And you know? I don't want to be disengenous here and imply that what I've seen and heard means the shady oppressive stuff doesn't happen, because it does. But I do think there's a difference between burlesque, and stripping, and sex work, and so forth, though those worlds may intersect.
Absolutely. There's a whole world of shades of grey there, and I don't have more than passing experience of any of it, other than what I've read, or heard from friends who are more closely involved in bits of it.
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