From the Huffington Post:
Sex Workers Getting F*cked by Limp Economy
“There is a wicked myth that has resurfaced with this impotent economy. The sex industry, I heard a blowhard exclaim, is bulletproof, no matter how hard times are, there’s always men who are harder. Everyone laughed. Everyone except me. Because I know differently. Sex workers have been hit below the belt, and they’ve been hit hard. High-end and low-end, all of my ho, hooker, callgirl and rentboy friends are suffering. And since they work in an industry that’s stuck in the era of Prohibition, they are not entitled to any of the protection normal citizens take for granted, like unemployment benefits, severance payments when they lose their jobs, and health care. But I believe we can learn a great deal from them, because most of them are resourceful, hard working survivors, and they have not given up on the American dream. They’re trading services and bartering, slashing expenses, evolving themselves and their businesses to suit these desperate times. And they’re working the most important bone any sex worker has access to: the funny bone.”
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The author then quotes a sex worker friend cracking a joke about hard times.
While I appreciate Sterry pointing out that a bad economy affects sex workers too I’m still annoyed by his overuse of puns. The article would have been much better without the “impotent economy” and “sex workers have been hit below the belt” bits.
Pointing out that sex work is work sounds so simple but not everyone gets that. I’m happy that people are writing about sex work in a realistic way. This article is certainly better than the Fox article about the “growing” trend of vanilla dominatrixes. I wrote about that over on the $pread blog.
Posted by Vixen as News at 11:35 PM CDT