I've had some experience with exotic dancers. My girl-friend stripped for awhile a couple years back and several of my friends have dated--or are dating-- dancers. Never exclusively dated one myself, though I have had a couple delightful romps with them.
A great deal of what these other posters say is true. Strippers are a wholly unique group of women, but even with them it doesn't pay to generalize. Most dancers fall into one of the following categories:
1.Relatively normal girls who use dancing as way to get ahead, to put themselves through school, start a business etc.
2.Party Girls for whom dancing is an appropriate career to mesh with their wild lifestyle
3.Desperate girls with little marketable job skills who feel they need to dance to support themselves, their family, expensive tastes, drug habit etc.
It's unfortunate that a large majority of strippers fall into the last two categories. They're damaged goods and most of them have a chip on their shoulder when it comes to men, so watch yourself. Sounds like your girl, squirrles, hasn't been dancing long enough to get too acclimated to the strip-club subculture, but the longer she dances, the harder it is going to be for her to stop. She's also pretty young, so all of this may not apply.
As far as strippers being golddiggers, my experiences suggest, in fact, the opposite is often true. Yeah, obviously some girls are extremely greed-driven, and the dollar signs in their eyes will likely never fade, but I've heard more than a few dancers say "I make enough money for myself" or "I really don't care what a guy makes as long as he's employed and likes his job." Lip Service? Maybe. But if she is making $3000 a week or more, searching for a guy to leach off of when the Median Job in the US economy pays somewhere around $27,000 a YEAR may prove to be a time-consuming and ultimately fruitless pursuit. I found most dancers with Bf's were partially or completely supporting them financially
Okay, so this is kind of irrelevant information at this point since you're only at a first date. What can I tell you? First, Dancers HATE weak, sensitive guys, even more than your average gal! They seem to dig C+F and an Assertive attitude, and they may provoke a confrontation to see if you've got any balls. But they also put up with alot of macho BS, so showing you have a kinder side to you seems to pull their heartstrings more than the typical HB. Just No Poetry!! lol Don't fawn over her good looks. That'll get you nexted or LJBF very quickly. By the same token, don't ignore her sexuality, it's a very prominent part of her personality. Notice the contradictions? Just like most women, only to a more frustrating degree.Think of strippers as Femininity-On-Steroids.
As for what kind of date, at least part of it should be an action
date. These girls bore easily. Their job is as much about what comes out of their mouths as their bodies, so, while the ability to carry on a conversation is a small plus, they're pretty immune. Best advice I can give:
GO OUT AND HAVE FUN
Establish yourself as a fun guy to be around, and, even if she ends up not interested, word will spread, and having a stripper-friend is a gold-mine of opportunities, believe me.Good Luck!