The Naked Truth: Cancer Organizations Reject Stripper Donations

In the first place, Exotic Dancers For Cancer was something we started as just a "Cheer Up" event for a woman and friend who was a former exotic dancer and had learned that she was terminal. For her 40th birthday, we wanted to throw a big party and cheer her up because she was really feeling down. Her name was Jocelyne Sioui.

I told her I would continue the event in her memory if she died, which she was told she was going to. This will be the fourth year that we've done the event. The first year, she was alive and so it was just for her, and since then, it's been in her memory. She passed away three months before the second annual Exotic Dancers for Cancer and we've been organizing the event ever since. It's a collective organization among the exotic dance community - a bunch of us dancers promote it through an online forum on the nakedtruth.ca, which is a website that I founded. At The Naked Truth, you can get all the information for the event.

The first year we raised around $3,000 and we bought Jocelyne a scooter with it. The second year, we couldn't find an organization that would accept our donation. We wanted to give it to the hospice that Jocelyne died in, but they were owned by three churches, so they would only take the donation anonymously. I had discussed this with Jocelyne before she passed away, that we would want to choose an organization that would publicly accept our donation so we could put their name at the bottom of our poster and in press releases.