Something For The Weekend with Ruth Ramsay

Something For The Weekend with Ruth Ramsay

Sunday Secrets: Lessons newbie strippers must learn FAST

Disrobing is the least of your worries

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Ruth Ramsay
Oct 26, 2025
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Learning how to undress seductively and spin around a pole are the least of your worries as a newbie stripper. From working conditions (how to tolerate rules which change without warning); to customer cultivation (walking the fine line of building a fan base without creating stalkers); aesthetics (maintaining a smooth bikini line daily, dancing during your period); and health (working in an environment where alcohol is available every moment), there are many challenges.

Read on for how I overcame these, including: did I stay and work a shift where the ‘toilet’ turned out to be a bucket in the corner of the dressing room?! Plus a few old backstage pics…

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