If Anyone Ever Treats You Like Shit For Being in the Adult Industry...
Don't feel bad, just have them watch this:
http://sharesix.com/x0vvgyirrm6v
http://sharesix.com/eon7qf50jqns
They even mention a couple who do webcam shows! As a long-time fan of Penn & Teller's Bullshit and Penn Jillette himself, I am proud to say these are the episodes that helped me make up my mind to say, "Slut-shaming is BULLSHIT!" and edged me along in my decision to become a webcam model. I grew up in a SUPER Christian household where slut-shaming was acceptable and sexuality was never to be discussed. It was very hard for me as a Christian to come to terms with being a webcam model because I was like...trained to believe it was wrong, as most people often are. I have since determined that Christ would love me no matter what and am very open about my job. However, every now and then, someone lays a guilt trip on me and I find it helps to watch these episodes and feel proud of what I do. Hope this helps someone else out, too, or at least gives you great pleasure to see adult work being portrayed positively. :) <3
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The fact that sex work is taboo and people look down on it yet intrigued by it makes it even more exciting to me.
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The fact that sex work is taboo and people look down on it yet intrigued by it makes it even more exciting to me.
Right! This is going to sound totally weird, but as someone interested in possibly going to school for mortuary science, I relate it to the topic of death in a sort of way. Nobody talks about it. Everyone knows it exists and that it's inevitable. It's a taboo and touchy subject most times...yet everyone is secretly fascinated with it! It's crazy how people can make something so natural seem so...wrong.
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Hypocrisy is my #1 turn-off.
I know that just about every guy who would call me a worthless slut is jacking it to pictures, videos, or conversations with girls just like me when he's alone at night.
And just about every girl who talks that shit has a boyfriend who is, too.
So I say let 'em. I like having enough self-awareness to realize that I LOVE getting my rocks off and it's the last thing that deserves an iota of shame.
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Hypocrisy is my #1 turn-off.
I know that just about every guy who would call me a worthless slut is jacking it to pictures, videos, or conversations with girls just like me when he's alone at night.
And just about every girl who talks that shit has a boyfriend who is, too.
So I say let 'em. I like having enough self-awareness to realize that I LOVE getting my rocks off and it's the last thing that deserves an iota of shame.
Well said. <3
As they mentioned in the video, I think the idea that someone can make a comfortable living just having sex bothers a lot of people lol. Jealous haters ahaha.
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My ex and I got into screaming matches over the fact that he was super into the friend who got me into camming, but would never date her (when we were split up) because she was a cam model. I'm like, do you look at porn? Of course you do. So it's ok to look at porn, but not date someone who works in the industry? That's mysoginist and de-humanising behaviour.
Some days I wish that asshole would try to out me. I'd give him a public dressing down, the likes of which this century has never seen.
I always maintain a sex positive room. I will never shame someone for their sexual proclivities unless it involves non-consent (including animals) or minors. I will always support my fellow sisters and brothers who are fellow sex workers. I am proud of who I am and what I do.
Ladies and gents, this work takes serious BALLS. We have the gall, and every last one of us is worth the highest price we can charge.
Even though I'm having a shitty run these last couple weeks, I get down on my proverbial knees and thank (insert deity here) that I have this job as an option.
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Ladies and gents, this work takes serious BALLS. We have the gall, and every last one of us is worth the highest price we can charge.
Even though I'm having a shitty run these last couple weeks, I get down on my proverbial knees and thank (insert deity here) that I have this job as an option.
Amen. Before camming, I worked a couple retail jobs and one (very brief, VERY bad) stint as a telemarketer. Every day at every one of those jobs I had to do and say things that weren't the right thing to do and weren't the right thing to say. If I didn't toe the company line, I was punished.
Web design and camming are the only two jobs I do now, and they're the only ones during which I can feel GOOD about my hustle. This job is all about mutual benefit for the performer and client. Can't say that about most entry-level jobs these days. Fuck societal expectations, I'm getting this dude off and I'm getting the paycheck I deserve.
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I loved watching both these vids ;)
brought funny but still in a enlightening way ;Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for links
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As a long-time fan of Penn & Teller's Bullshit and Penn Jillette himself....
