people who criticize high end escorts and their clients because of her looks (she's too ugly to make that kind of money!) are proving that they know nothing about being with a woman who is seductive, smart, alluring, and in short, an overall talented courtesan
No, because it’s a job. It often allows far greater autonomy and agency than a regular job. It is still labour within a capitalist system, so words like “empowering” are generally inaccurate. It has little to do with female sexuality, as the goal is financial long before enjoyment.
I don’t deny we live in a patriarchal system and that men in the sex industry exploit women, but sex work is often singled out unfairly.
Instead, the focus should be on government policy, education and personal choice. Young women should be taught that their sexual fulfilment is equally important and that sex is meant to be fun and always enthusiastically consensual. ♥️💫
one thing I love about SW is that you can thrive while being literally any type of person. different looks, body types, personalities, niches 💕
everyone has sexual capital. everyone has something that somebody out there finds irresistible.
i started doing this in my 30s, and some of the things I used to be insecure about ended up being the exact things my subs adore about me 🥰
i wholeheartedly believe that the things that make you different are often your biggest strength ♡
I moved to New York when I was 19 and took to walking miles. It was Sunday, and I walked into a church in Harlem. The service was just starting, and everyone stared at me. The pastor walked toward me and put his hand out. I took a seat at the front. I didn’t know that worship was fundamentally segregated (naive). The warmth and kindness were immense.
Years later, I attended a church outside D.C. I wasn’t dressed appropriately, but I was met with anger and hostility. I listened to the sermon and realized it was simply Fox News talking points. Nobody welcomed me. I don’t believe that many of the congregation had actually read their Bible at all.
The story of Jesus is acceptance, kindness, and redistribution. All are welcome. Conservative churches instead embrace something else.♥️
Politicians talk about welfare costs. They rarely talk about poverty costs.
A disabled person losing £50 doesn't remove £50 of cost from society. It often shifts far greater costs onto the NHS, councils, carers, charities and other public services.
That's not efficiency.
@LovergirlSixxx I was awful at it. I agreed to cover for my friend and after a few hours I just refused. The ick factor combined with utter weirdness convinced me that in-person sex work was my forte. Great admiration for any woman who does it. ♥️💫
The adult entertainer as a broken person is one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding sex work, and it's a stigma that extends into healthcare and mental health spaces.
@SummerHartxxx of @swaidvegas shares what she's seen firsthand as a therapist working with sex workers: the struggle to find providers who can offer judgment-free care, the impact of medical discrimination, and why so many assumptions about the adult industry don't match reality.
This powerful conversation about autonomy, stigma, sexuality, and seeing people as whole human beings is out now!
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‘Working Girls’ at 40: Director Lizzie Borden talks Sex Work Through the Decades
Sex work is work. This is true today, and it was already true 40 years ago, when American director Lizzie Borden gifted us the feminist masterpiece Working Girls. Yet, our society still chases its own tail, compelled by moralistic platitudes, desperate to bite off any material accomplishments sex workers have since achieved. So what at first seems like a tautology – sex work is work – still raises eyebrows.
Working Girls showcases the same intersectional solidarity that motivated other classics in Lizzie Borden’s filmography. This remarkable feature chronicles a day in the life of Molly, a Yale graduate working in a Manhattan brothel. Borden describes it as a “workplace film”, centring into the frame the mundane routines of sex workers with different socioeconomic backgrounds. The sheer verisimilitude of its cast, events and mise-en-scène have led many viewers into mistaking the independent drama for a documentary, which can only attest to Borden’s directorial prowess.
Much has changed since Working Girls was released in 1986. Sex workers advertise their services on Reddit rather than newspaper backpages, over 4.6 million creators are registered on OnlyFans, and the porn industry alone generates almost $100 billion in revenue a year. And much has stayed the same, as sex worker unions fight familiar battles – decriminalisation, police violence, deficient health services, and so on. Both the well-intentioned, adequate criticism from the left and the chauvinistic attacks from the reactionary right can lead to material retrocesses in these workers’ struggles – all in the name of ‘protecting’ them. Some challenges are new, while others have barely bothered with rebranding themselves.
https://t.co/1gTjzMXB4E interviewed Lizzie Borden to discuss what has changed, and what Working Girls’ place is today.
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It's a ridiculous notion based on patriarchy, the fallen woman fallacy, and a complete lack of understanding. It also comes down to your personal circumstances and how you choose to behave. I was never ashamed or embarrassed by my profession. When people asked what I did for a living, I told them. I mainly received positive responses; those that weren't showed a slightly odd, morbid curiosity.
There are many things I'm ashamed of; being a sex worker was never one of them. My husband, a former client, He was and still is proud of his wife. Yes, there is a double standard, but it only changes by bringing it into the open and discussing it—by listening to sex workers and to the men who purchase sex in a consensual way.♥️💫