There's no real jaded 'I'm doing this for the money/to put myself through college' strippers. The only characters who strip are victims of past abuse who never seem to even contemplate getting into another line of work. Which baffles me since there are a fair number of weres who strip and I would have thought that the whole pack/pard/group-adjective-of-choice would be the perfect network to help the victim find another job.
Also, I find the idea that abuse is some sort of drug that weak and 'asking for it' characters get addicted to after one encounter to be deeply disturbing. One masochist (Nathaniel, say) is plausible*. Two is possible. Everyone in St Louis? That's pushing it. Then there's the fact that just because you have a masochistic kink doesn't make the actual abuse enjoyable or mean that you'll ever feel safe indulging said kink.
With such a horde of characters, why can't there be a plausible victim, one who gets on with their life but elects not to walk straight back into a lifestyle all but guaranteed to trigger bad memories at best, flashbacks at worst?
* By 'plausible' I mean that the sheer number of characters with abuse of a specifically sadistic nature in their background, probability alone suggests that one of the many has that particular kink.
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There's no real jaded 'I'm doing this for the money/to put myself through college' strippers. The only characters who strip are victims of past abuse who never seem to even contemplate getting into another line of work. Which baffles me since there are a fair number of weres who strip and I would have thought that the whole pack/pard/group-adjective-of-choice would be the perfect network to help the victim find another job.
Also, I find the idea that abuse is some sort of drug that weak and 'asking for it' characters get addicted to after one encounter to be deeply disturbing. One masochist (Nathaniel, say) is plausible*. Two is possible. Everyone in St Louis? That's pushing it. Then there's the fact that just because you have a masochistic kink doesn't make the actual abuse enjoyable or mean that you'll ever feel safe indulging said kink.
With such a horde of characters, why can't there be a plausible victim, one who gets on with their life but elects not to walk straight back into a lifestyle all but guaranteed to trigger bad memories at best, flashbacks at worst?
* By 'plausible' I mean that the sheer number of characters with abuse of a specifically sadistic nature in their background, probability alone suggests that one of the many has that particular kink.