20080615 I went into stripping for all the wrong reasons

"Craig Seymour: I went into stripping for all the wrong reasons"

June 25, 2008

What a hoot. How could I have missed this? As an artist and a writer, I have gone through some pretty lean times in my life. However, I must admit that this is not an idea that I ever considered…

"I went into stripping for all the wrong reasons."

After Craig Seymour Took It All Off, He Wrote It All Down

Sunday, June 15, 2008; M02 by Gabe Oppenheim for the Washington Post

Before Washington leveled Southeast's gay clubs for a stadium, when neighborhood men could get up close and sweaty together without being in the Nats lineup, Craig Seymour, 39, took the stage in a G-string.

A PhD student and stripper.

This fall, he joins the journalism faculty at Northern Illinois University.

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I always wanted to be a writer, but taking the risk as a stripper allowed me to take risks in other parts of my life. . . .

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I wouldn't put stripping on the curriculum for J-school. That was just part of my journey. That happened to be the thing I needed.

The better solution perhaps is just to take chances all along the way. I think I had made so many safe decisions in my life, I needed a big decision like stripping. . . .

I went into stripping for all the wrong reasons. I went into it because I actually thought it would help me make peace around the issues I had with body image.

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20080615 I went into stripping for all the wrong reasons