Pink Nipples: Meet a Hooker Who Enjoys Her Job
Posted: August 16th, 2009 | Filed under: legalization, prostitution | 2 Comments »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
To people who think that women profit and enjoy prostitution instead of getting abused and suffering horribly from sex work, I give you this:
The Price of Sex
http://www.priceofsex.org/content/price-sex-women-speak
The author of that comic strip is to women being abused and suffering horribly from sex work as the guy who sells organic cheese at my local farmer’s market is to a nineteenth-century Russian serf.
It makes no more sense to say that women uniformly profit from and enjoy prostitution than it does to say that women uniformly suffer horrible abuse. One might think that slavery being involved in one instance but not the other could be a important factor.