Would you equate sex work with any other work? In terms of the impact on your body/ emotions/ spirituality.
Or is it just me - because of my unfortunate background, that I see it as essentially abusive?
Well I think that it proves the point I was trying to make about punters - we all have different views on, reasons for and experiences of doing sex work and because of that, trying to broadbrush us as being the same just doesn't work and demeans us all. Some/many people are not going to be the ones who 'fit' whatever the agenda is of whoever is trying to make a point, and to try and get round this by saying that their points are less valid than others as examples of sex workers is disingenuous, lazy and simplistic.
I wouldn't equate sex work with working for an employer because being self employed is not the same. I would equate it to offering any other service as a self employed person, because that is what I do. In terms of impact my body and mental state are n the best shape they've ever been in my adult life, because I can eat decent food, rest/work/not work when I like, afford a gym membership at our new sports centre and live in a lovely flat that I can heat properly without worrying about the bills.
I have disliked every civvy job I've ever had for one reason or another, and the only exceptions to that were the ones I out and out hated instead - I used to work twelve hour rotating shifts on my feet in a factory and that was one of the jobs I liked better. Rolling about with random blokes for a handful of hours a week and being paid a relative fortune for it is a piece of piss compared working three part time jobs at once for a pittance and getting four hours sleep a night if I was lucky.
As for the spirituality, I was born on a scheme in Edinburgh and grew up on a council estate in the north east of England, so it's fair to say that in the forty five years I've been alive I don't think it's a word that's ever crossed my mind
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