how do you feel about people paying sex workers for things they arent traditionally paid for? (like receiving orgasms)

catchmewheni-slip:

sexworkersubconscious:

marginalutilite:

leighalanna:

An Incomplete List of “Untraditional” Things I Have Been Paid For as a Sex Worker:

• Fixing a Toaster
• Programming a DVR
• Babysitting
• Making an omelette (this was not good, I am an awesome cook, but oddly lousy at omelettes)
• Teaching Basic Knitting
• Practicing English
• Pretending to be Sarah Palin
• Practicing French
• Copyediting 
• Organizing a ritual sacrifice to an imaginary Mother Goddess

And the best you can come up with “receiving an orgasm”?

* sitting through countless iphone slideshows of people’s pets, children, and vacations

* being videoed smoking a pack of Marlboro Lights

* talking several people down from suicide

*taking a walk with someone

*soaping between someone’s toes

*for that matter, giving foot massages

*summarizing classic books people hadn’t read for them—sort of being a walking Cliff Notes

* watching many John Holmes/Candy Samples features

* listening to the first episode of Serial

*pretending to be someone’s mom—like their very specific, sorta slutty immigrant mom who didn’t do her laundry very often

My list isn’t quite as awesome as yours, leighalanna, but that’s probably b/c I’m forgetting huge swathes of my fourteen year career. I loved haventreadthat’s recent anecdote about how suddenly when you turn thirty you start FORGETTING EVERYTHING. It’s so damn true and so gorgeously relaxing, but is so disadvantageous for any memoir writing endeavor.

-cleaning the kitchen. More specifically, getting tough grout stains out of a kitchen sink. 
-fixing a refrigerator hose
-watching basketball
-listening to metal albums
-petting dogs
-bartending
-swapping parenting tips

– mixing drinks
– discussing music
– discussing star trek
– verbally basking in the luxury of the entire situation, tbh
– standing naked in the window of a suite int he most expensive hotel in the city

-Listening to people talk about their gender

-Discussing feminism

-Eating dinner

-Discussing The Great Gatsby

-Explaining how skype works

-Recommending bands

-Troubleshooting a buttplug

-Getting my nails done

-Wearing a t-shirt of minor league basket ball team the Lake Monsters

-Having sex with my husband

-Giving directions to the nearest glory hole to someone who was driving through barstow on his way to vegas (BAT COUNTRY)

– Also talking people down from suicide

-Listening to people talk about the grieving process over dead loved ones