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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Very true, she’s probably one of those pagan/wiccan liberals or even atheist.
ROFLOL!
Sex is a gift from God between a man and woman, there’s no such thing as sex workers. There are whores however.
You see the reflection upper left, right?
Their books?
No...just their binders.
LOL-—good one.
Somebody famous once observed that whores aren’t paid for the sex; they’re paid to go away afterward.
Yeah. I can’t imagine what guy in the right mind would pay good money for that.
I’ll support the IRS auditing these hos just as soon as the IRS audits every other woman in the US for the free dinners, drinks, and gifts they extort from men in exchange for sex.
Operative term “right mind”.
Also, what person in their right mind would dress or behave as a member of the opposite sex?
[Yes lurkers, that IS a man in the one image posted above. No, not the Carrot Top image. I said man, not mutant.]
Methinks the crock pot is a field expedient autoclave...
So if she gets an STD who is supposed to pay for it, oh I forgot we will all be expected to “pitch in” and be responsible for HER LIFESTYLE CHOICE of being a complete SLUT...
In some ways if “Whorin” were legal it would be better because her “empoyer/pimp” would be able to pay for herhealth insurance (premiums would need to be high) or she would have to buy her own and she couldn;t skirt taxes as easily so even if we did have to help pay for her skanky behavior, at least she would be contributing to that pool as well. at the very least...
I think whorrin should be legal, but we should be able to express our 1st amendment rights and chastise publicly any one who is a whore or partakes in whoes.
I’m going to have to write a complaint to Mz. Cushing that she made us think this was a woman and not a tranny.
“SHE LOOKA LIKA MAN”!! lol
Honestly, I’m surprise no college is offering a degree in whoring yet. I mean, aside from Journalism and Political Science, of course.
Those weird ear plugs are the nastiest uglist things I have ever seen.
What's the real difference between an escort, and having a girlfriend who perpetually needs help paying her bills?
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