Also just. Since I’m rambling about sex work today, we need to get rid of the idea that the person who purchases sexual services or products are all somehow evil and exploiting the sex worker.

I’ve had clients that became friends! I’ve had clients who were disabled and wanted companionship, who were gentle and kind people. I’ve had clients who cried to me and thanked me for allowing them to just exist without expectations. I’ve helped clients realize they’re gay or trans. I’ve had many, many many more positive experiences than ever negative ones with sex work specifically. Because the truth is, people are shitty to sex workers, but the majority of those people aren’t clients! And there are shitty clients, and abusive ones, but not as many as there are shitty and abusive retail customers in a 20 minute span working as a cashier on a busy day.

A lot of sex workers aren’t doing sex work just because it’s the only tolerable thing they can do to survive. I LOVE sex work, when all my spoons are there for it. I have more fond memories and funny stories from sex work than I even have memories of past jobs at all.

And I think it should be more normalized for more people to support sex workers by purchasing their services! Sex workers support each other constantly but because of this idea that sex work is all bad and evil and all the clients are evil abusers, it holds back more good people from supporting us! Like god I’d love to have more queer clients, more women, more types of people! But as long as we keep demonizing the profession AND the clients, that ain’t gonna happen huh