id: 599914 - Text: I'm a former sex worker of 8 years, who now helps women with low self worth heal. Unless you have experience in the life, and in getting out, experience in psychology helping people on this level, have been through a similar emotional hell and pulled yourself up - don't. You cannot help someone who you do not understand and who does not want help. The reason I say this is because people who are successful at getting themselves out WANT to, and THAT is the only way you can help them - by recognizing their desire to get out and help them.
id: 599921 - Text: Legalize sex work so it’s not an illegal trade.
id: 599925 - Text: Sex work should be accepted in society. They should be registered and get health checks etc
id: 599957 - Text: @MrsLovettPie I hope your child will be kidnapped one day and sex trafficked.
id: 600152 - Text: The only reason this business thrives is because there are men who pay to have sex with children. Period.
id: 600159 - Text: I once hired on as a driver at a large brothel in town. The girls were from all walks of life. Girls from overseas on a hitchhiking vacation, often replenish their funds from brothel work. Because prostitution is a legal enterprise in my country prostitutes have their own trade union (a collective). Because of this the staff worked under the full protection of the country's laws. Pimping, offering sex for money on behalf of a third party is though, illegal. If a customer misbehaves and can't be adjusted by the staff, then the Police are called and an arrest made.
There are also freelance workers operating from apartments in the city and suburbs. These advertise on the Internet. Prostitutes can work out of nightclubs and bars, where upstairs there are bedrooms.
As a support worker, the life can be exhausting and hard especially over long holiday weekends, Christmas and New Year are murderous. The work was endless and cat napping in one of the rooms was all the rest I got. Eventually the job became too much as the work demanded more and more out of me. I was the lowest in the outfits pecking order. As a retiree the staff were safe from me hitting on them and they hitting on me. The girls and the bar is where the money is made.
Going thirty-six hours without sleep was not uncommon and I was also supposed to make sure all went well and the staff were supported. But eventually it all became too much: long hours, little sleep, the demands of the job for little money, I had enough so quit on the spot. My recovery time from exhaustion was a bit under three weeks, but when it came, there was a feeling of a great weight being lifted from me. This is common for many night time shift workers.
id: 600203 - Text: As a run away at 3rd grade, I feel this woman's words. Never ws sexualy abused but this hits home...
id: 600215 - Text: What if someone started a non profit that used verified and vetted volunteers as protection for sex workers? Not outreach or trying to “save” them.
Just literally offer protection while they work and not take their fucking money. Put pimps out of a job. Train them to use firearms correctly, train them with hand to hand techniques.
id: 600216 - Text: The pimp branded her fucking face. Wtf. I want to end these people. We need to legalize sex work….this is fucking insane.
id: 600337 - Text: Being young and pretty just means you’re a good money maker which in turn makes it harder to get away from a bad pimp or sitter, at the other end if you work alone you have to watch out for other girls and pimps who’ll bash you for taking their tricks specially if you’re young and pretty, I mean “who wants an ugly old hoe” when someone like this is in sight. I’ve known and worked with a few girls, some only just of age and some mature aged (theirs quite a large demand for what people call MILF’s) as well as trans hookers, I’ve also known gay young men in the game: one of my pre op trans friends had a few wealthy older men who were regulars, one was a very well known and very public person who would hire a biological female so he could watch my trans friend with them (he never got involved) My friend had enough regulars to not bother with anyone else but she (I naturally call trans people what they look like and always have) still ran a few adds that brought in randoms that she said were mostly just for fun but they still paid... she worked alone and never had any really bad issues but in saying that there was always someone like me around (we were friends full stop, most of the time we went clubbing together and as hot as she was there wasn’t any chemistry there from my end) She made between $4k and $7k a week, lived in an expensive unit or condo if you prefer right in the middle of Kings Cross in Sydney Australia, the whole lifestyle suited her at the time as did most of the working people I knew, now almost 20 years later my friend as well as the few I’m still in contact with have straight jobs and are as happy with their lives as anyone... Its always been a mystery to me as to why the gay world for sex workers is safer and works fairer than than the straight world, it wasn’t always so but it definitely was once.