Everyone is commenting about how exhausting it is. It sure is. But this is how oppressed groups proceed. They never give up. We won’t either.

Sex work is not making a living from “being attractive to other people.” There are plenty of average looking or even ugly (according to the eye of the beholder) sex workers. We’re not models (and btw, fashion industry models don’t rest on their appearance either–they work hard.) Sex work is about selling a specific sort of sexual service/fantasy to a person. It’s about creating a rapport, using your imagination to fill in the blanks of someone’s fantasy, being sexy (which is more work-intensive and more of an ACTIVITY than simply being “attractive”), providing a service, making the client feel nurtured and desirable, etc., depending on what kind of sex work it is. As a very average looking sex worker, I can attest to that. It’s not based on the privilege of being heteronormatively attractive, although certainly workers who possess that advantage earn more.

And many of us are anti-capitalist sex workers here, which means we much prefer being self-employed and not exploiting someone else’s labor–something that’s much easier to do in sex work than in corporate sales.

New point: I think you are all extremely fortunate to be good looking enough to make a living from being attractive to other people. I wonder if you’d had different opportunities along the way, would you not have made as much if not more money in sales or as corporate executives.

Decriminalization and consultation works. No one ever wants to bring up New Zealand or even Australia in discussions of abolition, because they are success stories of what happens with consultation and decriminalization