Erin Louis recounts her journey as an exotic dancer and atheist, reflecting on her youthful defiance and eventual maturity. She critiques her earlier confrontational attitude toward religion and believers, advocating instead for empathy and collaboration, particularly in protecting secular values.

About the Author:

Erin Louis is a former adult entertainer, with a love of books, writing, and humor. She spent twenty years as an exotic dancer and started writing to shed light on a misunderstood industry and profession. An active skeptic and secular advocate, she is the author of Expose Yourself, which explains our cognitive biases, critical thinking, and secular humanism using anecdotes and analogies from her career as a stripper. Louis is also the author of several dark humor and horror fiction novels, which include elements of critical thinking and secular humanism.

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