Pink Nipples: Meet a Hooker Who Enjoys Her Job

According to sex-negative feminists no women choose sex work. (See the following post, “The $1,000/hr Victim.”). Therefore all sex workers and their customers should be criminals.

It was difficult for sex workers to attack this flapdoodle previously because it would require revealing their identities. Thanks to the Internet, sex workers can now take on the righteous prudes without fearing the vice police.

I have not seen anyone do this online as colorfully as the Modern Hooker (“MH”). MH makes an “ass ton of money” as a prostitute and began cartooning about her experiences in April of 2009. MH started prostituting on the streets of Hollywood when she was 19. She comes from a family of university professors and actually researched prostitution at the library as a newbie.

Her initial foray lasted less than a year and she went on to have a career and a family. When her kids were older she entered the business again as a “cougar” because she was “bored in [her] career, wanted to make more money, have easier hours and get laid without having to deal with relationships.” (dreidel_hustler)

You can learn more about her in this interview where she reveals how much it costs to have a sex worker take a dump on you ($400), what the latest rage is (prostate massage), and how to find a good escort (The Escort Ratings Report).

All of her cartoons can be found in a higher resolution at Carnal Nation. Her personal site is ModernHooker.com.

To preempt those like Diane Sawyer who say proud sex workers are extremely rare and that desperate street prostitutes are the norm, street-based prostitution only accounts for roughly 15% of prostitution in America. (Murphy)

Sources:

1. Alexandra Murphy & Sudhir Venkatesh, “Vice Careers,” Qualitative Sociology, June 2006.
2. dreidel_hustler, “Modern Hooker: The Heeb Interview,” Heeb, 12 May 2009. LINK

Vice Myth #527,001: Criminalizing Prostitution Protects Women

Attorneys General across America have been getting themselves press by hounding the online classifieds service, Craigslist, for facilitating prostitution. According to ABC News there is “public outrage” over Craigslist. This prudish moral grandstanding would be less noxious if it did not cloak itself as protecting women.

Supposedly this public outrage grew due to the “Craigslist Killer,” Philip Markoff, who is charged with murdering a woman he found through Craigslist’s erotic services category. According to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Craigslist had to shut down its erotic services listings saying:

We have a responsibility to protect children and women and anyone who may be victims of these kinds of criminal activity that may involve human trafficking, child exploitation, other brutal and violent crime.

What? If it was not for Craigslist, police would not have been able to track down Markoff. (They traced his Craigslist e-mails.)

Driving sex work underground is exactly what makes it dangerous. Sex workers in legal brothels do not have to worry about client abuse or persecution by law enforcement. They can also be easily found by moralists that wish to “save” them.

Blumenthal told ABC News, “We’re not going away.”

Mr. Blumenthal, that is why sex workers’ lives are endangered.

Read more at the prior post “The $1,000/hr Victim”. To hear the voices of proud, intelligent, and fabulous sex workers go to the blog, Bound, Not Gagged.

Sources:

1. Lisa Fletcher, et al., “Fingerprints, Scratches Tied to Craigslist Suspect,” ABCNews.Go.com, 23 Apr. 2009. LINK
2. Sarah Netter, “Craigslist Clean-Up: Is it Really Working?” ABCNews.Go.com, 20 June 2009. LINK

The $1,000/hr Victim

This cartoon was created out of my disgust at an editorial in the New York Times by Melissa Farley and Victor Malarek, “The Myth of the Victimless Crime.” LINK For all the reasons presented in the cartoon above, they claimed that all prostitutes are victims – including Eliot Spitzer’s high end call girl.

In 2008 my feelings towards those that still believe sex acts by consenting adults require police intervention are the same as those expressed around 1900 by the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, who was exasperated by the inanity of forcing “rehabilitation” and prison on prostitutes:

Why is it constantly necessary to do something to people? If we can’t do something for them, when are we going to learn to let them alone? Or must this incessant interference, this meddling, this mauling and manhandling, go on in the world forever and ever?

For a view from the United Kingdom where the religious right and sex-negative feminists have less sway go to the following Guardian article, LINK.

Addendum:

In a New York Times letter to the editor one woman wrote:

In the various political roundtables this week, everyone seemed to agree, at least, on the “victimless crime” argument. I am shocked that the thoughtful, intelligent people (mostly men) on these shows are so comfortable with the idea that a woman would choose to have sex for money.

Do these people know any women? Can they really believe that this is a choice?

Yes, they do know women. Here are postings about Farley’s article by women who chose sex work, LINK & LINK.

Sources:

1. Amanda Brooks, “Farley Saves the Day!” Bound, Not Gagged (Blog), 12 Mar. 2008. LINK
2. Melissa Farley & Victor Malarek, “The Myth of the Victimless Crime,” New York Times, 12 Mar. 2008. LINK
3. Karly Kirchner, “Melissa Farley Get a Life!” Bound, Not Gagged (Blog), 12 Mar. 2008. LINK
4. Elizabeth Pisani, “Spitzer’s True Folly,” Guardian, 13 Mar. 2008. LINK
5. Kathleen Reeves, “To The Editor,” New York Times, 13 Mar. 2008. LINK