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Thu Dec 3, 2015, 01:33 PM Dec 2015

Let the 'Sex Workers' Speak for Themselves! | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Nov. 27, 2015

Here’s how it goes: You write something critical (backed with boatloads of evidence) about pornography and/or prostitution and the liberal feminists/queer theorists come out of the woodwork to rally the allies. They label you “sex negative” and silence you by chanting in unison: “Let the sex workers speak for themselves!”

I decided to test their receptiveness by recently interviewing a survivor but that didn’t seem to satisfy the postmodern crowd. They prefer to only heed “sex workers” like the woman who appeared in a recent Cosmopolitan article called: Sex Worker Answers All Your Questions About What It's Like to Work at a Legal Brothel.

This “sex worker” -- or as she calls it, “therapists who also maybe touch your weiner” -- was Sarah Greenmore and from her, I learned:

--She’s always been “a very sexual person” but her job is “not about my pleasure, it’s about his.”
--“Making people feel good is my job, first and foremost.”
--Before a rough day of perhaps seven “clients,” use a lube that has Hyaluronan in it, which “helps repair skin cells.”
--She’s “not interested in dating anyone who wouldn't call themselves a feminist.”

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