Top porn stars - the ones who can smile, lick their lips and gaze at the camera with bedroom eyes while receiving two monster dicks rammed up their holes at the same time - are great. I love to gaze at their perfectly fuck-toned figures and gleaming golden tans, gasp at their stamina as they enter the fifth minute of reverse-cowboy, and wonder at how repeatedly having their ankles above their heads for long stretches of time has given them contortionist's hip joints. But there's something uniquely sexy about a girl at the opposite end of the porn ladder - the one just starting out. The one with the puppy fat the porn-star lifestyle hasn't burnt off yet and the white skin which has never seen a sunbed; who gives an endearingly clumsy hand-job while looking at the camera with a mixture of shyness, trepidation and excitement; whose muscles visibly tense as they feel a stud's cock pushing apart their pussy lips for the first time.

I'm certainly not alone in this - as the popularity of first-timer and amateur porn shows. Relish's Fresh Off The Bus series is one which caters to these tastes, and the latest, Fresh Off The Bus 3, which I reviewed this week, is the best so far. There are five stunning new girls to enjoy - with enough experience to justify being in a top label film, but not so much they look like they're just going through the motions.

The same kind of niche exists in striptease. Men love audition nights. Remember, being a new stripper is not like being a wannabe comedian, where you can go to amateur nights and polish your act, having tried out jokes on your friends for weeks beforehand. Maybe you've danced for boyfriends, although most would kick up a fuss if they thought you were practicing to go out and do it for other men, so maybe you can’t try it out on the current one... Yes, for most dancers, the first time we stripped in front of other people, it was at our first ever audition, in front of a pub-full of men. This means extreme nerves and excitement, and a performance which is totally, vividly in-the-moment. The energy in the room at times like that can be incredible. Guys love to experience that, and watch another new girl lose her striptease virginity.

Sometimes new dancers can appear from unexpected places. At the Queen Anne in Vauxhall the other week (which has just undergone a transformation from the shittiest strip pub in town to the most glam), the girl who'd come in about a job as a barmaid ended up on stage. Everyone stopped what they were doing to watch, transfixed as she disrobed publicly - and unexpectedly - for the first time. The guy I was about to do a lapdance for asked if we could wait until after she'd been on, and I was glad as I was dying to see the show too. For a beginner she was good, and she's now dancing there five days a week – her name is Roxy, go check her out.

There's a Readers' Wives element to all this. Sometimes it's sexier to see someone 'real' than a polished perfected professional. When I started stripping and didn't have many costumes or dance dresses, I utilised whatever was in my wardrobe, including in particular a denim miniskirt and little flowery tie-front top. It was summer, and guys would often say, "it's so sexy to see you get on the stage in that; it's like you're one of the horny girls I've been walking past out on the street who's just come in and done a strip". I was soon told by the venue that I needed to invest in some 'proper' outfits though, and quickly ditched the street look, perhaps unfortunately.

Some men look out for and court the new dancers, until they become too confident and professional for their tastes. As soon as a girl looks like she could do a strip while actually thinking about what she's going to cook for dinner, they're off looking for another nervous new girl. There’s more going on here than simply wanting to watch a woman take her clothes off. As a new girl, you are pleased and flattered that someone is showing interest so quickly, value the apparent words of wisdom, and look forward to having someone friendly to talk to at your next shift. You’ve heard that the way to make steady money is to make sure you have a few ‘regulars’ who come to see you at each venue, and this man is your first. He in turn gets his thrill from the attention he therefore receives, and enjoys a feeling of importance that he’s helping out an innocence newbie.

Once the girl has been dancing a little while and is getting lots of attention from all sides, however, she will have to divide her time between a number of customers. Hopefully she handles this transition delicately but firmly, and the first guy then looks elsewhere for another new girl to befriend, understanding that’s the way it works. Rather than her totally fucking it up, and him going off in a huff which lasts not days or weeks or months, but years. Yes I speak from personal experience, but that’s a story for another time…