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Profiling a South Philly hooker
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Profiling a South Philly hooker
Caught this little slice of life on the Atlantic this morning, an interview with a prostitute in South Philly. Princess, as she's called, got laid off from her job as an office manager and has been unable to find work since, so, in her words, "I's opening my pussy for business." Her two kids, the story tells us, know what she does for a living, as does her approving father. For what it's worth, I'm sort of conflicted on the issue of prostitution: On the one hand, I'm of a libertarian bent on most social issues; what consenting adults do, no matter the arrangement between them, is none of our business. On the other, the prostitution industry carries with it an almost inherent exploitation of women.
Princess, meanwhile, adamantly defends her chosen profession:
"I cause pleasure. I provide a service that brings people pleasure. I won't service married men or women, men of the cloth. See even hos got rules of morality," she laughs. "But seriously, I can understand why people who been brought up one way think it's immoral. I don't understand why it's illegal. With our government needing money, I wish I could pay taxes."
Curious to know what you Cloggers think.
Why don't you go have sex with a protistute Billman & tell us all about it? Do it without telling your wife / fiancee...tell her afterwards, then tell us on the Clog what her reaction was.
PROSTITUTE
How's that old saying go? The most expensive prostitute is one's wife? Funny but so true in a way - and the sex disappears for so many guys, or is used as a manipulation tool...no wonder so many married guys see whores, or wind up gay & having gay sex in parks & public restrooms.
I was wondering what business had her as their office manager??? "I's opening my pussy for business.", that's how I want the people who work for me to speak. I was wondering, was the purpose of this little blurb to educate or infuriate? If you're asking me to believe that this woman has been laid off from an office job and naturally turned to tricking, I'd have to say ...you're asking alot!
Let us know when you do some original reporting.
Prostitution in America (as with so many other things) is different than in other countries (forgive me - I JUST wrote a term paper for my Master's about this). In India, sex workers have a labor union, pay wage taxes, and as a regulated industry have far lower rates of unwanted pregnancy and abuse. Studies have repeatedly shown that sex workers are much more health-conscious and practice much higher levels of safe sex than the average...sex-haver...and the rate of STI infection is much lower than one would expect. And while internationally, those who turn to sex work to support a drug addiction or because they're being trafficked are a massive contingency of victims that need huge amounts of help, there does exist a faction of sex workers who enjoy what they do, who did not enter the profession via some kind of physical, psychological, or economic trauma, and lead generally fulfilling and safe lives. There's a sort of caste system with sex workers, even in the U.S., with escorts and in-house girls (such as Las Vegas, where the industry is highly regulated) at the top, who rarely experience any sort of abuse, are not allowed to receive pay if they test positive for drugs, and make a decent living wage. Street walkers are at a high risk for abuse, but it generally tends to happen the most if they're drug-seeking or working with an addiction. Women (and men, btw) who are trafficked into sex work are easily the most often abused, with the highest rates of mortality, infection, and unwanted pregnancies. The profile of underage sex work in the U.S. is alarmingly full of teenaged boys, not teen girls. It has been proven that a lack of employment opportunity is negatively correlated with prostitution (one goes down, the other goes up). Because America was founded on moral fibers, it will never be a valid form of work, and because it's not valid, it's not legal, and because it's not legal, it's not taxable. But when it comes to the oldest profession in the world, you only need to look around the rest of the world or to Las Vegas to see what regulation and decriminalization has done. You can't rehabilitate someone who's doing something that, under the eyes of the law, shouldn't exist.
The story sounds totally made up.
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