarely as lucrative as it seems. Women, it turns out, can easily sleep with men, but not necessarily men they are attracted to. Using your sexuality to get ahead financially rarely works out particularly well- there are so many ways it can backfire. Sure, maybe you can get promoted by flirting with the boss, but that comes at the price of not being taken seriously in the workplace and maybe missing the next promotion. And all sexual attention comes with drawbacks- it can be obnoxious, tiresome, intimidating and even dangerous. It’s not some free gift. It’s a complicated thing most women have an ambiguous relationship with.
I’ll ignore the usual condescending tone of your reply, but let’s see: of the threads I’ve started in the past year or so (anything older would be irrelevant), I’ve mentioned my difficult upbringing, my cat peeing in the bathroom, jury duty, bed bugs, and my girlfriend’s new job. The rest of my threads are mostly either in CS or the Game Room. How, pray tell, did you manage to glean from any of those personal threads that my intention was to sneakbrag about bedding an attractive woman? Can you point out one single post where I have engaged in that sort of bragging?
Actually, yes, it does. But she doesn’t have a boyfriend, so why does it matter? Oh, here’s why:
You’re taking something that wasn’t a factor in the situation and making it a factor. It’s like saying, “SWB, do you think I should take flying lessons?” and you responding, “Would you ask me that question if you were blind?” I’m not blind, so no, that’s not a factor.
No. You accused me of sneakbragging completely unprovoked, then you changed the question by adding an imaginary boyfriend to the equation. Had you said, “No, it’s never a good idea, and here’s why,” then we’d be getting along swimmingly.
Can you, for once in your life, admit that you were too quick to judge and made a mistake?
A few years back, there was a Brown University coed who paid her way through college by dancing at a local “gentlemen’s club”. She wrote a book about her experiences.
As I remember, you have to be very careful in this line of work-these establishments are often owned by mobsters, and there is a lot of untaxed money involved.
I suppose you could look at it as getting paid to do aerobics-but the clientele would gross me out.
OMG the melodrama of it all! For once in your life, SWB, for once in your life! Seriously, you’re hilarious.
It isn’t a matter of if SHE has a boyfriend at all. If you’d bother to read what I said rather than just railing about the same nonsense you’d see that it wasn’t me who said or implied that she had a boyfriend at all it was YOU.
You mean to tell me in your over 3 decades of life you’ve never heard anyone say “How would you like it if someone talked to your _______ (mother, sister, wife) that way?” That is what I was doing in my first post in this thread, post #53. In post #58 you ask me where you indicated she had one. Huh? I never said anything about her having a boyfriend. I explained it in more detail to you in my next post #60. Explained how I was framing it to you as in “You probably wouldn’t like it if someone talked this way to your gf” and once again never said anything about her having a boyfriend. You have completely missed the point yet again even after I’ve explained it in more detail.
So once again. I never said she had a boyfriend. That is irrelevant 100% no matter how many times you want to bring it up. You made this thread to ask if it is ever a good idea to suggest this to a friend. Your own brain has told you several times it’s probably not a good idea. Many people here advise it is not a good idea. I advise the same and used someone in YOUR life as an example as in “You probably wouldn’t like it if your loved one was approached about this thing” and all you seem to want to focus on is accusing me of saying she had a boyfriend? What? Seriously, you are not reading the words on the page. YOU (y-o-u) are the one who keeps bringing up her boyfriend status. Not me. You don’t get it and I’m not explaining that portion of it again. Either you get it now or you don’t.
As far as the sneak bragging thing, calm down. You say you weren’t sneak bragging in a thread about this hot girl you know who could totally make a lot of money stripping and oh you’ve already banged her, well okay then. My bad. I’m not sure where I would have ever gotten that idea. Silly me.
Don’t be so crass. He didn’t say he banged her, he said he’s seen all there is to see. He could be talking about her laproscopy vids for all you know.
I chuckled.
I agree. About 1 per 10 million.
Which is about less than one per state of the union.
No, but they would pay big bucks to see some hot naked babestrut across the stage. Awkward, rhythm, left/right feet does not enter into the equation.
You haven’t been to enough naked bars, kid. 
There exists a spectrum of “strip clubs”. You have an opinion based on experiences with one end of the spectrum. But there are places where the dancers give BJs in cars between their sets and nobody cares about the dancers’ dancing abilities.
Two left feet? Seriously? As long as she can get those feet spread as far as possible, there wouldn’t be a problem in the kinda places I’m talking about.
OK. I don’t think I’d want to go to the places you guys are talking about. 
But speaking of which, we must have hit more “gentlemens’ clubs” type places. So there’s a hierarchy?
Looking hot and being hot are two different things.
OP I’ve had these suggestions made to me from time to time, my response to the lads is - ok you go first.
Disclaimer: not intended as a stealth brag to insinuate that I’m attractive.
:smack: You said there’s a spectrum. Out of the three or four times we’ve gone to a strip club there was one that was “seedier” and not as much fun. Maybe the guys revisited it later on their own…
I’m a guy. I’ve been in places where I felt very uncomfortable.
Varies by state as well. In PA, the Liquor Control Board is very particular about what happens in liquor serving establishments. In PA if you are in a place that serves liquor, it will be a “gentleman’s club” type atmosphere.
Then there are BYOB clubs that are largely not regulated, at least by the liquor control people. All bets are off when it comes to some of those places.
Agent Foxtrot, Sleeps With Butterflies, please stop sniping.
Thank you,
Ellen
Awwwwwwwww, I thought it was cute.
In my experience, unsolicited advice is rarely appreciated or accepted. If she’s not yet at the point where she’s asking you for advice on how to solve her problems, she’s not ready for you to inject solutions. A person must at least get to the point where they asking for solutions. Maybe it’s best to let things play out. Being homeless can be temporary. Maybe it will give her the motivation to take a good, hard look at her situation and start thinking up solutions of her own.