paige_orion
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Waking up to the rampant whorephobia in this thread is so disheartening.
Camgirls are sexworkers too. We pay our bills by giving people orgasms, which fits us nicely under the sex worker umbrella. Just like porn stars, just like phone sex operators, just like full service sex workers or escorts. No matter how we interact with our regulars, whether it be via a physical or digital connection, we are all equal to each other. And here on ACF, we have sex workers of ALL types. Which means we don't take kindly to people coming here and showing disdain and mockery for our full-service brothers and sisters.
There are full service sex workers on this forum. You have spoken with some, several times. They are beautiful, brilliant, amazing people who fill my heart with awe because of their kindness, their willingness to help others, their passion and their strength. They aren't disease-ridden creatures - they are human beings with feelings, who do a job just like you and are worthy of human decency and respect. I always find it so funny that in my experience, the kindest people in the WORLD have been sex workers. But the cruelest? The ones who think that an entire group of strangers are worthy of being mocked, that they deserve to be the butt of jokes because *surely* they are diseased and disgusting... It's often the non-sex workers who are surprisingly uneducated about sex as a whole. This ignorance isn't just annoying to deal with. But whorephobic mentality is what makes sex workers vulnerable in the first place. We face this kind of stigma All. The. Time. And it's effing exhausting.
And before you claim again that it was just a joke.... I want you to know that the same people who think all sex workers must carry disease are often the same people who think that sex workers are less than human, though often they think this on a subconscious level. And thus, sex workers lose their children, their jobs, their families. They are thrown in jail. A few even lose their lives to psychos who think they are disposable - then they lose their names and their humanity in headlines, reduced to just a job. Making whorephobic jokes and assumptions isn't cute. It's ignorant and heart-breaking, and it helps to create, spread, and normalize the stigma we face every single day. I mean... That should be fairly obvious, right? Everyone knows that racist jokes help spread a culture where racism flourishes. Jokes about rape normalize the existence of rape and dismiss trauma as giggle-fodder. So it shouldn't be surprising to realize that whorephobic and slut-shaming jokes help spread the attitude that all sex workers are diseased and less than human, not worthy of respect and human decency. You might find it absolutely hilarious or think it's no big deal, but to those of us who have to face such attitudes every day, who have suffered personal losses because of it... We aren't really laughing.
And speaking of diseases... There are so many human beings who have STIs. They are incredibly common and I know for a fact that you've interacted with several people who have had one. Not because they are sex workers but because a majority of human beings have or have had one in the past. It's strange because every single person I know who has received an STI received it from a monogamous partner who thought they were free of STIs. Civilian people don't take sex-health as seriously - assuming that only "whores" and "sluts" need to be careful or tested. I know SO MANY people who have never had an STI test or who have only done it once or twice in their entire lives, and trust their partners' word that they are STI-free. But none of them are sex workers. The sex workers I know are INCREDIBLY thorough about sex-safety. They get tested and tested often, they take PREP, they are firm believers in condoms, and they are educated on the risk factors that facilitate the spread of STIs. If I had to trust my sexual health to any partner - I'd choose a sex worker over a non-sex worker vanilla dude any day. But that doesn't change the very simple fact: STIs don't make a person "dirty". They don't make anyone less than and fighting an STI doesn't mean anyone deserves to be mocked and shamed. We don't shame people for getting the cold, the flu - we don't shame people who get chicken pox. So it's incredibly silly to shame people for catching viruses and bacteria that are surprisingly common.
Sex worker or not, STI or not, no one deserves to have to face shame and stigma, to be the butt of jokes, especially in a corner of the internet where sex workers of all types are accepted and supported. So before you throw around horrible jokes like they are normal, remember who you are speaking to. Would you say demeaning jokes like that to the faces of full-service sex workers in person? Or look someone in the eyes to make fun of a disease that has brought them pain and shame and heartache? Probably not. But you did that here. You don't know who's a FSSW or not, just like you don't know who has an STI or not. And that's true both in the real world AND the internet. Something to keep in mind the next time.
Personally, I'd rather judge someone based on how they treat others (esp, whether they treat marginalized communities with decency and respect - or use them as the subject of jokes meant to mock & spread shame). Not on the way they pay their bills or any illnesses they may be fighting.
