I Am A Prostitute With Opinions
I
am a prostitute. I am a prostitute with a mind an opinions. Deal with
it. Why on earth do people have the impression that everyone in the
sex industry is an alcoholic drug addict who is forced into the work
by the modern equivalent of white slave traders that used to feature
in Agatha Christie novels? By the way, I love the way the emphasis on
white slave traders, as though trading black slaves was not
evil. How things change! Are there people out there who have been
forced to work by people? Yes, absolutely. A lot of the African
street girls I see in places like Ibiza and most Italian cities are
working to pay off their fees to the people who smuggled them into
Europe. Likewise, lots of the Chinese and Vietnamese girls working in
massage parlours are paying off the “snake heads” who brought
them to Europe. But like Misha Glenny says in his book McMafia, most
people who are smuggled into Europe or North America by these people
do not actually see them as evil. Most people are just glad to have a
chance – once they have paid their debt – to have money to send
back to their families and build a better future. I know it is
incomprehensible to most people who have been born in freedom, but
there it is.
What
most people refuse to recognize is that in the scheme of things, only
a very small percentage of
women working in the sex business are
streetwalkers or work in brothels. The vast majority of us work
independently. We advertise in the local newspapers, through Backpage
and the people who copy it, through escort malls (Directories) such
as Eurogirls and some of us choose to be represented (not managed or
run!) by escort agencies such as Classic Courtesans in London. We set our own rates.
Generally, unless the agency is really good (and they are, by the
way) we will work less and less with them once we are established in
a town and build our own client list.
We
set our own hours. We can accept work or say no to it. We can stop
working with an agency when we like. We pay our taxes – well, I do
anyway. We try to stay away from drugs. Many of us have boyfriends or
husbands. A lot of us have children. Basically, we run our own
businesses. We have been here forever and we are going to stay.
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