(using fast reply) I don't really have much of an answer regarding Masters using their slaves, but I would like to comment a bit on strippers. I have a niece who is a
very talented Middle Eastern dancer... who lives in central Indiana. As one can imagine, there is not much work for even the most talented of this type of dancers, so she makes her living as a stripper, as it does allow her to dance which is her life's calling. She has been dancing since she was literally able to stand. I recall when she was trying to learn to shimmy. She was copying my sister (who was learning to dance then and is a damn fine dancer and instructor in her own right), while holding onto the side of her playpen. She got her first veil when she was around 2. Dancing was and still is what she loves. Indiana is also one of those places where stripper = prostitute in most people's minds. Frankly, it pisses me off to no end.
My niece is NOT a prostitute. She IS a devoted mother and was one of her daughter's 'class moms', who baked cupcakes and cookies, helped decorate the class room for parties and even picked up one of her daughter's classmate's for a week when his mom was recuperating from surgery. She is there all day for her children, something most mothers in this day and age do not have the luxury of doing. She works 4 nights a week, 3 weeks a month, and is able to pay all her bills, with a bit left over to provide some of the 'nicer' things for her kids. She also works out of town so there is little chance of random encounters with the clientele of the club, which would most likely embarrass the 'customer' much more than my niece who is rightfully not ashamed of what she does for a living. She works hard at her craft, which is dancing. I am not ashamed of her either. In fact, I'm quite proud of her, as this post might suggest.
Sorry, it ended up being more of rant than a comment, but this is a subject near and dear to my heart, as is my niece.
So prostitute can't be a devoted mother? A 'class mom'? Or help out a fellow mom when they need help? I bet if your sister started working as a self-employed prostitute she'd have even more time for her kids AND more money to spend on them.
