Tilly Lawless
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294 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2016
last heard Mar 2021
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The Hook Up · Beyond exploitative or empowering: Tilly Lawless on sex work and feminism · 7 Mar 2021
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And there's such an accelerated intimacy.
And there's also, we have so much fun in the girls' room.
Like, you know, you have like a strange booking with a client and you come down and you like tell all the girls and you all laugh about it.
Like, I love that community that exists.
I also really enjoy meeting people like clients that I wouldn't meet in other circumstances and having sort of like moments of like genuine intimacy and connection.
And it makes me, it's like kind of life affirming.
It makes me feel good about the world.
Like there is an ability to connect with people.
I mean, it can also be awful because when you're mentally unwell, you go to work and you feel really discordant and you feel disconnected from everyone.
And you're like, Oh, I'll never connect with anyone ever again.
You know?
And that can be a really awful thing to push through, but yeah,
At other times, it's also really reassuring to know that you can have like a nice time with complete strangers.
I think the first thing we need to do is not look at clients homogeneously.
So like, I think we assume that clients are all straight men, you know, when that's not it at all.
Like I see many women clients and they are largely straight men, but it's not because straight men have a higher sex drive.
It's because straight men have more of an expendable income.
Like they earn more
And also it's more culturally acceptable for them to book sex workers.
I honestly feel that if women like earned as much as men and it was acceptable for them to spend their money on things like sex work, we would see,
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