From: CheapKllr@hknet.com (SamKool and Yat-Tiu)
Subject: ASSC (AFTSD): Regression to the Mean
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 08:01:44 GMT

Aria Méchanceté-->  I think those are damned useful skills and virtues.

SamKool-->  well, that's quite a stretch of the term virtue. this is the
sex industry we're talking about.

Aria Méchanceté-->  Many are paying their way through college.
Granted there are plenty of cracked out desperate girls in the
business, but do not put them all under one stereotype.

SamKool-->  are people stereotyped? or are people stereotypes?

Aria Méchanceté-->  I was pleasantly surprised to see happy,
resourceful, healthily sexual young women when I have worked with them
in the past.

SamKool-->  here's where i insert *yadda yadda yadda*.

why?

experience.

after 17 years (to the day) of ASSCing/knowing/dating/living with (which
is in all seriousness nothing to be proud of)/hiring/firing strippers it 
makes a person wonder how aspects of ones life actually become a significant
part of ones life. your job, your hobbies, your friends, your knowledge, your 
common sense or lack thereof... where did it all come from? how is it a part
of you? why is it a part of you? some of it we sought out and some of it snuck 
in. in my case, the sex industry. regardless. just continue living. onward.

x = *yadda yadda yadda* 
  [stereotypical remark about and/or made by strippers]

a/c = ya, i know...
  [asscer/customer 100% agreement with what she said]

sk = cynically experienced retort

x (we are paying our way thru college)
a/c (ya, i know strippers that are paying their way thru college)
sk (how many finish = <5%)

x (i'm going to be a dr, jd, cpa, etc.)
a/c (ya, i know a stripper thats gonna be a dr, jd &(!) cpa.)
sk (how many actually do = <5%)

x (strippers make a lot of $)
a/c (ya, i know a strippers that make a lot of $)
sk (how many tell the truth = <5%)

x (strippers have a lot of $)
a/c (ya, i know a strippers that have a lot of $)
sk (how many never worry about money = <5%)

x (we all charge the same)
sk (how many undercut at least one time or another = >95%)

x (i'm quitting stripping)
a/c (ya, i know a stripper that says she's gonna quit for good)
sk (how many return for a second look within 2 years = >95%)

x (my best friend is another stripper)
a/c (ya, strippers have a bond)
sk (how many actually trust each other = <5%)

x (strippers love stripping)
a/c (ya, i know this stripper that loves stripping)
sk (how many still mean it after 1 year = <5%)

x (i'm proud of what i do)
a/c (ya, i know strippers that are proud of what they do)
sk (how many tell their relatives = <5%)

x (stripping has no psychological effect on me)
a/c (ya, i know strippers who aren't damaged)
sk (how many are in denial = >95%)

x (i'd never date a customer)
a/c (ya, she said "if only i wasn't her customer")
sk (how many have dated a customer at one time or another = >90%)

x (the owner banks)
a/c (ya, the dude banks)
sk (how many of you have seen the books = <0.01%)

face it. every aspect of this industry is 95% shit. let people forever
glorify their so-called involvement with the upper 5%. just remember
that people come and go. time, on the other hand, is a constant.

why do stereotypes exist?
time.

what is the consequence of time?
regression to the mean.