Myths About Escorts and Prostitutes: 
Separating the Facts from other poeple's wishful Fiction

FICTION: 
Prostitutes set themselves up for violence.
FACT: 
Really, and how about the owner of the 7/11 or liquor stores. Do they
set themselves up for violence just by existing? Get real. Nobody
ever asks to be assaulted. And just because these women are trusting
and putting themselves out there doesn’t mean they are asking for it.
It’s just that many female adult entertainers are intimidated by the
police who give them a hard time and look down upon them. These
prejudicial social attitudes only prevent escorts and prostitutes
from reporting acts of violence against them.

FICTION: 
Prostitutes are victims.
FACT: 
Why? Some "recovery" programs and women's groups may like to regard
prostitutes as victims, but it is their own narrow minded wishful
thinking that forces them to do so. Many current and former
prostitutes believe themselves to be nothing of the kind. Victim
mentality is a convenient way of absolving oneself of blame for
making ill-conceived or unwise choices. Many women who are escorts
and prostitutes don’t feel what they do is ill conceived or unwise.
For many they enjoy it, and they enjoy the money and freedom the
money affords them. Typically this psycho babble is applied to female
rather than male prostitutes, and tries to reinforce the outdated
notion that women don't know what's good for them and are incapable
not only of making healthy decisions on their own, but also of taking
responsibility for those decisions. Most prostitutes know why they do
it and have no problem with their decisions, and the lifestyle.

FICTION: 
All prostitutes are survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
FACT: 
Some are, some are not, so what? Even for those who are, that doesn't
mean that they are incapable of making decisions for themselves. And
again if they are, you’re still operating under the premise that
prostitution is bad and somehow they are psychologically messed up
because they chose prostitution.

FICTION: 
Prostitutes need to be saved from themselves.
FACT: 
Says who? Conservative society? Frigid women? Fat, less attractive,
or prudish women, because they are threatened by attractive women who
are so beautiful they can be paid to have sex? Face it, prostitutes
have minds of their own. If you want to patronize prostitutes, just
visit one with your wallet in hand, and it’ll probably be you that’ll
be the one who needs saving. Because once you spend time with a
worldly and uninhibited woman whose aim is to please you, you just
may have a difficult time enjoying private time with your wife
again.

FICTION: 
Many prostitutes are drug addicts.
FACT: 
So are many accountants, doctors, lawyers, stock brokers, and
businessmen. Although voluntary drug rehabilitation programs should
be open to prostitutes (and other professionals), forced
rehabilitation seldom works. Next…

FICTION: 
All prostitutes suffer from low self-esteem.
FACT: 
Not is they aren’t ashamed of what they are doing. Prostitutes are
people -- some have better self-images than others, and each one
responds differently to his or her circumstances. Being rewarded for
being physically attractive and sexually proficient is hardly barrier
to self-esteem. Come on. You’ll have to do better than this…

FICTION: 
Prostitution is always a degrading act.
FACT: 
There you go again putting your values as other people’s values.
There is nothing degrading about earning an honest living the best
way you know how. Some would regard janitorial work as degrading,
being a garbage man as degrading, but we know that's not the case
either.

FICTION: 
Prostitutes are just lazy; they're trying to avoid "real" work.
FACT: 
You may hate your job so your views don’t count. In many cases,
circumstances prevent prostitutes from finding "real" work, no matter
how much they would like to. They may have arrest records which
ensure that no firm will hire them, they may lack marketable skills,
they may be single mothers unable to find affordable day care during
working hours, or they may be homeless. And if you can imagine the
times, places, and customers these gals have to put up with, you
wouldn’t say they are lazy and avoiding work.

FICTION: 
Prostitution is an easy way to make lots of money.
FACT: 
Prostitution is not always easy, and can be downright dangerous. The
monetary rewards are usually exaggerated: if prostitutes made half as
much money as some people think, there would be no homeless or
impoverished hookers on the street. Also, their customers range from
varying degrees of hygiene, aggressiveness, nastiness, and these
women sometimes have to go through very uncomfortable sessions to
make money to pay their bills.

FICTION: 
Prostitutes want off the street.
FACT: 
While many prostitutes would probably move off the street if they
could find an alternative way of making a living, many would not. The
street offers certain advantages that off-street alternatives don't,
like the ability to see your clients beforehand, the safety of
working in numbers, the social aspect of working among colleagues,
the absence of overhead costs, the freedom to choose your own working
hours, and the comparatively fast turnover of customers.

FICTION: 
Arresting prostitutes will keep them off the street.
FACT: 
Giving prostitutes police records reduces their chances of finding a
job and further locks them into prostitution. Encumbering them with
stiff fines despite the fact that in many cases they have no other
sources of income means that they will have to go back on the street
in order to pay. Arresting prostitutes only gets them off the street
when it puts them (temporarily) in jail.

FICTION: 
Prostitutes spread HIV and other STDs to the general public.
FACT: 
HIV and other STDs  have had no problem being distributed around the
public without the help of prostitutes. In reality, prostitutes are
more likely to use condoms than non-prostitutes (many places its
required), and because it’s their business to be healthy, they are
also more likely to know how to identify an STD and avoid them.

FICTION: 
Johns are misogynists, and use prostitution as a way to express their
hatred of women.
FACT: 
While a small proportion of johns do hate women, the vast majority
seek out sex workers for much more mundane reasons: adventure,
loneliness, sexual insecurity, convenience, stress relief, or plain
old horniness.




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