People who define sex work as the selling of a body, or who say sex isn’t work, are telling you a lot about their own sex lives. I mean, think about it; what does it say to you for a person to claim they believe sex consists of a woman lying passively in bed like a doll while a man “accesses her body cavities”? What would you conclude about the sexual experiences of a person who claimed to believe that sex required no labor at all from the woman, but was simply done to her, with the man as the only active party in the transaction? And yet, when I made this simple point last week, I was inundated with angry responses from prohibitionists trying to “explain” that I was wrong (and a misogynist, natch) because sex really does involve a woman lying there like a cadaver, with a man “masturbating into her orifices”. I got similar responses from almost a score of prohibitionists, who thus boosted my tweets while amply proving my point over and over again (even after I suggested they stop digging). Too bad the general public is just as ignorant as they are and are therefore unable to see through their embarrassing self-exposure as easily as those of us in the demimonde can.
Starfish
June 7, 2019 by Maggie McNeill
I would guess those people have lame sex lives, regardless of whether they’re male or female. On the other hand, I think “selling your body” is probably a euphemism, and believing that anyone who uses the term is imagining passivity on the part of the prostitute may not be completely accurate either.
When I saw the title of this posting, “Starfish,” all I could think of was an asshole, for which the word is sometimes used. And I guess that’s what it’s about — the assholes who would criticize, denigrate, and prohibit sex work and the agency of sex workers. Whether that was what was in your mind in selecting the title or not, it certainly applies to these prohibitionists. Good choice!
Ye gods! Reminds one of Queen Victoria: “Lie back and think of England”
Victoria herself loved fucking Prince Albert. “Think of England” is attributed to the journal of a Lady Hillingdon in 1912.