Because exotic dancing required becoming another person, it was hard to tell if it was the customer I was creating the fantasy for, or myself. A dancer may create another person that continues the charade throughout her workday, but unfortunately long after that as well. Aristotle’s explanation of how intellectual and moral virtue is dependent upon one another, illustrates reasoning behind the struggles of my self and my co-workers, “ Like activities produce like dispositions”(428).

The differences of my moral world compared to that envisioned and imposed by the club owners, did not vary much in the content, but in extreme. The atmosphere created in a strip bar, is one much like a dream. It is a place where men, women, or even other dancers, can live out or witness their sexual fantasies, without much wrath of consequences.

The strip-club is a breeding ground for avoidance of responsibilities. In the beginning I was very confused and impressionable. For whatever reasons, I saw this new life as glamorous, and holding all facets of the person I wanted to be. I began to realize; to follow the path shown to me by my boss’, I would have to put aside my beliefs, and follow the paths of the other dancers. My focal point, similar to my co-workers, was completely on money. This required learning how to manipulate people in any fashion, as long as there was a monetary payoff. If I did not put extreme attention to this area, my income would suffer.

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