I’ll be thinking of other things, like what am I going to get to eat after. Kim says: “The guy sitting there? I’m oblivious he’s even there. We have feelings, we’re normal people.”īut then the girls don’t think much of the men, either.Įven when a dancer is writhing over a man, he may think he’s on to a winner – but she doesn’t. Kim says one punter even asked if “strippers had feelings”, which upset her. Her views on lap-dancing have changed, but others have not – including the people paying for her to dance.
“But I couldn’t get a job at all, anywhere, so I plucked up the courage to ask for a job and that was it.” “I used to slate it: ‘I’d never do something like that, it’s so bad’,” she says. Lap-dancing wasn’t her first choice of employment. “I think he was pushing his own dreams on me. “My dad doesn’t have a place to tell me what to do,” she says.
My mum was crying and my dad fell out with me.”Ī friend suggested she try out as a stripper and, like most parents, they pleaded with her not to do it. I walked away and didn’t want to be a gymnast any more. “Because I was being pushed so hard I just retaliated against it. “I never really had a normal childhood,” she says. But at the end of her teens she decided to quit. He’d taught her since the age of two and she travelled the world, competing.
Kim was a childhood gymnast who represented Scotland, but rebelled against her dad’s strict training regime. Kim admits: “Dancing is so addictive – you are getting a wage every night rather than waiting a month for pay day. The longest someone stayed at Diamond Dolls was six years. Others may be paying their way through college. You’re selling a dance,” she says.įor many girls, the lure of not sitting at a computer all day or working in a factory may bring them to work as a lap-dancer. “It’s like working in Frasers, selling perfume. But she didn’t see it as selling her body to strangers. One of the most experienced was Glaswegian Kim, who was there for nearly four years but quit for a job in a bank after the series was made.Īt the club, she did six-hour shifts, dancing at a pole or privately for paying customers. More than 300 men a week visit the club, paying £10 or £20 for a dance, which can be topless, from one of the 40-plus dancers. Glasgow strip club Diamond Dolls is the focus of the first episode. The number of strip clubs has doubled in the last 10 years and a new Channel 4 series, Strippers, starting next week, goes behind the scenes at some of them to meet the dancers, owners and punters in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. With a lack of jobs and the sky-rocketing cost of living, lap-dancing’s easy money has turned it into a short-term career choice for hundreds of Scots girls. THE recession is driving women to strip for a living.
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