My Advice to Wanna-Be Escorts
Posted by H in prostitution, rape
I came across a post on Peridot Ash's Friction blog that I had missed until now, where an 18 year old girl says she wants to get into escorting.
I just can't find words to express how this saddened me.
I replied in a comment and suggested her to also read Amber's Being an Escort blog which in my opinion gives a really touching and human point of view of job.
(Actually, Peridot's and Amber's blogs are probably two of my favorites so far, as the former provides a very extensive coverage of various aspects of the industry, and the latter a profoundly personal and emotional perspective).
And now I just came across this fairly old report on the Bound, Not Gagged weblog (another very interesting source), about an escort getting gang-raped at gun-point and without getting reparation from the judicial system. This so insulting, depressing and vile, as comments on the post noted.
I think it serves as a very good example of how escorting can go *real bad*. Not only can things go wrong on many other different levels, like for instance in your personal - your relationship with your lover, kids, parents and friends - or your professional lives. But also how it can just in one split-second switch from the "innocent" sex-work to the ultimate and most humiliating of the darkest nightmares.
Of course this is an extreme case. Like winning the lottery, this is a minority on the scale of probabilities. But it definitely *is* a possibility. A risk.
So, if you want to get into the escorting business, think about this twice:
http://deepthroated.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/hooker-raped-and-robbed-by-justice-system/
I'll attach the full-text in a comment just in case it would ever get removed.
EDIT:
additionally, this post is also potentially interesting to make wanna-be escorts think twice about it, for various reasons. Though it condemns the ways of objectification of the ads it features and their graphic representation, the sole fact that they exist warns against the potential dangers of the industry:
http://www.spreadmagazine.org/blog/?p=416