ABSTRACT
The author had been working full-time as an erotic performer in San Francisco. The author loves being a stripper. He/she considers the theater where he/she works to be a model of what all sexual entertainment theaters should be. The hardest part of the job was dealing with the author's feminist principles concerning the objectification of women. Dancing nude is the epitome of woman as sex object. As the weeks passed, the author found he/she liked being a sex object, because the context was appropriate. Of the crew of sixty performers, half were, and still are, lesbians. They lamented the fact that very few women would come to the theater to watch them perform. The sex industry suffers from sexist attitudes as much as any other area. Women have traditionally been bottom-level workers while men have held management and ownership positions. Only in past few years have women begun to hold positions of power in sex industry.
