Download or read book Stripped an Exotic Dancers Journey to God written by Toby Billie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped an Exotic Dancers Journey to God speaks about a little five-year-old girl being molested by her sibling, which then hurls her into a life of abandonment and promiscuity, thus building an underworld enterprise. This intriguing real-life story tells how an innocent girl can be led into the life of violence, lewdness, and ultimately, imprisonment to having been brought out and guided by the hand of God. Toby Billie is an evangelist in ministry and is currently a sidewalk counselor. As a former dancer, the author has spent countless hours ministering throughout the streets of Baltimore, ranging from saving the youth to preventing abortions in the city. She also does campaign work for the youth at various churches, teaching them how to maintain abstinence and other valuable life lessons. Through her tireless efforts in ministry, she has received numerous awards. She comes from a large family of fourteen. The hardships from her upbringing propelled her to pursue higher education. As a college graduate, she is now a certified addictions counselor. Evangelist Billie currently resides in Maryland. She is married and is a proud mother of two daughters and five grandsugars. She also enjoys working out and weight training. She did an exclusive interview courtesy of the 700 Club for 460 million viewers and 138 countries around the world, internationally sharing her story.

Download or read book Stripped written by Verna Massdin and published by Tate Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped: An Exotic Dancer's Journey to God, illustrates the life of a five year old little girl who, due to sexual abuse as a child, was hurled into a life of abandonment and promiscuity, thus building an underworld enterprise. This intriguing, real-life story shows how an innocent girl can be led into the life of violence, lewdness, and ultimately imprisonment, to having been brought out and guided by the hand of God.

Download or read book Scriptures for Strippers written by Sayuri Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scriptures for Strippers will remind and reinforce the idea that redemption is possible for everyone. God loves, protects and wants a relationship with each of us. This work is the first devotional to the Holy Bible for exotic dancers and other in the adult entertainment industry. This book is a guide to the Holy Bible for women to look to God in times for spiritual confusion. Scriptures for Strippers is a journal where thoughts and study notes can be kept. There are areas to keep up with church visits, nightly earnings and long-term and short-term goals. This book is perfect for anyone who is starting a relationship with God and would like to keep track of helpful and useful scriptures. Learning how to fight spiritual warfare, deal with haters and relationship guide lines are only a few of the topics covered in this thorough study guide.

Download or read book Stripped written by Maggie M. Werner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric. Informed by her own ethnographic research conducted in strip clubs and theaters, Werner analyzes the movement, dress, and cosmetic choices of topless dancers and neo-burlesque performers. Drawing on critical methods of analysis, she develops approaches for interpreting embodied erotic rhetoric and the marginal cultural practices that construct women’s public erotic bodies. She follows these bodies out into the streets—into the protest spaces where sex workers and anti-rape activists challenge discourses about morality and victimhood and struggle to remake their own identities. Throughout, Werner showcases the voices of these performers and in the analyses shares her experiences as an audience member, interviewer, and paying customer. The result is a uniquely personal and erudite study that advances conversations about women’s agency and erotic performance, moving beyond the binary that views the erotic body as either oppressed or empowered. Theoretically sophisticated and delightfully intimate, Stripped is an important contribution to the study of the rhetoric of the body and to rhetorical and performance studies more broadly.

Download or read book Stripped written by Bernadette Barton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lapdancing, table dancing, topless only, or peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of exotic dancers.

