Prostitution and Child Support

[tesscaline]

So what ?

It matters, to me and many other people if a child is sexually exploited and eventually ends up in the sex trade industry. It really does matter a lot.

It also matters if a human being with a mental disability or drug addiction is exploited by uncaring members of society who think nothing of the additional harm inflicted upon that human being simply to gratify a sexual urge.

It makes me very sad to think of human beings being degraded and utilized without a thought to their self and dignity, and sad to think of people in society who regard the sexual use of these human beings as justifiable and voluntary.

There is a hundred times more value and pride to be found flipping burgers than can ever be found from giving a blow job to a slob for 20 bucks.

It hurts me just to think about the question of whether or not this should matter. And if that burger flipper had been sexually abused as a child then it would matter much more that he/she was not being revictimized in the sex trade industry.

Personally, I find it degrading, insulting, and offensive when people insinuate that I am nothing but a helpless victim simply because I've worked in the sex industry.

I find it even more degrading, insulting, and offensive, when those same people insinuate that I don't/didn't have the free will to decide whether or not to participate in said sex industry.

I was not forced into doing the things I did when I participated in the sex industry. No one exploited or "used" me. Everything I did was one hundred percent voluntary and involved no coercion. I did not feel degraded in the least. In fact, quite the opposite.

The person doing the degrading here is you, Roma, and people like you who make those people who work (or have worked) in the sex industry out to be pathetic victims with no free will who need to be pitied.

And you make it out like the rest of the working world is better some how? Really? My time in the sex industry was the only "job" (if you can even call something you enjoyed that much a job) that I actually felt appreciated in. It's the jobs I had in other industries (the food industry, finance, business, academia) that I felt degraded, belittled, and victimized in. Not the sex industry.

 

[arthwollipot]

I have never met or heard of a prostitute who came from a position of financial and educational strength to pursue a job in the sex trade industry.

I personally know of at least one. She advised me at the time that she worked with others.