OT: I saw their show recently and got Penn's autograph after the show, man he is soooo tall, I want climb him like a horny koala
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Thanks for links
OT: I saw their show recently and got Penn's autograph after the show, man he is soooo tall, I want climb him like a horny koala
No problem. :D
Also, OMFG you'd be living my dream if you had actually climbed him like a horny koala. How did you know?
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...pse2e8145f.gif
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Warning those links acted funny & fucked with my computer.
Nasty to upload viruses on this site.
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These were great, thank you for sharing!
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Warning those links acted funny & fucked with my computer.
Nasty to upload viruses on this site.
Oops, I'm sorry about that! :/ Here's some links to the episodes from youtube. I guess I should have looked for them on there, first:
Prostitution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehpdidDnTMk
War on Porn: Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-mjxnFmxo
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbjeYaUTDN0
Enjoy!
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I loved those, thanks for posting. They made me think of something I always wondered about. Why is it prostitution is illegal... but pornography isn't? Aren't the participants in both prostitution and pornography having sex for money?
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Right! but as someone interested in possibly going to school for mortuary science, I relate it to the topic of death in a sort of way. Nobody talks about it. Everyone knows it exists and that it's inevitable. It's a taboo and touchy subject most times...yet everyone is secretly fascinated with it! It's crazy how people can make something so natural seem so...wrong.
you are?? that's what i want to get into soo bad! i've always wanted to be a mortician, how is it going? i know im threadjacking, but i think that's awesome :)
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you are?? that's what i want to get into soo bad! i've always wanted to be a mortician, how is it going? i know im threadjacking, but i think that's awesome :)
It's been VERY difficult. I'm not even in mortuary school yet and I'm questioning whether or not I want to actually go through with this as a career. :/ So many "traditional", close-minded people in the profession. It is a CUT-THROAT industry and the funeral directors I've met so far will do most anything to make each other look bad, even if they aren't direct competition! So say, if they happened to find out I'm a camgirl, I'd be fucked. I just know in their world of "professionalism" and tearing one another down that it would never fly that I'd had a background in adult work. :/ I'm thinking of doing something more in sociology. Hell, I have no idea. I've got two years to decide, though. ;D lol
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It's been VERY difficult. I'm not even in mortuary school yet and I'm questioning whether or not I want to actually go through with this as a career. :/ So many "traditional", close-minded people in the profession. It is a CUT-THROAT industry and the funeral directors I've met so far will do most anything to make each other look bad, even if they aren't direct competition! So say, if they happened to find out I'm a camgirl, I'd be fucked. I just know in their world of "professionalism" and tearing one another down that it would never fly that I'd had a background in adult work. :/ I'm thinking of doing something more in sociology. Hell, I have no idea. I've got two years to decide, though. ;D lol
If you're interested in end-of-life issues, have you considered gerontology? It's basically the psychology/sociology of aging/elderly populations. The social sciences tend to be more liberal, and aging/death is a truly interesting field. :)
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Don't feel bad, just have them watch this:
http://sharesix.com/x0vvgyirrm6v
http://sharesix.com/eon7qf50jqns
They even mention a couple who do webcam shows! As a long-time fan of Penn & Teller's Bullshit and Penn Jillette himself, I am proud to say these are the episodes that helped me make up my mind to say, "Slut-shaming is BULLSHIT!" and edged me along in my decision to become a webcam model. I grew up in a SUPER Christian household where slut-shaming was acceptable and sexuality was never to be discussed. It was very hard for me as a Christian to come to terms with being a webcam model because I was like...trained to believe it was wrong, as most people often are. I have since determined that Christ would love me no matter what and am very open about my job. However, every now and then, someone lays a guilt trip on me and I find it helps to watch these episodes and feel proud of what I do. Hope this helps someone else out, too, or at least gives you great pleasure to see adult work being portrayed positively. :) <3
Allow for me to say that this not only happens to webcam girls but also phone sex operators as well. I have been working as phone sex operator since I was 18 years old; people tried to laid guilt on me for years. However, I never will be ashamed of a job in which allows me to pay all my bills on time, become a better salesperson, and helps with my schooling. Plus Jesus everyone equally :) Girl, keep your head up and a smile on your face.
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Our bodies, our choices. Period.
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Thank you for posting that. I especially enjoyed the one on prostitution.
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Thank you so much for sharing. Sometimes it's hard being a sex worker in a society that generally frowns upon such work. It's nice to have a reminder that such views are Bullshit.