Not everyone's cuppa tea, but tbh, I get really, really tired of middle to upper moiddle-class white professional women and men just totally dismissing the f-a-c-t that women sometimes have to do sex work because they have no other means of support they can readily access.
I know, I know, tell me how they don't "have" to. Then go out and advertise none of the skills you've developed and try to get any job and maintain hrt, have srs, ffs, etc.
It's just too easy to scapegoat this population as well: Latina, poor, under- or un-educated in many cases, often already sexually abused before they ever come close to the streets, and, of course, undesireable because they are TS/TG. *sheesh*
Our willingness to not simply judge, but also to apply the parameters of our own lives to them and ask "why should you have to do such things?" always bothers me: like, "Well, I may be a freak, but you're a bigger one than me." The saddest thing is that many Caucasian, northern European women are in the exact same boats.
We just don't often get to meet them in forums like this and others.
OK, soapbox put away for the day.
Nichole
