Personally I think the news is referring to the street walkers when they say that statement was made.  I think that most well reviewed girls either have another job or are educated enough to get another job should they so choose.  But I could be wrong

~Jen

Is Social Services going to to anything to help these ladies find anything better?

I think most could find a good straight job and be very successful at it.  Many of the organizational skills of managing their provider business, are the same useful abilities needed to run a successful business.  But few careers offer the same financial rewards and freedom as being a professional provider.  

Ladies please correct me if I am wrong.

When you love what you do and are passionate about your choice, it shines through.

Jen is a fine example of this; as are the rest of the ladies I have played checkers with.

Yeah, it is same old puritanical rant. I put a quote from the article below.  What is really funny is this is true of the way I feel about my own job:  I often do things I don't like, have to deal cordially with people I don't really care for, and at the end of a day often feel ashamed by the career choice and degraded by my peers and those above me.  

Hmmm... but the I need the money.  I keep it going.  Don't feel bad for me, there are good and bad days and if I am lucky I shield the kids from work and enjoy my free time....  Maybe the officers will come crack down on the workplace and liberate me.... liberate all those who feel trapped by their occupation and spending choices.

Here is the cliched quote.
"They found the business degrading and shameful, but needed the money. And they, too, had tried to quit."

While this may be true for women on the street and women pimped out, it would be logical to infer then that sites purported to allow a woman or man to advertise companionship (and thus take out the middle man and the element of the coercion) would go a long way toward ending the sense of obligation to the profession.

Here is the other common myth: most people in the business were in some way abused.  Well statistically, there is some evidence to back a bit of the claim.  However I recall a recent survey that said at least 1 in 5 women have been sexually abused in some fashion in their lifetimes. Given that average, maybe the paper should run a report on abuse, rather than prostitution.  After all, that would mean that a good percentage of women entering the law enforcement field and legal profession were abused.

Re: It amuses me

I kind of questioned that statement as well.

But, I do know: I LUV my job!

Xoxo,
Amber

I remember reading that also.  I think they have to put that in to justify the time an money they spent over the last year working on the bust.  There not going to quote the girl who says i make $100K a year doing this and love it.  Plus it helps justify f..ing up the lives of the successful businessmen who were seeing these girls.  They spent all this time and money and ruined people lives to "save" the girls. It really does kind of tug at your heart strings.

It's a funny story: I was such a bad kid in high school. Shitty grades, skipped school all the time, drank a lot, you know, the usual dumb kid stuff. But I went to a school in the outer 'burbs with a ton of really good kids (my class had 9 valedictorians!!) So compared to them I was extra bad. Of course I still had areas I excelled at, like art and writing, but of course those were overlooked.

The guidance counselor was partial to the overachievers, and he just hated me, and the feeling was mutual. He actually called me "Little Miss Passive-Aggressive" once. I remember him telling me, my senior year, that since my grades weren't good enough to get into college, and since I didn't seem to have any "real skills", I ought to look into factory work. He suggested I get a job at the local refrigerator manufacturing plant!

Hahaha! If only he could see me now, with a 4.0 in school, and making more money a week than he probably does a month, and totally loving my job! Here's to you, Mister B!