Perseus wrote:
SallyShortyPnts wrote:
Thank you for posting. Anonymous trifellow sounds more like one of the johns than someone who would actually be helping these unfortunate women.
NO woman says "Gee, now that I've graduated Harvard Summa Cum Laude, I'll go be a prostitute instead.
Give me a break here; having sex with unattractive, smelly, dirty, overweight men in kinky, painful positions is not a glamour job that women aspire to.
It kills me the way some ignorant people act like these woman had a lot of opportunities in front of them and simply chose prostitution.
Do people think these women were at career day and thinking 'I could be a teacher, a doctor, or a secretary, but my real passion is jacking men off'? I doubt they look at it that way. Having a couple friends who strip, they certainly do look at it as a hell of a lot more $$$ for their time spent than a 'square' job, w/ no taxes (although they pay whatever cut to the house, I dunno the details on that), and it doesn't take years of schooling or a degree ~ audition Monday, start taking home cash on Tuesday. That's also not to say that some of them don't look at it as a temporary means towards a career in education or medicine, either. It's not "Gee, I graduated from Harvard, now I'll go be a prostitute instead"; more like, I'll strip for a couple years, and then "Woo Hoo, I just finished my degree and no fucking student loans to pay off like all my uptight friends are always complaining about!"
I get the drawbacks, and certainly for some girls due to educational/family background they do have far fewer options, but one size doesn't fit all here just like most other lines of work. As for the "unattractive, smelly, dirty, overweight men"... The gals I know who do that stuff can pretty much pick & choose ~ if they find a potential customer too unappealing (regardless of whether it be looks, grooming, attitude, or whatever), they're free to not take his money and just wait/move on to the next guy. Of course, they can also lower their standards accordingly on a slow night if they decide the $$ is worth the trade-off. Different gals can draw that line for themselves as they see fit ~ not so unlike on the 'legit' side of the street where better-looking gals (and guys) typically have more appealing choices available to them, too. I've no doubt there are lower-budget clubs where the girls have far less clout (and the Orchid parlor sounds like one of them), but the critics here seem to suggest that represents the entire spectrum of sex work. You should talk to a gal who's chosen to do it because they felt like it was a net benefit to them (especially as a side gig to a 'real' job that pays shit) and not assume that they're all powerless and exploited.