Tilly Lawless

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The Hook Up · Sex Workers In Love · 12 Apr 2016 podcast

And sex work is always in the back of your mind as something that's like quite lucrative and also fascinating, I think, to a lot of people.

So I Googled escorting and that's when my foray began.

It all starts with a Google

People's idea of brothel workers is different to their idea of other sex workers because brothel work is seen to be like further down in the hierarchy of sex work.

So you have like escorts and sugar babies who are meant to be like the more educated ones at the top.

And brothel workers, it seems to be closely tied to the more people you have sex with, the dirtier like your job is.

So with brothel work, people can't seem to number one wrap their

They head around the fact that you might sleep with a few people a night.

I think that a lot of sex workers have a lot of internalized whore phobia.

And instead of like sort of addressing that, they...

to take that out on other members of the community.

And you can make yourself... If you're unhappy about your job, one of the ways you can make yourself feel better about it is by saying, oh, well, other people are worse than me.

So, you know, like, I'm a sugar baby, but I'd never be a whore.

Or, you know, I might do massage, but I'd never have sex for money.

And all these things are things people say to try and distance themselves from the rest of the people because they feel shame about what they do.

And unfortunately...

all that just like feeds into the hierarchy, which is like the perfect word.

And, you know, further shames and stigmatizes those who like might be, you know, further down in this like theoretical, like invisible ladder of, yeah, sex work.

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