still one of my favorite bits i ever got to commit was pretending not to know who jesus is when a street preacher was evangelizing to me. he was like “do you know who jesus is?” and i had so much time before my next bus and i wanted to know what would happen so i said no. and you know what. he had clearly never been told no to that question before because if i hadn’t actually known who jesus was, his baffled and fumbling attempt sure wouldn’t have told me. literally reversed the roles. now you get to stand here feeling very uncomfortable and wishing you could be somewhere else because guess what buddy, this is my bus stop, im early (and can catch like five other buses from this exact stop), and im now thoroughly invested in hearing about this mysterious jesus figure. you’re locked in here with me. im eating the key as we speak. i will kill us both before i let you out of here.
very highly recommend this bit if you can pull it off and if you have time to kill
As a sex worker, there are a few things in here that arenāt always true.
Not all clients realize the worker is not into them. They may think the money is just the catalyst but that the sw wouldnāt be doing it unless the attraction was there.
Boundaries are important to establish when engaging in this work. It may be different for men and women in this field, but when someone hires you they donāt have the right nor ability to do whatever they want to and with you. What happens is meant to be agreed upon beforehand, in act and price, with specific things off-limits. Anything else is dangerous, although that is often the unfortunate reality.
Many people who hire sex workers do actually see the work as work and respect it as a profession, meaning you, the worker, are a professional - not an object. Anyone that says a sex worker is an object is degrading and disrespecting the work, including workers who do this.
The access also is reliant on the agreed-upon rules being followed and payment being exchanged, which happens part beforehand in some cases to ensure the client wonāt stiff the worker and the worker wonāt take the money and run bc it isnāt paid in full.
Sex work is work, and there are ways to do it more safely but decriminalizing it is the best way to protect sex workers.
none of what youāve said contradicts the oprignal post (a lot of it has nothing at all to do with what she was saying) and Iām being reductive here but your comment essentially boils down to ānot all johnsā. sure some sex buyers respect the workers and their boundaries. many do not.
whether or not āsex work is workā isnāt the issue here.
The original post says that clients think a certain way and have a certain perspective, and that perspective leads directly to not seeing sex work as actual work from both perspectives. Saying that the worker is in the palm of his hand takes away the swās control, and saying that the client knows everything (which I very directly contradicted in my many comments) just isnāt true in most cases.
There are many issues here, and much of it boils down to the fact that sex work is work and should be treated as such. Seeing it as a scam means seeing it as illegal and NOT legitimate work.
I also related everything I said to specific points in the original text, and if you go sentence by sentence and look at the topic of each paragraph of my response youāll see clear connections. For example: āNot all clients realize the worker is not into themā directly related to āhe knows you donāt really want himā, and āyou donāt have the control you think you haveā is addressed by āThe access also is reliant on the agreed-upon rules being followed.ā I didnāt hold your hand to directly relate every little thing to the original text but thatās what context clues are for.
The original post makes gross generalizations about sex work when specifically talking about people that think of it like scamming, which is reducing the work to theft and only describing people who donāt treat the work professionally. I brought in specifics about engaging in sw safely, actually addressing the fact that no one situation will apply to all circumstances.
It all is about seeing sex work as legitimate work, and your response to me, a sex worker, relating a post about sex workers engaging with the work in an unsafe way to the reality of safe sex work, is to say that Iām making an unrelated point based on less-common circumstances. I urge you to use more critical thinking about what Iāve said and about your perspectives on sex work before you throw your opinions at other people, because you were not only incredibly reductive but also incorrect about how what I said related to the original post and to sex work.
if you set off a rube goldberg type death trap to kill someone, if itās a long enough machine, it ceases to become your fault if somebody dies at the end. thatās how Iāve gotten away with it all these years, and why Iām still going to heaven.
You are granted a time machine and the ability to prevent one birth (or commit a murder up to you), donāt worry about the butterfly effect, we want the butterfly effect thatās part of the point. Your actions will prevent them from ever rising to prominence. No heās not here, because itād be too much of a sweep, pick your second choice if youāre wondering where he is
my dark twisted secret is i always use my turn signals whenever possible because i believe they were included in vehicles for a reason. iām a bit of a freak this way. a weirdo
many funny and true things going on in the notes. but also
