The more difficult problems concern the dancers very private lives. I know from my own five years of therapy always to act as the dancer’s advocate, and to help her make her own decisions regarding her family and love situations. Whether a pregnant stripper should have an abortion seems to be a common problem. Whether to leave the good-for-nothing husband or super jealous boyfriend who is beating the dancer regularly is an issue shared by too many of the girls.

A somewhat common and very consequential stripper problem focuses on whether the dancer should give up custody of their children to the father or grandparents who are outraged by the dancer’s vocation. The dancers themselves may be caring and responsible single moms but, regardless, the relatives usually feel that no stripper can properly care for a child. More times than not, the dancers chose to stay in stripping and fight the legal battles, which many eventually lose.