How Addiction Turned Me Into a High-Flying Hooker

Really, Jezebel? REALLY?!

I mean, it’s OK that they don’t publish much about sex work. After all, the topic is not that appealing to their demographics. Unless. Unless… it’s sensationalistic stuff like this:

To a repressed fundamentalist Christian girl from a small town, prostitution sounded like a dream career—you get to have sex, sweet forbidden sex, and you get paid for it? To an alcoholic and addict, it just seemed like a good lifestyle fit. Flexible hours, enough untaxed income to spend indiscriminately in blackouts and very little in the way of actual skills-or even coherence-required.

Can we have any more stereotypes and stigmas thrown into one single paragraph?


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