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I think that one of the hardest things that sex workers today face is that if they are out at all…and if they are proud at all, there’s such a burden to have to all the time be like, ‘No, I do sex work and it’s great and let me tell you why,’ to change people’s perceptions. And the fact is that it’s not great all the time, a lot of the time it sucks, because it’s a job and they all suck. And all service industry jobs are basically the same- you get clients that are rude or smelly, or distasteful in whatever ways, and you know, it’s like anything else. I know I don’t feel comfortable talking about that to other non-sex worker people, like shitty clients that I had, or times when I felt like I did the totally wrong thing, or times when I was really scared or times when I was just like, ‘Ugh, I so don’t want to go to work,’ or whatever it is. The fact is that it’s just like anything else, but like when there’s so much against you, you’ve got to be like, ‘No no no no no, it’s rad, all the time.’ And I think that’s hard.
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Penny from ‘Survey Says: Job Satisfaction?’ by Alexandra Lutnick (via katstories) (via melissa)
The way this manifests in media is the empowerment vs degration binary - how do we come up with a better soundbite to deal with this? Saying I felt empowered by my time in the sex industry isn’t 100% true. Neither is the “opposite” - because these two things aren’t in opposition at all in my mind.
