*checks urban legend notes* Victor Hugo was closer to God than any of us?

idk man I've read Les Miserables, I think it's fair to say that his empathy and compassion for the sex worker is not merely transactional. I don't think there's a contradiction there, and I don't think the prostitutes of Paris were mourning just for their best client. I think he saw worthy and valuable people everywhere, and people felt that.

also yeah dude fucked like a rat on bath salts

Sex work is real work and if you disagree, leave.

Y’all really out here getting cucked huh

Dude, he’s fucking the girl you jack off to. That’s the exact opposite of being cucked.

hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right

It’s “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerard van Honthorst!!

It’s the best painting that exists

I don’t know about you, but I really want to know what’s written on there - wait, I found a higher res image, can anyone translate this?

also it’s kind of an amazing little vignette

Hahahaa

Okay it says “who knows my arse from behind” and I will never recover from this

OKAY— so i LOVE this painting, it’s in the St. Louis Art Museum, and on a tour i found out the story. it’s not a naked dude, at all. It’s actually a smaller depiction of her, she’s a sex worker! She’s showing off her advertising for her services. It’s a really cool historical example of sex work, and a gorgeous painting to see in person.

So that grin is her going:

“That’s me!!”

unfriendly reminder: this is a sex worker positive space. I will not tolerate the disrespect of sex workers here, and if you cant agree with that without a doubt then you're not welcome here.

sure would be nice if people other than porn blogs and sex workers reblogged this

unfriendly reminder: this is a sex worker positive space. I will not tolerate the disrespect of sex workers here, and if you cant agree with that without a doubt then you're not welcome here.

sure would be nice if people other than porn blogs and sex workers reblogged this

One thing I just realized i really appreciate about Tamora Pierce's worlds? They have prostitutes. Even in her books aimed at a younger teen audience they exist. And they are usually depicted as strong reasonable men and women who have chosen sex work as a way to make their way in the world and the only ones who make a fuss about them are also typically the people who the MCs are having to push back against in their quests to be respected female warriors and leaders, so sex workers end up being framed as people to work with against oppressive systems.

people are like “I support sex workers” until they actually have to support sex workers by critiquing their ingrained ideas about sex and work and then they're suddenly like “we need to rescue girls from thinking selling their bodies is okay!1!!”

when sex workers say that “sex work is work” it means sex work, like all work, functions in a capitalist framework. yes, you can be exploited as a sex worker. but you can also be exploited as a garment factory worker, in retail (!), as a teacher, as a games developer. capitalism is exploitative at the core and making this out to be a trait unique to sex work—often solely due to the sexual aspect, like it's okay for someone to be objectified and overworked and abused but only if they're no sex in the equation, or as though it's especially bad if there's sex in the equation—harms sex workers and harms critiques of capitalism at large by distracting you from the core concern of workers' rights, which are rights for all workers including sex workers.

in case anyone was wondering, this is Dean Balsamini; the NY Post reporter who doxxed a 23 year old EMT for having an OnlyFans account despite her begging him not to publish the story after he snooped around on her anyway.

aside from trying to make ends meet as an EMT with an OnlyFans gig on the side, she also was working as a part time restaurant host, during a pandemic. this piece of shit reporter went behind her back and informed her employer about her OnlyFans gig. Dean Balsamini and Susan Edelman disregarded the ethics of journalism and published the story as well as the EMT’s name without permission anyway, resulting in a maelstrom of heartache and stress for this 23 year old EMT who has since received death threats and has lived in fear of losing her job—DURING A PANDEMIC.

let Balsamini know how you feel:

[email protected]

A reminder to everyone that outing a sexworker is an act of VIOLENCE as long as we are still fighting for decrim.

My heart goes out to this woman in this horrendous time, especially on today, December 17th: the international day to end violence against sex workers.

She still has her job, tons of people defended her, and AOC tweeted about her and contacted her:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/onlyfans-medic-lauren-kwei-new-york-post-interview-1104943/

Screencap of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response tweet to the NY Post article:

Leave her alone. The actual scandalous headline here is "Medics in the United States need two jobs to survive"

10:14 PM Dec 13, 2020

Sex worker PSA

Last night my client mentioned how after I came to his house the last time I popped up on his Facebook. He wanted to warn me that even if you turn your location services off (which I always do) it still tracks your location and if you’re in close vicinity with someone you will pop up on their Facebook. So now he knows my real name and info. Thankfully he’s very nice and warned me, just be careful ladies!! You don’t want your info in the wrong hands

I need a second phone man

Even if I have a second phone I have my other phone on right? Unless I turn it off this is unavoidable right

My profile pics are all at a distance so you can’t tell its me

My thinking is I would only bring the work phone to outcalls and leave my personal phone at home.

aaaaaaaaaaaa oh god no.  Has anyone heard of ANY way to turn that off?  I don’t currently have a separate phone for work.

Or just uninstall Facebook and only use it in safari

Here’s a helpful thing: SEX WORKERS: CLIENTS ARE SEEING YOU ON FACEBOOK! HERE’S HOW TO STOP IT.

Reblogging for anyone who is following me who is a sex worker! Be safe!!