\*I don't post much on Reddit, so I am a little new to formatting. \*

I'm having a debate with one of my boyfriend's friends. He thinks ITA, but I disagree. You decide.

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I stopped stripping last year, but I used to travel a circuit between Vegas, AZ, and CA based on what was in season. A few years ago, when Tinder got super popular, I hit upon the idea to use my dancer FB page to create a tinder account. Everything about it pointed to the fact that I was a dancer, and it actually kind of looked like a bot page, but I wanted to make the message as clear as possible: This is business.

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My profile was really short: "Hi, my name is CentsandCensure, and I'm an entertainer at "Club Whatever". Come and party with me and my friends, we'll have a blast! Here are my hours and the days I'll be working &lt;3", and that was it.

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It worked superbly, but I always had a few guys that couldn't quite get with the program. They'd message me over and over, saying "Oh I'm definitely coming in tonight. I'm on my way!", but they'd never arrive and end up saying they got stuck somewhere else. I wasn't upset, I had more than enough to keep me busy, but they were wasting A LOT of time. Hundreds and hundreds of messages all day and night with no return. In a big city, I'd block them, but in small towns I was loathe to loose a potential customer. One of the reoccurring themes was "I don't go to strip clubs ...I just want to buy you dinner!!!!" 

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So, one slow week night we were all pitching in for a pizza and I thought, "Whats the difference between using my tips for food, and just letting them buy the food?" The next time a guy told me he wanted to buy me food instead of coming to the club, I said ok. I would show up, get my food, eat it with them and leave. And of course I'd invite them to the club with me. It worked decently, some of the customers got miffed, but hey, that's life. Pretty soon, I had almost every meal lined up, and it decreased much of my traveling expenses. Eventually I got the customers to start bringing me food to the club, which was even better since I always preferred to have my bouncers handy when interacting with them.

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I don't feel like I was the asshole here. I was not deceitful, I didn't lie and I never promised anything extra. If someone asked me if I would consider dating them, I just told them I preferred to get to know people in the club because it was my safe zone. (This is true, all my boyfriends came from those customers I decided I'd rather date.) I tried very hard to be upfront with my customers without spoiling their fantasies. But, I'm probably not objective about it, so you tell me.