Does Buffy go through with it?

Yes, she does III

Wearing little more than stripper heels and red lingerie, Buffy stepped out on stage and proceeded to dance to the music. Oddly enough, it was an old Divinyls song, "I Touch Myself," a song whose lyrics Buffy proceeded to act out in almost every way imaginable.

When she was done with that, she started to toy with her bra straps. Men -- and even a few women -- were throwing dollar bills on stage but Buffy did not stop to pick them up.

Instead she unhooked her bra and threw it backstage, thus baring her breasts -- oh, let's be honest, thought her stripper self, they're tits -- to the entire audience.

As far as Buffy was concerned, she was no longer Buffy Summers, daughter of Joyce Summers and student of Rupert Giles. She was "Anne" the former waitress -- now turned stripper without a single regret. Sure the audience was looking at her but then she wanted them to look. They were all strangers, anyway. What did it matter if they saw her like this?

Then she lowered her panties -- her final item of clothing apart from her shoes -- as she faced away from the audience. She stepped out of them and threw them backstage as someone in the audience started to clap and another stranger wolf-whistled.

Buffy was just about to turn around and face the audience again when she heard a stranger say, "Gee. I haven't seen you in here before."

She turned to see a young brown-haired guy staring up at her.

"Hi, stranger," she said as he placed a tip in the side of her shoe. "You wanna lap dance after the show?"

"Sure," he said with a grin.

"My name's Anne," said Buffy, extending her hand for a quick handshake. "What's yours?"

"Ben," he said as he eagerly shook her hand. "Ben Wilkinson."