I agree with Stewart on the generational gap.

I came across this article today Pole Dance Perfection: No Stripping Required.

Whenever I tell people that I run a Stripper School, the immediate reaction is "Wow! Can you do the one where you're hanging upside-down and spinning?"

"Only from the ceiling fan in my bedroom." I usually quip back.

There truly is something mystical about the gracefulness of skilled pole dancers. It is an art form which requires experience in dance, gymnastics, and acrobatics. Three things that I severely lacked exposure to when I first started dancing 10 years ago.

My first club, The Spearmint Rhino in Upland, CA had one stage as a focal point. There was a pole and I tried to learn how to do pole tricks. I took the easy route and bought shiny vinyl boots that stuck to the pole making it effortless to climb. I learned how to wrap my ankle around the pole at just the right angle to create enough friction between the shiny pleather and the chromium pole that I could flip upside down. Every night I would hope that the girl before me wasn't wearing body lotion"or else I would slide too quickly down the pole and klonk my head on the granite stage.

STRIPPER POLE TIP 1: If you don't look graceful doing pole tricks"don't do them! Slow down, move sexy, toss your hair around and interact with the tip rail. Clunky, disjointed moves on the pole that end with "THUD" on the floor are not going to close any sales for you.

STRIPPER POLE TIP 2: I figured this one out right around the third time I pulled my rhomboid from trying to catch my balance on a lotion-y pole. If you are hurting yourself more often than the dollars you make from doing pole tricks PLEASE STOP! My a-ha moment was when I was driving down the freeway in California and I had to shift lanes. I turned my head left to check to see if the lane was clear and got a shooting pain radiating from my left rhomboid.

A few dollars were not worth my strategy that afternoon on the I-10: hope the lane was clear.

I have other businesses that I work on. My favorite is my travel company www.destinationavalon.biz Everyone likes to talk about travel, so it not only makes for good conversation...but it also had lead to me making new clients because my company can provide better services than their current travel agency. The strip club is a FABULOUS place to network. Where else do we get the personal cell phone number of Fortune 500 Presidents and CEOs?

I took several months to interview 4 different doctors (after researching online for roughly 3 years) before I chose the right surgeon for me. I was a 36D naturally, but in this industry...men don't want real....they want to pay for the entire fantasy!!! The first 3 surgeons all said that I HAD to have a lift (aka another $3k they could tack onto the pricetag) The surgeon I chose was the one who said, "Well, to avoid the double bubble, we just have to chose a high profile implant and fill it up enough to support your natural tissue" No problems, no complications, free annual check-up, and hundreds of men who ask, "Are they real?" I highly recommend Dr. Marvin Borsand in Scottsdale, AZ www.bodynew.com.

That's pretty funny. At the consultation for my ADD evaluation, my shrink asked me what I do for a living. I responded, "The same thing you are doing right now, except I wear a pretty dress, rhinestone choker, and charge twice as much."

It also reduces the sparkle of rhinestones. I have a Swarovski crystal encrusted dress and gstring. It looks FABULOUS at upscale gentlemen's clubs (which tend to have less black lighting than the average titty bar) But there is absolutely NO SPARKLE when the black light hits it!