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Trading sex for money and drugs: what it’s like to be a street prostitute The hard lives of street prostitutes are very different from our idealized images of 'high-class' call girls.
When you say the word “hooker,” the image that comes to most people’s minds is a white girl like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman or the highly paid call girl in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, the former New York governor. She may have made a few wrong moves in her life but she’s likeable with a heart of gold and will straighten out if given a second chance. We don’t necessarily forgive her for accepting extra money for her “favors” but we understand it. The story is very different for survival prostitutes who work the streets and get in cars because of drug habits. Their lives are less Pretty Woman…
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All sex workers should be armed It could be the only thing saving you from the psychos.
Guns have been in the news a lot lately. Instead of taking up the political discussion, and I do have lots of opinions on the subject, I thought I’d share a sex worker experience. During my first year of working the phones I had a caller try to scare me. I didn’t realize this at first. We talked about his fantasy for awhile and it seemed like a typical call. But he slowly navigated the conversation to questions about my personal life. While I didn’t tell him anything too private I did tell him some things — the town I lived in, the kind of car I drove, what I…
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When the sex work client looks like a relative I met my phone client IRL and almost puked my guts out.
I had been talking dirty on the phone over a year when I had my first in-person session. My first client had a foot fetish. We had been talking for months and he desperately wanted to meet. During our calls he obsessed over my feet so I nicknamed him Foot Slut. Despite living several states away he eagerly agreed to pay not only my session rate but my travel expenses as well. My husband and I decided to rent a car and turn the trip into a mini-vacation. Not having experience with in-persons I quizzed sex worker friends to come up with a price and protocol. FS happily sent a…
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My simp dumped me because I wouldn’t do him for free I even got a Dear Mistress email.
I’m a sex worker and I can’t get over the way I’ve been dumped by my client. I even got a Dear Mistress email. Here’s a snippet: i felt if You wanted to have a relationship with me, even just as a slave ( as it would have been) that You would have spoken to me at least once in awhile. i tried very very hard to please You. i am really sorry it did not work out for us, as You are also a very precious person. If there is anything i can ever do for You, please let me know. This really hurts. Please don’t be upset. All…