Your comment reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine makes fun of a woman she works with and gets accused of being catty. It escalates to physical threats but the police only respond to her complaint with “rawrr” and “cat fight”. Would it have been better for you if two men were together bashing a woman? Or two women against one man? Women can disagree with other women and it doesn’t immediately have to be bitchy, especially because they even backed up their issues with the book with actual quotes.

I don’t think this had anything to do with saying that this Holly woman doesn’t ‘qualify’ as a sex-worker, it’s more that she is a bad one, which is also backed up by the book. If you are concerned with sex workers uniting perhaps you should think about how you want the industry portrayed to the wider public. I don’t want Holly to represent sex workers of any kind, she engages in dangerous sexual activities, she regularly has sex with a guy who admitted he never intended on paying her, she is barely able to pay her bills and has absolutely no boundaries. If a client or sugardaddy reads this book the only takeaway is that you can bully some girls into doing whatever you want. Sometimes with little bullying at all!

I take my business and safety seriously, and I am constantly worrying about how this industry is portrayed. If people can write nonsense that ends up in the mainstream and remains unchallenged, then that’s all the outside world hears about us.

I laughed out loud, at my cubicle, no less than 6 times while reading this post, I couldn’t agree more, I saw a picture of the woman in a Marie Claire and she’s gorgeous for her age but DELUSIONAL AS FUCK. My favorite was how she tried to jump on the “it’s EMPOWERING” bandwagon, like women doing pole dance classes while still judging strippers. What is so “empowering” about pissing away all your ill gotten money when you know there’s a 99% change your latest sponsor will ditch you without courtesy and you’ll be paying your mortgage late fee yet again, cause you had to have your gourmet cheese, overpriced wine and designer fashion???

I resent the implication that it’s not okay for experienced women to talk about the misogyny involved in de-valuing that experience, while purposefully distancing oneself from that experience, all the while clearly NEEDING that fucking experience. Plus I disagree that this article went on too long; it was funny and smart the whle fucking way through, and *I’m* a little bored and tired of “TL;DR”‘s coming from people who have nothing to add other than “I *guess* this didn’t entirely suck but you’re not as funny or smart as you think you are.”

Yes, in this case, yes they really are.