Working as a stripper AND a nurse

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Hello everyone. I was wondering, is it detrimental to my job as an RN if I am also stripping on the side for additional money? Can I be fired for this? I know there are morality issues (for some) and such with this, but is it legally wrong? I live in southern California by the way. The salary as I make as a stripper is far greater than any nursing job out there. The reason I'm also working as a nurse is for the benefits, retirement, and job security when I'm older and can no longer strip.

Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.
A strip club is a place where men (and some women) go to pay to see breasts at work. Breastfeeding is a private matter and may make people uncomfortable in a setting where it is not expected. That's the point I was making.

Oh my goodness. This draws me back into this conversation. Breasts are not "working" at a strip club. Breasts are "working" when they are physiologically doing what breasts have evolved to do - feed offspring.

This reminds me - I'm starting to think the Western Europeans are right about Americans having strange ideas and fixations about women's breasts.

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Our culture is so screwed up.

With all due respect to the OP, I just caught her response to another post regarding breast feeding in the workplace. Her advise was to not disclose that she is breastfeeding to her employer as that information might work against her, and pump in a concealed room as her co workers might be uncomfortable.

I guess I thought that those mammary glands are evolutionarily about nourishing our offspring. I guess it is better to keep them concealed so we can better market their appearance in strip joints.

You can breast feed or pump in public if you ant but don't cop an attitude if I stare at the breast you pop out.

If you don't want people staring at your breasts don't work in a strip joint OR breastfeed/pump in public.

Our culture isn't screwed up. If breast feeding is ok then we need to take it one step further. Sex is EVOLUTIONARY. It propagates the species. By your logic I should be able to have pictures of naked women up in my office. I mean, 'Hey! It's only evolution and biology right?' Bleh...

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A strip club is a place where men (and some women) go to pay to see breasts at work. Breastfeeding is a private matter and may make people uncomfortable in a setting where it is not expected. That's the point I was making.

Your point confirms my point: Our culture is screwed up. Guess what? Breasts at work are breasts that are feeding a baby. How sad that this basic and critical biological function is shunned/banned/discouraged in some parts of our country because breasts have become so sexualized. We should be encouraging women to BF anywhere and anytime to better support this important component of healthy children and moms.

Again, in all due respect, you have to admit that it is pretty funny that a stripper would be worried that someone might be uncomfortable because of a nursing Mom.

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Oh dear . . . . placing breastfeeding into a thread guarantees controversy. :chair:

I told this story on the latest breastfeeding thread . . . but this example is the same as the OP's concern. . ..

My boyfriend's dad didn't want his teenage sons to see a woman discreetly breastfeeding but called them into the room when the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders came on tv thrusting their breasts into the camera. "Hey boys, come take a look at this!!".

There is something wrong with that. :nono:

And "working breasts" ARE breastfeeding breasts.

steph

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When stripping, you are not just dancing around a stage naked, you are dancing in front of husbands and fathers, most of which are there without the knowledge or approval of their wives.

One career saves lives, another career destroys lives. You can choose between them, or you can try to combine them...but ultimately- in the meantime, you will be destroying yourself in the process.

In alot of cases, the wives are there with the husbands anymore LOL In clubs there are usually a (to some) surprising number of female patrons. As to "without the knowledge and approval of their wives"- are we to malign hotel workers now too because they might be checking in patrons who are sharing a room and aren't married? It's not the dancers job to play moral police- that husband/father is his own keeper and if he knows his wife doesn't know and approve, he shouldn't be there- that's his problem- not anyone else's.

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Our culture is so screwed up.

With all due respect to the OP, I just caught her response to another post regarding breast feeding in the workplace. Her advise was to not disclose that she is breastfeeding to her employer as that information might work against her, and pump in a concealed room as her co workers might be uncomfortable.

I guess I thought that those mammary glands are evolutionarily about nourishing our offspring. I guess it is better to keep them concealed so we can better market their appearance in strip joints.

The OP isn't dancing at her nursing job... You can't see the difference there?

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True- but the same could be said of nurses who *attend* strip clubs as patrons.... The "issues" of others seeing them there...

The people that attend have their clothes on, but up on the stage, there is absolutely nothing left to the imagination. I do think that stripping can cause issues in the workplace when one of the clients recognizes the nurse that stripped, and it can cause quite a few issues and drama.

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The people that attend have their clothes on, but up on the stage, there is absolutely nothing left to the imagination. I do think that stripping can cause issues in the workplace when one of the clients recognizes the nurse that stripped, and it can cause quite a few issues and drama.

Regarding your first point- that all depends on the club. In alot of cases- dancers do have on clothing (not much- but you see about the same on the beaches, so..) Second of all, sure- it can cause issues and drama- but so can anything out of the "norm". If the nurse is homosexual, practices a different non-mainstream religion etc.

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The OP isn't dancing at her nursing job... You can't see the difference there?

I am not trying to emphasize the difference, just the simple irony. Because breasts have been so sexualized in our culture, women cannot expose them, even discretely, for the naturally biological function of feeding her babe. Thus a stripper advises a mama to keep her shadowy BFing habit under wraps.

I thought, you, equi, who have espoused much on women's need to define their own power and sensuality, would see the twisted humor there.

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Regarding your first point- that all depends on the club. In alot of cases- dancers do have on clothing (not much- but you see about the same on the beaches, so..) Second of all, sure- it can cause issues and drama- but so can anything out of the "norm". If the nurse is homosexual, practices a different non-mainstream religion etc.

I was mostly thinking of when the nurse gets a strip club client as a pt. The pt. saw her on the stage and just might hassle the nurse. Of course, some male pts. do that anyway.

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I am not trying to emphasize the difference, just the simple irony. Because breasts have been so sexualized in our culture, women cannot expose them, even discretely, for the naturally biological function of feeding her babe. Thus a stripper advises a mama to keep her shadowy BFing habit under wraps.

I thought, you, equi, who have espoused much on women's need to define their own power and sensuality, would see the twisted humor there.

I am debating only the point that not all women find stripping demeaning, degrading or oppressive. I'm saying only that one can't place (accurate) blanket generalizations on the subject.

I DO find the contradiction hilarious. But I also see why the OP would argue the point. At a strip club, people pay in large part to see breasts. At work- people aren't expecting to see breasts... So yes- at work it is adviseable given our screwed up culture, to cover them.

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I was mostly thinking of when the nurse gets a strip club client as a pt. The pt. saw her on the stage and just might hassle the nurse. Of course, some male pts. do that anyway.

Unless she's a well known headliner, or the patron has a 'regular customer' sort of relationship with her- chances are unless she had her clothes off while treating them- they wouldn't even notice LOL

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