Download or read book Dance for a Harvest written by Minister Lucie Poirier and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANCE FOR A HARVEST is a book that instructs those laborers wanting to go deeper into the things of God and to be used more mightily in these last days. Written by dance veteran Lucie Poirier, you'll read how she went from exotic dancer to dancing before God Himself. She provides candid and valuable insight into not just the dance, but how to become a weapon in the hands of the Living God, regardless of your calling and ministry. This book offers the reader: - A description of what the dance communicates in the spirit realm; - A reference guide for dancers that provides details on how to empower your dance; - Biblically-sound teaching and advice on recognizing your authority, identity and place in Jesus Christ and how to use this knowledge to properly and effectively wield your weapon of warfare; - The "what, when, where, why and how-to" that's needed for these end times, not just for dancers, but for anyone in ministry; Lucie helped me find the dancer inside of me and built my confidence in the dance. Melody Bolduc Worship Leader This is a must-read book. It's full of wisdom and "aha " moments that intensifies your spiritual walk with the Lord. I was truly blessed by this book and would highly recommend putting it at the top of your list of reading material, regardless of your area of ministry or your calling. Sherrie Clark Writer & Editor

Download or read book Naked Lives written by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is stripping good or bad for the women who do it? According to sociologist Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, there's no simple answer. An exotic dancer's experiences can be both empowering and degrading: at times a dancer can feel like a goddess, at times ashamed and dirty. Drawing on extensive interviews as well as her own experiences as an exotic dancer, Bradley-Engen shows that strippers' work experiences are shaped by the types of establishments—the different worlds—in which they work. A typology of strip clubs emerges: the hustle club, the show club, and the social club, each with its own distinct culture, expectations, and challenges, each creating circumstances in which stripping can be good, bad, or indifferent. Going beyond the warring rhetorics of exploitation and empowerment, this book provides a rich and complex account of the realities of exotic dance and offers a fascinating, thought-provoking consideration for both academics and general readers.

Download or read book Stripped 2nd Edition written by Bernadette Barton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Come Inside and See the Show -- 1. Becoming a Stripper -- 2. Dancing on the Möbius Strip -- 3. The Toll -- 4. Raunch Culture, Androsexism, and Stripping -- 5. Surviving Stripping -- 6. Sticking Together: Pathways to Well-Being in Stripping -- 7. Exiting Stripping -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Download or read book Degraded to Elevated written by Lacresia Williams and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four long years of being an exotic dancer in the strip clubs of Baltimore, Lacresia found herself indulging in the lifestyle that would soon take her deeper into a hole she couldnaEUR(tm)t escape. In a world full of drugs, alcohol, and lust, she knew she had to escape the scene eventually. No amount of money would compromise her morals and values any longer. People admired her and asked her about the lifestyle constantly. However, instead of telling them about the eye-catching glitz and glam, she would give them the honest truth about the lifestyle past the money and the behind the scenes that no one sees or could ever imagine. After Lacresia finally escaped, she explains how once she left the lifestyle, she became a successful black woman with many accomplishments. She explains how she started all over from the bottom with her back against the wall plenty of times to make her way to the very top by the grace of God. Lacresia explains her views on being an exotic dancer. She explains being drugged at one time, how no one saw her more than what she was doing, to becoming a masteraEUR(tm)s degree holder, having a great career, and being an author. Lacresia gives five steps to escape the lifestyle to walk into your God-given purpose. She believes she has a gift and God has chosen her to go through this journey to inspire others that may need a little guidance.

