you're right about women's responsibility to provide positive role models to girls, specifically mothers to their daughters.  but i think you underestimate the role of capitalism in the creation of "stripper feminism"; for every man who "love[s] to see near-naked women in seductive poses dance to music, and [is] willing to pay for it," there's someone else ready to make that money.  the reality is that, even if women made an intentional choice to quit stripping/posing for porn/turning tricks en masse, there is enough incentive (demand) for a sex industry that disenfranchised/otherwise vulnerable women would be forced into one anyway.  don't believe me?  it's happening in other parts of the world already.  there's just too much money to be made.

i'm not trying to remove all accountability from the shoulders of women who are active participants in this industry already, but isn't the attitude that some women adopt where they see themselves as deriving some kind of power from those professions just an attempt to justify their role in the ugly machine?  they have to find some kinda way to look at themselves in the mirror.  but the "ends justifying the means" argument boils down to the "i let you win" concept; unfortunately, there's no real value in having control over someone else's victory when you still lose.

the other thing that you must take into consideration is that some girls -- no matter how much their mothers love them and remind them that "the world will still love them if they keep their clothes on" -- simply give in to the enormous pressure that is placed on them to be sexual beings.  becoming a sexual being is not in and of itself a bad thing, but immature minds don't have the capacity to really understand how to control their own sexual identities, and, with the confusing messages (from men and women) in tandem with the pressure to put out, many girls will turn to the false sense of power they can get from being the hottest of the hot girls, on BET, MySpace, wherever they can get their attention on.  

i do agree with you that the way to counter the mentality is to instill a sense of self worth in our daughters and that mothers modeling positive behavior may be the most effective approach, but the impressionable, fragile psyche that many young women seem to naturally possess (i was a young girl once myself -- it's a jungle out there!) can make for a tough sell.  still, we've got to keep working at it; lord knows our competition isn't giving up any time soon.

Like always, you break it down to where it will stay broke.  But what is it with you and Big Butt Fridays?

i just want to understand why all conversations about sex/sex-work have to devolve into some type of crusade to save these womens' souls.  some women want to engage in this work. they're not all broken, beaten, or unloved either.  when sex stops selling, then we will see an end to stripping etc.  another query, why aren't men who strip etc considered victims in the same way?  just a thought.