I'm not referring to the adult bookstore...they never got back to me to set up an interview, even though I tried calling them several times. Nope, I was thinking more along the lines of being an escort. I even took out an ad on a website, I have another website ad pending approval, and I'm going to try getting ads into the papers, too. I figure that this way, it's a little less dangerous than walking the streets, both in terms of less chance of being busted by the police, and because I can say in my ad that I'm TS...that way, I don't think that I'll be as likely to get beaten up/murdered by someone who freaks out when I do tell them.
Even if I do get a lab job or something, I'd still consider doing this type of thing. I mean, extra cash is always nice, and it might allow me to be able to afford sex reassignment surgery earlier. Besides, I don't think that there's anything dishonourable about doing sex work...I can think of many things that I'd be more ashamed of doing for a living. I mean, I don't know if I've said this anywhere you've been able to see it, but I wish I could go back and do my college education differently so that I could get into a field in which I could help people directly. To me, it seems that sex work has a lot more potential to directly help people (provide needed human contact, things along those lines...) than working in a lab does. I think that it provides a needed service in this world, and shouldn't be criminalised.
Of course, I'm aware that it has its down sides, too, but I've thought about this a lot lately (all the free time that I have on my hands, you see...), and I figure that that isn't too much different from working at any other job. Diseases? I'd use condoms and other protective devices to lessen the risk, just as I would wear goggles and work behind the sash of a fume hood if I were working with anything dangerous in a laboratory. Legal penalties? Well, I guess that it's not illegal to work in a chem lab (unless it's a meth lab or something...), but I won't be walking the street, and I can (and have) made the disclaimer in my advertisements that money paid is for companionship only, and anything else that might happen is up to the decision of my clients and me. I've thought this through, and I think that it's a perfectly viable option for me to take.
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Date: 2004-06-02 10:07 pm (UTC)Even if I do get a lab job or something, I'd still consider doing this type of thing. I mean, extra cash is always nice, and it might allow me to be able to afford sex reassignment surgery earlier. Besides, I don't think that there's anything dishonourable about doing sex work...I can think of many things that I'd be more ashamed of doing for a living. I mean, I don't know if I've said this anywhere you've been able to see it, but I wish I could go back and do my college education differently so that I could get into a field in which I could help people directly. To me, it seems that sex work has a lot more potential to directly help people (provide needed human contact, things along those lines...) than working in a lab does. I think that it provides a needed service in this world, and shouldn't be criminalised.
Of course, I'm aware that it has its down sides, too, but I've thought about this a lot lately (all the free time that I have on my hands, you see...), and I figure that that isn't too much different from working at any other job. Diseases? I'd use condoms and other protective devices to lessen the risk, just as I would wear goggles and work behind the sash of a fume hood if I were working with anything dangerous in a laboratory. Legal penalties? Well, I guess that it's not illegal to work in a chem lab (unless it's a meth lab or something...), but I won't be walking the street, and I can (and have) made the disclaimer in my advertisements that money paid is for companionship only, and anything else that might happen is up to the decision of my clients and me. I've thought this through, and I think that it's a perfectly viable option for me to take.