Let’s speak to Aja Corynn who made the documentary film “Pleasers”. Our guest applies her anthropological background and creative lenses to her experiences as a stripper; Let’s talk stripclubs, relationships, retirement and media.

1:00 anthropologist and former stripper

2:00 why she quit

6:00 California Girls in Anaheim, Deja Vu in Hollywood

10:00 “Black and kinky” NY dominatrixes

14:00 I’m inside looking around

17:00 on survival sex work vs empowerment 

22:00 mandatory tipout

27:00 don’t write about strippers if you aren’t one

31:00 racism and in Vegas

36:00 on the good things

40:00 technology replacing strippers?

46:00 bad managerial practices

51:00 on AB5 in CA and employee status

54:00 camaraderie 

58:00 don’t settle

Find our guest on IG @AjaCorynn & @pleasersseries

Find your host on IG @stripperwriter @theytalksexpodcast

Find your host on Twitter @ellestanger 

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