Dear Privileged Sex Workers

diosanegra:

ark-rein:

leighalanna:

mskinkerbelle:

diosanegra:

femmedreamboat:

White Sex Workers…

High Priced Sex Workers…

Able Bodied Sex Workers…

Indie/Alt Sex Workers…

HAVE A FUCKIN’ SEAT. 

Stop pretending that making 100k per year is normal for more than a minuscule margin of all sex workers. 

Quit putting down low-rent and barter workers. We don’t all turn tricks to be blond, skinny millionaires at 25. We don’t all work at the Bunny Ranch, or KOD, or Scores. Some of us are late on rent and sick and disabled and most of us are Black and Brown, and many of us are parents, and we are not all sitting stacking paper and being halfway feminist and mad at anyone with a critique of the business. Lots of us work in the back of cars, dance on wooden stages that give us splinters, do extras (yes, do extras, get over yourself), and have pimps. Lots of us make normal ass amounts of money. Most of us are not rich. 

Few of us have unionized. Most of us would likely lose our jobs if we even tried. 

No one owes you information about whether or not they are in this industry. Lots of us could literally not afford to tell you even if we wanted to. Which why would we want to tell you when you already decided that anything less than 300$ an hour is shameful and means we should get another job. Who wants to tell your judgmental, skinny, white ass anything?

For Real Tho’,

Dynasty (W)Rex

****************************
Not into body shaming, but to say that being thin & white in this industry isn’t an asset would be a fucking lie. I realized a long time ago that I can’t charge a grip and expect the clients to still come pouring in.

As a white, on the “high end of average” price range, able bodied, indie sex worker…..I think that the original post is a perfect example of prejudice and whorearchy that the OP attacking.
Sure, I (usually) make better than average income for someone my age with little college experience, but I’m not rolling in the dough. And every other sex worker that I know, who fits under those categories, isn’t either.
Honestly, I don’t know anyone, except for maybe our clueless clients, who claims that we make that much, and that 100k+ per year is the norm.

#sexwork #whorearchy

Oppression can’t “punch up” – it’s not lateral whorephobia to make generalizations about people who wield institutional power over you. (At absolute worst it’s…mean, maybe, and I don’t think this is.) just like black people can’t be racist towards white people, black sex workers can’t be racist towards white sex workers (and ditto the other axes of oppression that are being discussed: this is about how those marginalizations impact one’s ability to do sex work in less stigmatized ways).

Besides, without wanting to speak for the OP, I think you’re sort of missing the actual point. No one saying that all sex workers with one or some of the privileges automatically makes a mint, but rather
A) that we often talk about money and our income in really generalizing ways that are harmful (eg, “if you’re not charging x per hour, learn to value yourself!”)
B) that sex workers with other institutional privileges can access more income and more diversified income streams than sex workers without those privileges. Off the top of my head, ithotyouknew talks about this eloquently and at length as specifically regards double standards in femme presentation between white and black women workers (briefly put: white workers can often “get away with” presenting more sloppily and still command higher rates and generate income where others can’t). You don’t have to be “rolling in dough” to be able to earn more while doing less (and you don’t have to be not working hard for that to still be true).

K but like. Even if there is a gap between this white, high priced, able bodied,
indie/alt sex worker and coloured girls, what is the point in attacking them? You do realize this industry is based entirely off consumers right?? As much as it would be nice for everyone to be equally successful, and make the same amount of money, the sad truth is, consumers power the industry and they decide who gets the money, and they have preferences. It’s a shitty truth, but seems ultra low to attack the successful ones because you are not doing well. It literally IS NOT THEIR FAULT.

You know what’s even lower than ultra low? Not acknowledging and silencing the differences between different types of sex workers. The sex workers whose voices are heard are almost exclusively privileged sex workers. The message of the OP is to say, “hey you’re not the only sex workers who exists. There are other sex workers who don’t have the been afforded certain luxuries and our voices are just as valid. The majority of sex workers aren’t the high end providers who always get to be heard. Our voices matter too, so while your privilege has allowed you to make bank, don’t degrade the street workers, the barterers, those who you AND society deem to be unacceptable. So have a seat because you don’t speak for us and you don’t care about us.” Also, don’t call us “colo(u)red”, it’s beyond offensive. 

That last statement is redacted only if you’re South African and are referring to actual Coloured people.

Skinny white indie domme here, and I can confirm I definitely get paid more for doing less.  This isn’t an attack.  Other sex workers deserve to be heard.  For fuck’s sake, and yeah, I make like 40k a year because I’m mentally ill and also choose not to provide certain services, but I CAN MAKE THAT CHOICE, cause I’m a skinny, traditionally attractive domme with an upper class accent.