SUSANNAH BRESLIN: How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made, Part Seven: Interview with a Stripper. “I retired three times. The last time I thought it stuck. I was off the stage for almost eight years. And then when the recession hit in ’08 … A lot of times, it’s not that they’re coming here for dances with the topless women. I think, more or less, it’s for them to be able to sit down and just say, hey, this is what’s going on, and not maybe feel — we’re nonjudgmental.”