Posted on 09/27/2010 5:33:29 AM PDT by Libloather
Bronx teacher admits: I'm an ex-hooker
By KEVIN FASICK and YOAV GONEN
Last Updated: 6:48 AM, September 27, 2010
Meet Melissa Petro -- the teacher who gives a new twist to "sex ed."
The tattooed former hooker and stripper has been teaching art in a Bronx elementary school for three years, The Post has learned.
Calling herself a "for mer sex worker," the well-liked teacher has been shockingly up front about her past -- posting online accounts of her sexcapades in Mexico and Lon don.
But in her boldest move, the 30-year-old posted an essay this month claiming she also had been a prostitute.
"From October 2006 to January 2007, I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the 'erotic services' section of Craigslist.org," wrote Petro on The Huffington Post, using her real name and picture.
The attached bio identifies Petro, who has an MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School, as a "former sex worker, researcher, writer, educator, and feminist."
It appears she managed to keep her shenanigans a secret from parents at PS 70 -- who were stunned by the revelation.
"I don't want nobody that used to do that to be around my kid," said Grace Ventura, whose son is in third grade. "People like that should not be allowed to be anywhere near children."
Yocelyn Quezada said perhaps Petro had managed to turn her life around, but she still fumed that a former money honey was teaching two of her three kids.
"She's not a good role model. I do not want my daughters to find out about this," Quezada said, "and I do not want my daughters to be around that kind of person."
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The '80s were great!
Amazing what we learn sometimes, when I was 22 I was talking to a coworker who grew up and went to high school at a little town about twenty miles from where I went to high school. When he heard where I went to school he said, “Oh, then you must have known Linda X. Now the girl he mentioned was incredibly beautiful, she was often compared to Natalie Wood who was a young movie star at the time. I replied that yes Linda was a classmate of mine. He then blew me away when he answered, “You know, you almost never meet a girl that good looking who likes to xxxx that much.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and he couldn’t believe that I didn’t understand what he was talking about. He swore that she used to come over to his town and “entertain” a whole group of teenage boys at once. I would have sworn she was as pure as the driven snow.
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