What is it about strippers that grab peoples imaginations? is it because when you think of a stripper, male or female, an attractive person pops into your head? Or is it something else? I don't know the answer to these questions, but I am just as guilty as anyone else of being fascinated by strippers. When I was trying to figure out this weeks Hunk of the week, I stumbled across a lost piece of information: Channing Tatum used to strip for a living.
So i sat with my laptop trying to figure out if I should make him HOTW. Ultimately I decided to, but then I started spinning stories in my head of why he took his clothes off for money. Multiple scenarios popped into my head, maybe he did it to pay for school. Cliche, you say? I concur completely, but its a fact of life, sometimes you want to go to school but simply can't afford it. Then I thought, well maybe he was on drugs, but I can not believe that with a body like his, he would put drugs in his body.
As I switched form working on GG to doing some work with my fiction, I decided to take these thoughts and used that as a springboard for some other stuff. I then talked to a writer friend of mine and she said that I had succumbed to the Stripper Syndrome. Meaning that I try and take something that society tells us is taboo, and spin into a romanticized version of what it probably was. According to my friend, Channing possibly just needed money to pay the rent, put food on the table. To that I say how rude, every dollar that was put in his non-exsistent G-string got him one step closer to taking his clothes off in the movies.
So i sat with my laptop trying to figure out if I should make him HOTW. Ultimately I decided to, but then I started spinning stories in my head of why he took his clothes off for money. Multiple scenarios popped into my head, maybe he did it to pay for school. Cliche, you say? I concur completely, but its a fact of life, sometimes you want to go to school but simply can't afford it. Then I thought, well maybe he was on drugs, but I can not believe that with a body like his, he would put drugs in his body.
As I switched form working on GG to doing some work with my fiction, I decided to take these thoughts and used that as a springboard for some other stuff. I then talked to a writer friend of mine and she said that I had succumbed to the Stripper Syndrome. Meaning that I try and take something that society tells us is taboo, and spin into a romanticized version of what it probably was. According to my friend, Channing possibly just needed money to pay the rent, put food on the table. To that I say how rude, every dollar that was put in his non-exsistent G-string got him one step closer to taking his clothes off in the movies.
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