Bryan, Amber P.2014-04-212014-04-212014https://hdl.handle.net/1794/17419Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2013-2014. 23 pages.Exotic dancing has been studied widely throughout the social sciences. Many scholars, such as Bernadette Barton and Katherine Frank, have argued that women become exotic dancers because they are suffering from repetition compulsion, causing them to follow intimacy scripts in both work and personal relationships. However, these arguments have not adequately addressed the issue of how working as an exotic dancer may affect the sexuality of the dancers or their sexual interest in other women. This rarely acknowledged issue was of particular importance throughout this study, examining and comparing the participatory sexual encounters before becoming a dancer to the participatory sexual encounters after becoming a dancer. Through ethnographic and empirical research, I have determined that working as an exotic dancer does cause a change in the dancers’ sexual interest in other women, as well as the level of sexual encounters the dancers are involved in their personal lives.en-USAll Rights Reserved.Other