The "People Power" Job Superbook Book 38. Adult-XXX Jobs-Business (Escort, Porn, Webcam Model, Phone Sex, Dominatrix, Dating or Porn Website, Sex Surrogate-Therapy, Sell Sex Toys, Write Erotica)
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Author(s)Tony Kelbrat
ISBN / ASINB00IU9DLF4
ISBN-13978B00IU9DLF3
Sales Rank811,134
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
I don't regret it, but I also don't glamorize it.
The right to be a prostitute is as important as the right not to be one. It is the right to set the terms of one's own sexuality, plus the right to earn a good living.
Priscilla Alexander, sex worker activist
I have read lots of stories by sex workers describing their lives. The common thing they all say is do not glamorize the life. It's work that is hard and dangerous at times.
I read The Happy Hooker in the 1970s then I saw the movie Pretty Woman in 1991. After that, I met real street walkers because I was a young guy experimenting on the edges of life. What a contrast.
Women in the sex trade are viewed at different extremes by everyone including the women themselves. Some, like the radical feminists and the religious right, say it's sexual slavery and demeaning towards women, a reflection of a society where men are dominant and use women to serve their sexual ends with a sense of entitlement.
Others, like the liberal feminists and many of the women actually in the sex business, like the work and say it's freeing because they're in control of their own destiny while doing a positive service by helping men in the sex department and often in the mental health department as many of them say, acting as counselors to a bunch of lonely, stressed-out tense men who happen to be successful enough to hire a hooker.
Sex workers themselves say that all consenting sex between adults is good even if it is for pay. It doesn't matter. It's consenting. Society should get off this judgmental kick and leave people alone who want to sell sexual services.
It doesn't matter how kinky or offbeat it is, if people want to do it consentingly, that's their business, nobody else's.
In society in general, apart from the few glamorous ways whores are portrayed in silly movies, most of the people see them as victims of life, poor, stupid, weak people brought up on the wrong side of the tracks, probably were sexually abused as kids, are now hooked on drugs doing the only thing they can do to survive, sell their bodies.
Most people are blissfully ignorant about the actual life of a sex worker but they believe that the girl or guy would rather be somewhere else.
They simply can't fathom that normal, well-
adjusted people would choose this profession for any of a variety of reasons.
It could be fun for them, at least for awhile. They like the creative aspect of it as with stripping. They don't have to work a regular job or don't have the constitution to. They need the money. They have an expensive hobby like cocaine. They like the temporary power of being desired by men. They're artists who have to support their lifestyle.
Radical feminists see all sex work as demeaning to women. Liberal feminists see sex work as a source of power where the women have some power over men and get paid for it.
In any case, two issues are generally true:
Because of the stigma society gives to sex workers, many of them, even if they're proud of what they do, lie about it and cover it up to their mainstream friends and relatives.
It is still illegal in some of our western cultures which is silly in the first place for supposedly free countries to have laws regarding something consenting adults do but this is another problem these people face, worrying about getting busted for earning an honest living, providing a service for their pay cheque.
The right to be a prostitute is as important as the right not to be one. It is the right to set the terms of one's own sexuality, plus the right to earn a good living.
Priscilla Alexander, sex worker activist
I have read lots of stories by sex workers describing their lives. The common thing they all say is do not glamorize the life. It's work that is hard and dangerous at times.
I read The Happy Hooker in the 1970s then I saw the movie Pretty Woman in 1991. After that, I met real street walkers because I was a young guy experimenting on the edges of life. What a contrast.
Women in the sex trade are viewed at different extremes by everyone including the women themselves. Some, like the radical feminists and the religious right, say it's sexual slavery and demeaning towards women, a reflection of a society where men are dominant and use women to serve their sexual ends with a sense of entitlement.
Others, like the liberal feminists and many of the women actually in the sex business, like the work and say it's freeing because they're in control of their own destiny while doing a positive service by helping men in the sex department and often in the mental health department as many of them say, acting as counselors to a bunch of lonely, stressed-out tense men who happen to be successful enough to hire a hooker.
Sex workers themselves say that all consenting sex between adults is good even if it is for pay. It doesn't matter. It's consenting. Society should get off this judgmental kick and leave people alone who want to sell sexual services.
It doesn't matter how kinky or offbeat it is, if people want to do it consentingly, that's their business, nobody else's.
In society in general, apart from the few glamorous ways whores are portrayed in silly movies, most of the people see them as victims of life, poor, stupid, weak people brought up on the wrong side of the tracks, probably were sexually abused as kids, are now hooked on drugs doing the only thing they can do to survive, sell their bodies.
Most people are blissfully ignorant about the actual life of a sex worker but they believe that the girl or guy would rather be somewhere else.
They simply can't fathom that normal, well-
adjusted people would choose this profession for any of a variety of reasons.
It could be fun for them, at least for awhile. They like the creative aspect of it as with stripping. They don't have to work a regular job or don't have the constitution to. They need the money. They have an expensive hobby like cocaine. They like the temporary power of being desired by men. They're artists who have to support their lifestyle.
Radical feminists see all sex work as demeaning to women. Liberal feminists see sex work as a source of power where the women have some power over men and get paid for it.
In any case, two issues are generally true:
Because of the stigma society gives to sex workers, many of them, even if they're proud of what they do, lie about it and cover it up to their mainstream friends and relatives.
It is still illegal in some of our western cultures which is silly in the first place for supposedly free countries to have laws regarding something consenting adults do but this is another problem these people face, worrying about getting busted for earning an honest living, providing a service for their pay cheque.
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