Rachel Moran describes some of the ‘qualifications’ necessary in sex work prostitution.
“If we accept prostitution as ordinary work, then we should be able to speak about what the skills of prostitution are….
The ability to control your reflex to vomit.
The ability to restrain your urge to cry.
The ability to imagine your current reality is not happening.These are the skill sets of prostitution. These are the skill sets necessary to perform what some people would like to see normalized as ‘sex work’.”
-From Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran, p 224-225
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November 12, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Brachina
That’s the skill sets for alot of jobs, I had jobs cleaning garbage where I had to fight back the urge to vomit, where the stench was bad enough to cry, and where I was wishing I was anywhere, but there.
I’ve also had landscaping jobs, snow shoveling jobs, ect… with those requirements.
And those requirements in sex work are hardly universal, many sex workers don’t have that sort experience, your reducing thier collective experiences to a sterotype. Not all have the urge to cry,vomit, ect…
Some enjoy it, most see it as a job and a preferable one to most of the alternatives.
The real requirements.
People skills, including listening.
A reasonably level of fitness.
Comfort with physical contact with strangers.
Marketing skills a plus, especially if one self employs.
Strong social media skills an asset.
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November 12, 2015 at 3:32 pm
carmen
@Brachina –
One can assume you speak from experience; is that correct?
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November 14, 2015 at 11:56 am
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@carmen
You’ll have to forgive Brachina, they seem to think that prostitution is somehow glamorous – a la Pretty Woman – and base their arguments on that rather than the realities of what prostitution actually is and the damage it causes to most who participate in it.
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November 14, 2015 at 12:08 pm
carmen
Well, Arb. In my opinion, forgiveness is a religious word which I don’t use. I couldn’t even excuse Brachina if they were speaking from experience; anyone who knows anything at all about prostitution knows that it is, as Rachel Moran asserts, commercialized sexual abuse.
That list of ‘requirements’ Brachina included at the end I could really pick apart, point by point, but Ms. Moran’s blog does a far more eloquent job of enlightening the ignorant. I suggest they (I strongly suspect ‘they is a ‘he’) take themselves there so they can get a strong dose of the truth, as opposed to the fantasy they’re living in.
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November 14, 2015 at 1:03 pm
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@carmen
Well said. :)
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