Open letter to rabble. Never met one! What is liberation? Danish cartoons - Doing away with the Enlightenment? Gunilla Ekberg : « The best thing we can do for our sisters is to support them to get out of prostitution » Interview with Catharine A. Obviously the author used a pseudonym. I have read your exchanges on prostitution for some weeks and it has been good for me to reflect where one stands in our fucked up world. I am a former prostitute.
I started at age 13, initiated by my 20 year old boyfriend who needed the money for his dope and his school fees. During two years, I was his cash cow if the expression is not too shocking for this distinguished site Actually, I started before that if we consider the end of elementary school where the guys forced us to give them blowjobs not to be "taxed" in another way.
It has always existed but we called it by another name. In my case and that of some other girls, it was sexual "services" that we were demanded to provide for them to leave us alone. Services, ha!
He spent more to support me than what I was earning for him. I tried alone to have a go at it on the streets and there I found the street workers, guys and girls. They offered me their services, ha! They never asked me if I wanted to stop, they only keep you company, because they say they are not moralists.
That is where the insanities I have read come from : that prostitution is almost a social service, that women have the right to give sex to men and men have the right to have it, it is a personal choice, sexuality is taboo and prostitution is liberation.
