A stripper’s biggest fear isn’t the taxman or even death but the unforgivable law of gravity. The ravages of age for a girl who must publicly display her body for the approval of beer-guzzling party animals and who is totally dependent on a thumbs-up rating of her tits and ass, can drive her to despair. For, none among us can escape the tugs and pulls of body parts by the loving Mother Nature.

Sagging breasts and a bottom-slung ass do not combine for a moneymaking operation. You can imagine how much cash is directed at the older topless dancer sandwiched between two twenty-one year old younguns. Today’s strip club customer throws out two challenges to entertainers – she’d better damn well be young and thin. Beauty alone hardly cuts it anymore. Once an entertainer reaches her physical peak, and this may occur onlya few years from her first visit to the strip club stage, her earning power declines dramatically.

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