PLAYGIRL MAGAZINE - GIRL TALK
PART III
by Amy Drew Teitler
PLAYGIRL: Where do you want to go from here? I've heard both Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster have expressed interest in your story.
JILL: I have had some feature film interest expressed in the show. I was flown out to L.A. to pitch the story to a major screenwriter and that's still in the works. I'm working on a new show called Aftermath: The Go-Go DTs. That's going to probably turn into a documentary. I'm going to interview women who worked in the sex industry. I want to hear the different things these women are going through. If I could get some kind of cable deal, like an HBO special, that would be great.
I'd ultimately like to have my own production company. I mean, I don't have to be a solo artist. I'd work with a group of people in New York on films or plays or something. It's been really rewarding to do my own thing.
PLAYGIRL: Why is the public so fascinated with go-go girls and other aspects of the sex industry?
JILL: Because it's an illusion. A titillating illusion.
PLAYGIRL: Do you think in this day of sex fear and latex paranoia it's becoming more popular?
JILL: Sure. It's the ultimate safe sex.
PLAYGIRL: What has dancing taught you about yourself, other people and life?
JILL: Dancing showed me what I was made of. I'm a tough cookie, and I didn't know that. Now I know I can dance on my own terms. Not so much for the pleasure of men, but for myself--and still make money and draw strength from it. It also wised me up to the fact that women really are different from men. That may sound silly, but being a tomboy, I was always one of the guys. I was always like the guys. They treated me equally. They were never like, "Oooh, Jill!" They never treated me like a sex object!
PLAYGIRL: Did you enjoy that?
JILL: I loved it! They were my brothers. They wouldn't check girls out so much in front of me, but I always wondered what it would be like to be a real girly-girl.
PLAYGIRL: Yeah, me too.
JILL: I was never a girly-girl, even when I danced and I had to deal with the negative attitude, How can you do that? I'd justify it and say I do it my way. I'm not this passive shithead. I mean, I'll educate men. I don't do everything for a dollar. I'll do this, and I'll do this but if you push me too far, if you try to humiliate me, I'm not gonna do it. It's a fuckin' dollar! I thought that was kind of good. I was like this little missionary go-go dancer. (we laugh).
PLAYGIRL: Do you think that the show changes men's attitudes about go-go dancers?
JILL: When I come out in the beginning of the show, I work the stage and I get the dollar from some guy. One guy once said, "You know, I got over your outfit in about five minutes." So I'm humanizing the dancers. I've heard men say that they don't go back to go-go bars, or they don't go as much and when they do go, they really look at the dancers differently. I'd like to think that they treat the women a little better afterwards.
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