SEXIS WRONG

was lookin’ and enjoying it, I got with them and said, “Yeah,
they like what I’m doing.” I felt goood about it after about—
five minutes. I did what would turn them on, and what turn
me on is their smile and responses. It was great.
How much of your performance is you and your sexuality
and how much is persona? ~ [Laughs.] All of it’s for real.
The only difference is where I’m at. If one of the guys was
onstage, I’d say sure, why not? [Laughs.] It’s nothing fake
about what I do up there sexually, ’cause I’m actually showing
them how I make love—it’s me.
Why did you choose the stage name you use? ~ Because
everybody used to talk about my lips! “God, you got big lips.”
So I said, “Shidd, I’m gonna call myself Lusty Lipps.” My
mom helped me pick out the name. Gotsta have ’em lusty.
[Laughs.]
Do you ever become aroused by what you are doing
and what is happening around you onstage? ~ Shit,
yeah! [Laughs.] Oh, baby—don’t leave. I look at them and
say, “Mmm, hmm.” If their ass attract me, I tell ’em to turn
around. “Shit, let me see what you got.” [Laughs.] Oh, yeah.
Gettin’ hot, it’s nature. Shit, if I didn’t, I think somethin’ be
wrong with me. [Laughs.] Shit, yeah, I likes dat. Men make
me hot. [Laughs.]
What can you do onstage that you can’t do offstage?
~ [Laughs.] Look at the customers and their
dicks. Onstage you can take off your clothes,
open your legs, and say, “Look at this—look
what I got.” You can’t do this out in the street
because it’s the law. If it wasn’t the law, I’m sure everybody’d
be sittin’ there with their legs open, “Hey, look at this, yeah.”
But that’s just the way it is—somethin’ that you have to accept.
I would like to change the goddamn law! [Laughs.]
Many of the dancers who work here say that they prefer
this closed type of stage and see it as safe and fun because
of the absence of physical contact with the customers.
How do you feel? ~ I like this, too, because a lot
of men can get really abusive. If it was open, they could grab
you. With my temper, I’d done knock one of the fuckers out.
[Laughs.] They can touch on the win dow all they want, and I
can touch on the window, too. It’s in their mind—they actually
think they’re touching us, so it makes them feel better.
What is your favorite type of customer? ~ Erotic, exotic,
and X-rated, along with me. One that can show me some motion.
If he’s gonna jack off, jack off right! [Laughs.] Show me
some motion. Someone being there with a smile on his face,
happy, showin’ me some response.
time of day; they couldn’t ask me for SHIT! [Laughs.] There’s
a certain way to ask. I make them say “please,” and then
I think about opening my pussy for ’em. I won’t dance for
people who laugh at the other dancers. Why should I give
them the satisfac tion of dancin’ for ’em when they’re up here
makin’ smart-ass comments about the other dancers? I say,
“No, go dance for yourself and look in the mirror.”
Describe the variety of sexual behavior customers express.
~ Oh, dear. [Laughs.] They bring their little tools and
sexual things, such as dildos. One hand is holding his penis
and the dildo is in the ass, which I think is totally their thing.
It is great they can express themselves like that in front of us.
It’s no problem, doin’ their own thing, like givin’ theirselves
head, and us bein’ there supportin’ them. “Yeah, baby that’s
it!” “Suck that bitch—wish it was mine you were suckin’.”
“You lookin’ good down there.” [Laughs.]
I guess some of them feel the need to wear women’s clothes,
to feel closer. Hey, if that’s yo’ thing, you like it, I love it. I don’t
have nothin’ to say about that. One man likes to smell women
panties, put panties over his head. I say, “Shit, yeah, baby,
that’s cool. I’m glad you did that.” One man sucks the bananas
and smash ’em against the window wit’ his chest, and it
turns him on. He turns me on, too, when he do it. [Laughs.]
So everybody has their little thang. Couples come in and make
love in front of us. She’ll give him head; he’ll suck her—give
With my temper, I’d done knock one
of the fuckers out.
us a show. I like it; I give ’em thumbs up. Shit, not too many
people can express that. I think sex is a beau tiful thing. I think
it’s great that couples are comin’ in. Men get hot off’a us, and
she gets off on us, too, by him touchin’ her. They do their little
business and they get on. Everybody’s happy. They leave and
we sit here—NEXT!
Describe your family and its circumstances as you remember
them during your childhood. ~ I have three sisters,
a brother, and Mom. My dad left early, which was good.
[Laughs.] I knew him for about three years. He really doesn’t
matter. The circumstances of my family were good, as far
as I’m con cerned. Mom was Mom and Dad. She worked,
and my oldest sister took care of me, before school. Mom
worked with newspaper advertising, checking up, squaring
up the newspaper. My mom’s mom was German, and my
grandfa ther is Navajo Indian. Mom’s children are half black, a
quarter German, and a quarter Indian. I don’t know where my
mom and dad met; I was never too interested in askin’.
I won’t dance for the ones that always hollerin’ ’bout, “Open
up your pussy lips,” and all that. I don’t give them nothin’, the
What were you taught about human sexuality by your
mother? ~ Everythang. My mother never hid nothin’—what-
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