Posted on 06/23/2009 9:30:59 PM PDT by Steelfish
Going down in the downturn
More women are turning to sex work in a bad economy. Does it beat working at McDonald's?
Tracy Clark-Flory
June 22, 2009 | Castro Valley, Calif. -- "Boob play," "pics of kitty," "topless housecleaning" and "hypno role play." The list, scribbled in a lined yellow notebook, is followed by a double-underlined figure: $725.
It's 9 a.m. on a Friday and 30-year-old Marie is sitting on her couch clad in Donald Duck pajamas, munching on buttered toast and staring at her cellphone like she can will it to ring. If someone calls in response to the ad she posted this morning on Craigslist, she can add $75 to her projected income for the month.
Five months ago, before being laid off, Marie was bringing in $45,000 a year at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Now, she operates out of two offices: her living room and a regularly changing hotel room. Her uniform is different, too: Instead of conservative business attire, she dons a lace bra and booty-hugging capris. The former corporate supervisor has become a sex worker.
She's applied for every strait-laced office gig she can find -- regardless of hours, pay or whether her University of California degree makes her absurdly overqualified. She went from being a manager to fighting for personal assistant positions.
But last month, after innumerable unanswered cover letters, overdue bills and a delay in her unemployment checks, she entered a world of code words and cash wads. It was baptism by -- bodily fluids: She peed on a guy in her own bed for $100. Since then, she's been paid more times than she can count, or cares to count, for sex, blow jobs, hand jobs and sensual massage.
Of course, Marie is far from the only woman pushed into the sex industry...
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Where’s the pictures??
$725?!! Duck Pajamas?!! LoL
I think not
Sorry, “being poor doesn’t mean you have to be dirty”.. advice from my Grandmother, received from her Mother and going back generations of women in my family.
I call BS on stories like this. Make it seem normal then suddenly it is the accepted norm. Bull.... lemmings....
Code for $75.00 so the story says, depends on the services I guess. Never have had any real world experience with a hooker in the the united states.
I can't help but feel sorry for 'em,defiling themselves for a few bucks. It ain't pretty, and it ain't healthy for body,mind, or spirit.
Obamas world. Hope and Change...
Good Lord
But Hey! we get free healthcare!
I smell a Janet Cooke award nominee. Anyone else find this a highly likely fabrication? I bet Salon does no fact checking on such a piece.
What about strip backgammon?
Hell, I’d pee on some idiot for $100 bucks
It’s sad to see the DemocRATS using the economy to turn American women into “ho”s.
Not getting into the wide stance mode are you??
Hell, I drink enough coffee and beer each day, I could make a few hundred bucks. I’ll even fart in their direction for another $50
Prostitution is often referred to as the “world’s oldest profession.” This phrase implies that people, women especially, willingly choose to be prostitutes. People usually choose professions to further their ambitions or use their aptitudes and gifts. Prostitution is not a profession; it is the exploitation of a human being.
Why is this important and how does it relate to trafficking? Those wishing to legalize prostitution and thereby normalize it use the term “forced prostitution,” as opposed to “voluntary prostitution.” Some people believe that legalizing prostitution will end sex trafficking.
Abolitionists fighting to end sex trafficking see all prostitution as violent, exploitative and harmful to women, children and men. The distinction between forced and voluntary is a false one; it is all destructive and dehumanizing. Yes, some people willingly enter into prostitution; they are in the minority. According to research done by Melissa Farley, Ph.D., of Prostitution Research and Education, 88 percent of people working as prostitutes said they wanted to leave prostitution.
The hazards of the job and the toll it takes on mental health are some of the reasons for wanting to escape. Professor Donna M. Hughes at the University of Rhode Island listed the following statistics about violence perpetrated against women and girls by their pimps and “johns,” and the consequences:
In Chicago:
This does not sound like a profession, it sounds like torture. Pro-prostitution groups contend that legalization will make it safer and take the away the stigma felt by prostitutes. Abolitionists contend that banning prostitution and prosecuting the perpetrators, such as pimps, johns and traffickers, will free victims from slavery and degradation and be the first step to giving them back their dignity and self-worth.
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Hope and Change.
Soon we could have women knocking at our doors and begging for food.
We are turning into a 3rd world country.
Thanks to Obama and the Demoncraps economic policies,a house for every person who could not afford it,looking out for the Unions and prolonging the economic miasma. And we are only a few months in.
Obama means to break the spirit of America, and one of the ways it will be done is to have our women defile themselves.
It will get much, much worse.
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