Bullshit
In honor of another new addiction of mine, Penn & Teller’s Bullshit, I am introducing a new category of posts. This category will be devoted to the stupidest, most nonsensical crap that I hear people saying every day.
Today’s bullshit is that classic gem which concerned (i.e. white, middle-class, religious) folks are always using to try and convince women to avoid sex work: “don’t you realize you’re worth more than that?”
Bullshit. More than bullshit, it’s bull-fucking-shit. Say you’re a young woman with minimal education and no connections. Your choices? A just-barely-above minimum wage job in a lovely establishment like Wal-Mart or some such, where the customers are reliably obnoxious and managment considers you a wholly expendable cog in the machinery? A service-sector job like housecleaning maybe, something with a little less in the way of employer/customer crapola but even more physically gruelling and every bit as low paying? (Have you ever tried making beds & scrubbing toilets for a living? I have - it wears your body out fast.) Or you can go to work for somebody like Joe Redner down at the Mons Venus, making as much money in a few nights as you would in a whole month at one of the other jobs available to you. Putting up with a lot of crap, but, I repeat, making ten times the money.
Stripping, hooking etc for a living has it’s downside to be sure, but it seems to me (and to many, many others) that the shit you have to put up with to amount you earn ratio is pretty damn good. And anybody who can’t comprehend this reality is, IMO, either a complete idiot or has never worked at the kind of crap job most people are condemned to. The disingenuous exhortation ”you’re worth more than that!” can be roughly translated as follows: “ *I* believe whores are worthless scum, and I would rather have you sell yourself even more cheaply to a big corporation than examine just why it is that I find sex so dangerous and disgusting.”
Hey Cherie!!! Love the new pic on your index page
So cute!!!! And that photo above, yum yum!
Anyways as to why this country is so freaked out about sex jobs; sheesh girl, what is this country not freaked out about. We live in a country that finds breastfeeding to be obscene but has no problem whatsoever with Maxim and FHM on the newsstands. (You know breastfeeding is on my mind right now!)
Anyways, as a whore on hiatus I can tell you that I had a blast. I mean, what woman wouldn’t feel good to know that a man would spend x amount of money just to be with you? How is that NOT good for your ego??? I did have a few duds, no doubt… but the majority of my guys were lots of fun.
I am missing them now, too.. pregnancy is making me HORNY! And my poor husband is busy busy and cannot keep up with me
Keep up the great work!
Comment by Tamara — July 17, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Talk about freaked out…I cannot comprehend how ANYBODY could be offended by that baby magazine cover, the one with the breastfeeding pic? I’m sure you’ve seen the news reports about it.
Also, I came across a very interesting blog recently (at escortblogs.net), written by a post-op TS escort who (I am guessing) had the operation(s) done in Thailand. She said that having seen both she’d rather be a bar girl in Thailand than work at a Wal-Mart in the US. Talk about a feeling of vindication for me - the masses of Asian sex workers are allegedly some of the most dreadfully abused women in the world! I’m gonna put a link to her up here if I can find it again, just haven’t had a chance to look. :-p
Comment by cherie — August 10, 2006 @ 9:12 am