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No harm, no foul.  She tried it & it wasn't for her.  She should get out & do something she likes.

I can see how many women would be sickened by the whole thing, but those aren't the women I see, nor do I suppose those are the women that 99% of other TER members see.

I've seen many strippers have the same reaction to get naked and dancing on a pole in front of a bunch of horny, yelling, screaming strange men. I suppose if it were that easy, all women would be doing it.

Just like Sales isn't for everyone !

and it seems like the jobs with the highest potential rewards are the ones that "aren't for everyone" aint life grand?

I've told plenty to do what I do. They shoot back quickly with the most absurd responses. "I'm not a pretty girl with boobs", or "I can't expletive an ugly girl". From both sides of the coin comes reasons why they can't. After my eyes un-cross and I try and shake the stupid out of my head I explain to them what it is that I do and have done. You need to apply yourself, there's something for everyone. The cop outs make me laugh, the unwillingness to even try, yet judge is what floors me. It's why the majority will never get beyond a menial job! Successful people have failed the most but at least they had the balls and tenacity to at least try and do so until they get it right!

I will agree she is in the wrong business if this is how she feels.

but people who don't even try and then have the balls to criticize those that do get nothing but contempt from me.

I have jealous people tell me all the time how easy I have it and how "lucky" I am, they have no idea how many times I have to fall on my face before finally making it.

and TER is proof positive that you don't have to be nunway model material to be a successful hooker,  but you DO have to have so much more to actually be successful as a hooker. Just look at how many girls try and fail. I will go back to my original statement, if it were that easy, every girl would do it and there would be no money in it.

I mean, here's a gal that has had to hump a bunch of smelly, ugly guys and has probably had more than a few close encounters with their bodily fluids - and it's their descriptions of her body in a review that she finds time to carp about?  Give me a break.

But, if you really want to have a good excuse to bitch about a job that will make you sick, go take a job in a sausage factory*, then write about that.



*Or take a job on Capitol Hill, that'll work too.

Sounds like one of those where they start with true things, but then spin an elaborate tale. I really don't like the implication  that clients are by and large rapists. This sentence:

Sounds like an assertion based on no facts, just the writer's opinion.   No wonder "journalists" are held in such low regard.

What's tricky is that they can loosely base what they say on facts (undeniably there are providers who have been forced or coerced), yet lead people to a false conclusion (that this is the norm). It's more sophisticated and calculated than an average idiot asserting an unfounded opinion. Once a narrative has been built up this way, it tends to be self perpetuating. I too used to think that all sex workers were being exploited and abused, even though I don't remember ever being explicitly taught so. Modern mass media has a scary amount of influence over the mind.

Link anyone, or a hint where to find it?

Steph xoxo

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Why is it so hard for some peeps here to wrap their heads around the ugly side of this biz?

Is it always like this-hell no! Does this kind of scenario happen-yes it does.

Steph xoxo

The problem is that the ugly side is the only side ever presented. It wouldn't be good for society to condemned education, because there are some schools in terrible condition. Of course those should be exposed, but it is a real problem if people believe that the worst is representative of the institution itself. Such is the case for prostitution, and I think that by continuing to promote hatred and bigotry toward the entire profession, it makes cases like this woman's more likely. The "seedy underbelly" has been created and is perpetuated by the society that condemns it the loudest.  

This is the way the anti-sex league wants to portrait the average "hooker" - a mess; someone not in control of her life; hating herself for what she does, etc... It is part of the effort to control women and exorcise their control over their own bodies (like letting Hobby Lobby tell them what birth control they can use ).
Don't believe a fucking word of it.

Thanks for having a brain and identifying the poor attempt at swaying the public perception of hookerdom. Looks like some gullible folks swallowed the canard.

I can't remember the name of it but there's some kind documentary type show done that included ladies right here on TER. It's been awhile since I searched for it. But not everything they had to say was all peachy either.

Steph xoxo