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Redefining Sex Work
East Bay Express ^ | October 17, 2012 | Ellen Cushing

Posted on 10/19/2012 8:30:43 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai

The East Bay is home to a new — and growing — group of sex workers who are educated, empowered, and open about what they do for a living. But Prop 35 would force them back underground.

Jolene Parton is a ho. She's also a Berkeley native, a comic-book fanatic, a Dolly Parton aficionado (hence the name, which is fake), an NPR listener, and a big fan of Vietnamese food. She wears big round glasses rimmed in translucent pink plastic, and, in her ears, jade-green plugs. She's redheaded and rosy-skinned and pretty in the kind of way that would be at home in a J. Crew catalog, but for the pierced septum and stylishly half-shaved head and aforementioned plugs; as is, she's probably more like American Apparel material. And she's been working in the sex industry, broadly defined, for about four years, first doing odd jobs at what she describes as the "entry-level" end of the sex-work spectrum — foot fetish stuff, artsy nude photography, one night during which she "cuddled with a guy in his apartment for money" — and then in porn and at various peepshows and strip clubs; a bit over a year ago, she started escorting. And when she says she loves her job — which she does, often and unbidden — she does so with the kind of steady-eyed enthusiasm that's hard to fake.

"It's been great, honestly," she told me a couple weeks ago at an Oakland Chinatown lunch spot, steam rising from the vermicelli bowl in front of her and fogging her lenses.

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KEYWORDS: sex
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1 posted on 10/19/2012 8:30:45 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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These ho’s are making a lot of tax free money! Where’s the IRS to audit them?


2 posted on 10/19/2012 8:32:07 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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Where’s the IRS to audit them?

What kind of audit did you have in mind? Their books?

3 posted on 10/19/2012 8:34:50 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: AmericanSamurai
Chirpy nonjudgmental writing, it all gives me an upset stomach.
4 posted on 10/19/2012 8:37:23 AM PDT by Hans
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To: AmericanSamurai
Jolene Parton is a ho. She's also a Berkeley native, . . . . . an NPR listener, . . . .

She's doing her research to have something to talk about with her Dem clients. They can discuss America's inherently racist society or Nina Totenberg's views on the Supreme Court's sexism while they are going at it.

5 posted on 10/19/2012 8:38:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Jolene Parton is a ho. She’s also a Berkeley native, a comic-book fanatic, a Dolly Parton aficionado (hence the name, which is fake), an NPR listener, and a big fan of Vietnamese food. She wears big round glasses rimmed in translucent pink plastic, and, in her ears, jade-green plugs. She’s redheaded and rosy-skinned and pretty in the kind of way that would be at home in a J. Crew catalog, but for the pierced septum and stylishly half-shaved head and aforementioned plugs; as is, she’s probably more like American Apparel material.

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This thread IS PERFECTLY FINE without pics.


6 posted on 10/19/2012 8:39:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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"the pierced septum and stylishly half-shaved head and aforementioned plugs".

Er, she escorts the guys where exactly (besides the nearest bed)?

7 posted on 10/19/2012 8:42:58 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Responsibility2nd
This thread IS PERFECTLY FINE without pics.

I disagree.....


8 posted on 10/19/2012 8:43:13 AM PDT by Right Brother
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They aren’t paying any taxes, imagine how much these whores can save if they do save their money. Although if they continue whoring into old age, not a pretty sight.


9 posted on 10/19/2012 8:43:40 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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I remind all of you that the most self-consciously Christian society in the history of the world — the Christianized Roman Empire after Theodosius outlawed paganism — had no laws against prostitution. The penances for fornication applied by the Church back in those days were quite stern, but it was not seen as a matter for the civil arm to enforce sanctions against.


10 posted on 10/19/2012 8:43:44 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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Chirpy nonjudgmental writing, it all gives me an upset stomach.

Leftist NLP tactics - throw X technique at Y subject to impose Z emotional re-programming.

And then demand public imitation - or you're voted off the island.

Liberals: You don't know them. You only think you do.

11 posted on 10/19/2012 8:43:54 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Yeah I haven't forgotten the scumbags in Oakland who want police to leave those child prostitutes alone.

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12 posted on 10/19/2012 8:46:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Right Brother

My goodness, I doubt she has a pretty face like Julianne Hough.


13 posted on 10/19/2012 8:48:18 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
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See everyone----the Bam has created 'shovel ready jobs'. Plenty of customers ready to start digging. Being a ho is one profession that isnt in danger of being outsourced. What a wonderful jobs recovery for women receiving more than equal pay vs men and the women dont need to hide their private woman parts either.
14 posted on 10/19/2012 8:48:23 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Right Brother

Either she’s spent a good part of her earnings on her hair, which seems improbable, or that gorgeous color and curl is natural.

My son noticed a crockpot on the table in the corner. How practical! But where’s the cat?


15 posted on 10/19/2012 8:49:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Will this be on the test?)
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To: AmericanSamurai

typical leftists - sex has nothing to do with romance, or trust, or love

Its all WORK.

They spoil everything!


16 posted on 10/19/2012 8:49:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: AmericanSamurai

She’s smitten with her job because she’s young and the money is so good that she doesn’t recognize enough yet the degredation of her human dignity by the client and thus herself.

But she will. That’s when the drugs come in. And they have too, because the money’s too good. Thanks John for helping her out, mutually of course.


17 posted on 10/19/2012 8:52:55 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Right Brother

Ack, TRANNY!


18 posted on 10/19/2012 8:54:13 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: AmericanSamurai

Just as every thoughtful gun owner knows that gun control laws won’t stop criminals from getting guns, it must be recognized that laws against prostitution will not stop the sex trade.

I have no strong feeling about this issue but it’s hard to defend laws that make it illegal to sell something that is legal to give away.


19 posted on 10/19/2012 8:54:17 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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How did I get in this handbasket, and why is it so hot?


20 posted on 10/19/2012 8:56:26 AM PDT by ArGee (Reality - what a concept.)
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