Confidentially, would you ever out a client if you knew it could further your political agenda?
I don’t need to answer this confidentially; honestly, I’m a bit surprised that you can read my writing and think that I’m not open about my ethics. In fact, I’ve repeatedly stated my position on this. Mine is the oldest profession in the world, predating even the human species; we are the mothers of civilization, which could not exist in its present form without us. Every whore understands that it’s wrong to out clients; “about 20% of men see sex workers occasionally…yet we don’t see anything like 20% of men exposed as clients. The fact that ignorant people believe the nonsensical claim that fewer than 15% of men have ever paid for sex tends to point toward the lifetime exposure rate as being even lower than that…” And it isn’t only a matter of ethics; a whore who got caught outing clients would be destroying her own brand for good, so there are good practical as well as moral reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the famous men who end up between our legs.
That all goes out the window, however, if a client is a prohibitionist. As I’ve written on a number of occasions, it is NOT unethical to out a hypocrite who’s trying to harm sex workers and other clients; in fact, given that prohibitionists are waging a long, incredibly bloody, scorched-earth war against us, I would say any sex worker who outs a prohibitionist (whether politician, cop, NGO figure or anyone else who publicly supports the criminalization of any aspect of our work), especially given the aforementioned risk to her business, is a war heroine. Nor does the sex worker who wishes to do so need to stand alone; if anyone reading this has a prohibitionist client to out, please contact me and I’ll feature your denunciation right here in this blog. No generation of whores has ever had to endure such a widespread, aggressive, vicious, blatantly dishonest, morally-bankrupt crusade against our work, clients and lives as the one we’re enduring now; harsh times require harsh measures, and the monsters who fuck and then attack us are rapist-level hypocrites who deserve everything they get.
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