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Sita Kaylin

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I was born in San Francisco and raised by a single parent in a loosely organized hippie commune of vegetarian drug dealers. My mom worked at the famous Trident restaurant in Sausalito, and although she loved me, she was checked out—I raised myself for the most part. In addition to selling (and doing copious amounts of) cocaine, the house patriarch trained standard poodles, showing them at stuffy dog shows while gaked out. At the tender age of eleven, I already knew life was a sham.

I started working at ten, first cleaning offices, then touring the carnival and craft fair circuit selling crystals and pewter figurines. I moved out of the house just before my sixteenth birthday. I took the California High School Proficiency Exam and stopped goi I was born in San Francisco and raised by a single parent in a loosely organized hippie commune of vegetarian drug dealers. My mom worked at the famous Trident restaurant in Sausalito, and although she loved me, she was checked out—I raised myself for the most part. In addition to selling (and doing copious amounts of) cocaine, the house patriarch trained standard poodles, showing them at stuffy dog shows while gaked out. At the tender age of eleven, I already knew life was a sham.

I started working at ten, first cleaning offices, then touring the carnival and craft fair circuit selling crystals and pewter figurines. I moved out of the house just before my sixteenth birthday. I took the California High School Proficiency Exam and stopped going to high school to quit my night job and work full-time. My abusive childhood caught up with me emotionally, I started cutting and starving myself. Seven months after I had moved out, I was locked in a mental institution in East Oakland for general teenage angst, self-loathing, and suicidal tendencies. To get out, I entered and graduated from a thirty-day adult rehab. I remained clean and sober for twelve years. I eventually went back to school. Through hard work and many simultaneous jobs, I earned my Bachelor of Arts at San Francisco State University in 1994, intending on law school.

Two years before graduation, I started stripping. I had money for the first time in my life; it was incredible. I always say: money isn't happiness, but it sure the fuck is freedom. I worked at Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, the city’s premier strip club for nine years, where I was surrounded by other creative, intelligent, open-minded women like me. Law school never happened. Like most strippers, I figured I'd dance for a short time to pay for school, save a little dough and have some fun...I never thought I'd still be in the sex industry over three decades later.

I moved to Los Angeles in 2001. While attending UCLA’s Recording Engineering program, I worked at Sound City Recording Studios while stripping part-time at a club by LAX. Although I loved studio life and recording music, the exhaustive hours and singular lifestyle wasn’t for me; I was back to the proverbial drawing board. In 2004, one of my co-workers asked if I would take photos of her. I absolutely loved it. Not only was it fun and creative, but I also discovered that I had an eye for it.

I've always loved writing—even though I’m terribly dyslexic. I'd considered writing a memoir years before I started it (mostly at the behest of others). I brought my Composition Book to the club so I could write while it was slow; it spilled out of me. My first memoir, "Anything But a Wasted Life", was written mostly in strip clubs as well as local watering holes around Los Angeles.

During my tenure as a stripper, I also hooked when the price was right, and I was single. I stopped dancing in December 2013 but have continued to see private clients.

"Anything But a Wasted Life" was published by HarperCollins in 2018. I self-published the updated edit with new cover art in 2023, plus, an audiobook I recorded this spring!

"Anything But a Wasted Heart", the second installment in my series was published June 2023. For further information about the people in my orbit, see ORIGIN STORIES on my website.
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“I often wonder if men get off being mean to dancers. They pay admission and unload a lifetime of resentment onto pretty girls. We let it slide, night after night.”
― Sita Kaylin, Anything But a Wasted Life

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“Deflecting from reality is what I do for a living.”
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