Dignity

[Bill_Doubleu]

A woman once told me, "I was fine with it (stripping) after I lost my dignity". I didn't get it. Receiving attention, the kind filled with "I want you", and getting lots of money for it doesn't seem like a matter of dignity. The old double standard plays a part, but there is something I don't get about female sexuality, and pride. Can it be 'splained' either man or woman, splained?

 

[Somethingnew1124]

Hi Bill,
For me my body is deeply personal. When I share it with someone it is because they have appealed to my mind and I want them to see it. It almost feels like a secret I keep and you have to earn the right to see it or touch it. To take off my clothes as a job to earn money steals my control as the gatekeeper of my body. I am not doing it because I want you to see it, I have to do it. And for me, that feeling of losing control of who sees me and how feels like a loss of some very basic dignity. I am sure it is not this way for every woman but that is how I would explain it for me.

 

[SPARTAN047]

I would too.