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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.