Michele Pasin / Quotes

Lap dancing takes a thick skin

Some of the girls shouldn't be doing it because they don't make money," the house mother says. "You have to have a thick skin and the right kind of mentality. Some customers might not like them. You have to be able to take it on the chin. If they get knocked back, I am here to console them. Some of them who are starting out, they do take it personally. They get their feelings hurt if they ask a customer if he wants a dance and he doesn't.

Saved 26 February 2013 / www.guardian.co.uk ↗

#feelings #girls #mothers

Baby blues and postpartum depression

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Harlow's monkeys wanted comfort, not food

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Kiss the sky

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The wrong thing for the right reasons

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Wanting to be admired for trivial tricks

it will often happen that when you tell a girl how beautiful she is, she will say, “Now isn’t that just like a man! All you men think about is bodies. OK, so…

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