People Telling us They Were Just Doing their Jobs...

Some of the strippers, especially, the ones just starting, had a misconception of the business. For some ungodly reason, they thought that they were a "star". They were too stupid to realize that there was nothing glamorous about getting up in front of a bunch of horny men, some who were "jacking-off" while watching, and taking off their clothes to music.

I was not dancing. It was stripping to the music. There was nothing glamorous about it. But with some of us it was a form of self-expression which was violated many times when we were busted by the police and thrown in jail.

One time in Chicago when I was busted, the undercover agent said to the ticket man and me while he was hauling us downtown, "You understand, don't you, that we're just doing our jobs?" I wanted to reply, "So are we".

Opal, the X-Rated Grandma, aka THE OLD STRIPPER: