I also think whilst I think women like LouiseKay and others such as Laura Lee and Charlotte Rose do a great job in portraying sex workers as hard workers who enjoy their job they are in a tricky position to talk about the negatives such as stinky men, boundary pushers, being ripped off and times when they may have felt scared and vulnerable because that plays into the hands of the antis....
That's because the best argument in favour of us is nothing to do with morals or enjoying the job. First and foremost the conversation should be about which legal models regard our safety the highest. Once we're as protected as we can be by the law, then I might sit around to listen to sex workers talk about how great our job is. Somehow I don't see minimum wage care workers or cleaners having to justify the existence of their jobs because they adore them so much. It's not about whether we like it or not. It's about if we're safe. I wish documentary makers would get their heads around that.
You're not wrong, of course safety is the most important thing, but I think that enjoying it is an aspect that needs to be put out there to a degree. So many people believe that no woman could possibly choose to have sex with strange men so therefore it must be wrong and should be banned so I think sex workers who do enjoy it, are not screwed up by having sex with multiple men and who do not feel violated by it play a part in changing minds.
I do also agree that it is frustrating that we need to justify it in comparison to other jobs- personally I could never work with children but I wouldn't go around saying How could anyone choose to work with snotty nosed, noisy, smelly little brats or critisise those who chose to do it in the same way people refer to our work as working with stinky, desperate horrible men.
It's all part of the whole package in changing the sex working laws.
My original point, which I probably didn't articulate especially well is that I think it's hard for those 'out' escorts to talk roundly about the job because any negative is leaped on as a reason why it is so bad.
I'd be interested to know if LouiseKay felt she had to be totally positive when she was filmed so as not to let any 'bad' stuff override what appears to be a really positive experience in the trade for her.