So you want to date a stripper? If you've answered yes, you've already made a big mistake. The woman you want to date is an “exotic dancer.” If you call a dancer a stripper, you've immediately insulted her.

The U.S. has thousands of strip clubs that, some reports say, collectively take in as much as $6 billion every year. […] I spoke with Liza[…] about how she became an exotic dancer, how the adult-entertainment industry is changing with increasing priority of the internet, and why people don’t consider her job respectable.

Exotic dancer

Meaning

Noun