yet another sleazeball trend circulating on TikTok. But sex workers are increasingly taking to the video-sharing platform — and not to strip off their clothes.Rather, they want to shed harmful misconceptions surrounding their oft-stigmatized profession.
In the stereotype-shattering phenomenon, dubbed “StripTok,” exotic dancers explain to their followers what really goes on behind the stripper pole. “I think that when myself and other StripTokers put ourselves out there, it’s opening a way for a lot of other sex workers and dancers who might not have normally come out and come forth about being a dancer because of fear of judgement,” StripToker Sky Hopscotch told Refinery29 of the stigma-busting trend.