Download or read book Stripped written by Jud Wilhite and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Uncensored grace is what you get from a loving God when all the religious types have gone home, and every last hope for your own effort has blown up in your face.” What comes to mind first when you think “Las Vegas”? Maybe glitz and glam. Or dealers and dancers, high rollers and hell raisers. And why not? After all, the town they call Sin City is an American icon, an anything-goes shrine to pleasure, money, sex–and another lucky roll of the dice. Probably when you think Las Vegas, you don’t think about God or grace. Neither did Jud Wilhite when he was first invited to become the senior pastor at the city’s largest church. But the people he’s met since moving there with his family have changed all that. Today, Vegas stands for something much different and more surprising for Jud. He doesn’t think of Vegas as Sin City anymore. Now, to him, it is Grace City. Working with veteran journalist Bill Taaffe, Jud takes you past the neon and the hype to another side of Vegas–where people whose lives have been marred by loneliness, addiction, and despair are finding hope and freedom in a vital community of faith. Stripped is an account of what happens when ordinary people get honest with each other and an extraordinary God. In its pages you’ll meet gaming industry movers and shakers. You’ll meet working exotic dancers, a Flying Elvis, an American Idol contestant, a cop who won the hearts of a crime-hardened city, and more. Each of them has encountered what Jud calls “uncensored grace.” He writes, “Uncensored means that there is no formula or membership or performance that stands between you and God’s goodness.” Stripped is their unforgettable account of people who are betting everything on a very big idea: that as wide and deep and high as your mountain of personal ruin might get, God’s transforming grace is always wider and deeper and higher. From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book Naked Truth written by Judith Lynne Hanna and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and state governments to impose onerous restrictions on the clubs with the intent of dismantling the exotic dance industry. But an even larger agenda is at work, according to Judith Lynne Hanna. In Naked Truth, she builds a convincing case that the attack on exotic dance is part of the activist Christian Right’s “grand design” to supplant constitutional democracy in America with a Bible-based theocracy. Hanna takes readers onstage, backstage, and into the community and courts to reveal the conflicts, charges, and realities that are playing out at the intersection of erotic fantasy, religion, politics, and law. She explains why exotic dance is a legitimate form of artistic communication and debunks the many myths and untruths that the Christian Right uses to fight strip clubs. Hanna also demonstrates that while the fight happens at the local level, it is part of a national campaign to regulate sexuality and punish those who do not adhere to Scripture-based moral values. Ultimately, she argues, the naked truth is that the separation of church and state is under siege and our civil liberties—free speech, women’s rights, and free enterprise—are at stake.

Download or read book Stripped written by Bernadette Barton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Come Inside and See the Show -- 1. Becoming a Stripper -- 2. Dancing on the Möbius Strip -- 3. The Toll -- 4. Raunch Culture, Androsexism, and Stripping -- 5. Surviving Stripping -- 6. Sticking Together: Pathways to Well-Being in Stripping -- 7. Exiting Stripping -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Download or read book Naked in the Biblebelt Diary of an a Exotic Dancer written by Andrea Lynette Henry and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my true life experience while working as an exotic dancer in the biblebelt. I tell my story as it was happening raw and uncut. No apoligies No regrets

Download or read book Dancing Naked written by Mary Rogers and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth. Only Mary Rogers requires them to “dance naked.” To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that term signifies a pact between the writer, the subject and the reader: only when stories eliminate artifice and express honest beliefs and emotions can they merit attention and trust. It’s a phrase and philosophy unique to Rogers, and as a result the stories in Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans are unique, too. You’ve never read anything like them, and besides making you think, Rogers’ lyrical writing style and memorable insights into the traumas and triumphs of the human spirit will make you feel. Published in the Star-Telegram from 1991 through 2007, Dancing Naked presents the compelling stories of a variety of Texans (a few famous and all unforgettable) and adds a half-dozen essays from Rogers about her own colorful life. It’s a collection that will touch and inspire every reader, which is what fine writing is supposed to accomplish.

Download or read book Stripped written by Heather Brown McHugh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strip City written by Lily Burana and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2003-02-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky clubs and offbeat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage-and the darker realities that assail her heart when she's out of the spotlight. Strip City is both a hugely entertaining insider's account of a hidden world and a moving voyage of self-discovery. Lily Burana has written for The New York Times Book Review, GQ, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Spin, and Salon. She lives in New York State. This is her rst book.

Download or read book Stripping Sex and Popular Culture written by Catherine M. Roach and published by Berg. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper. The author, at first troubled and yet fascinated by her friend's decision, follows Marie's journey into the world of stripping as an observer and analyst. She finds that this world raises complex questions about gender, sexuality, fantasy, feminism, and even spirituality. Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, the book broadens into a provocative and accessible examination of the current popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, thongs gone mainstream, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture scrutinizes the naked truth of a lucrative industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.