Posted on 02/16/2012 9:13:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Melissa Petro has spent much of her young life writing about the plight of sex workers: The stigma and shame, their treatment as victims or villains. Now Petro has been trampled by the forces she was trying to fight. After writing about her own experience as a sex worker, Petro was forced to resign from her teaching post. With two master's degrees, five years' experience in nonprofit work and three years as a teacher, as well as a litany of published writings, Petro is skipping meals. No one will give her a job.
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Petro began stripping when she was 19, on her semester abroad in Mexico. From a working class home, and the first of her family to attend college, Petro had a string of grueling low-wage jobs. She entered the sex industry for the same reason as hundreds of thousands of American women: the money.
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Petro wishes her story could have raised issues like the legality of prostitution and the constitutionality of her speech. Instead, she describes herself as being treated as a monster, vanquished, now left to hand out resumes, and scrounge desperately for cash -- the same bleak circumstances that lead so many women to sex work in the first place.
"I was being idealistic," she writes about that HuffPost op-ed. "I was being provocative. I was naive. I picked a fight that I thought I could win -- and I was wrong."
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Guilty!
Bush’s fault!
No, this is different. A mistress is usually a woman a guy loves other than his wife and has a relationship that is more than just sex.
Teacher get fired for being a whore.
And she wants pity?
Does the label “sex-worker” make it any different?
Remember what Charlie Sheen said..”Hey I’m not paying for the girls..I’m paying for them to leave”
“We are all whores to some extent on how we sell our bodies to the highest bidder.”
I disagree. Renting your body for labor (picking cotton) or your mind for labor (computer programming) does not involve selling your soul. Prostitution/stripping/porn sells the soul. There is a marked difference.
It’s more general than that, I think. It’s on par with some idiot movie star saying something incredibly stupid, there’s a big public backlash, and then they whine on the Today Show about their right to free speech being trampled.
This looks like she feels the Constitution protects her decisions, whatever they may be, from any/all public fallout.
Miss Davis you go to the prom with me ?
Well of course it is your right to disagree, however, we can both agree your morals are a standard for you and maybe not everyone else! Her story also includes the fact she used the money she made from hooking to further her education and get a degree. Why must a person suffer their future because of a lifestyle they once had. Sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do to survive.
Re your post #19, what you are describing is a whore and nothing but a whore.
Fixed!
I'd wager her panties have seen more floors than Johnson's Paste Wax.
So, while she was teaching elementary school, at night she committed criminal acts for money. And then she confessed publicly to these criminal acts, and got fired from her teaching job.
This isn’t really about stripping, or even being a hooker to get through college. It seems to be about not being allowed to be a school teacher if you are moonlighting in a criminal enterprise.
And it’s certainly not about “free speech” — she didn’t get fired for WRITING about why prostitution should be legal, she got fired for confessing to committing crimes while she was employed as a teacher.
“Why must a person suffer their future because of a lifestyle they once had. “
I think people are redeemable. I hope she recovers. That said I wouldn’t hire her to teach my kids. I think she has a problem making good moral judgments. Also, I presume she is a damaged soul.
I don’t like honest work such as fishing or bus driving made equivalent to whoring. It’s not all the same thing. There is moral work and immoral work.
“we can both agree your morals are a standard for you and maybe not everyone else”
No, I can’t really agree to that. God defines what is right and wrong. We don’t. And we are all subject to His standards, not our own.
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