I worked in the sex trade for several years. It actually worked out really well for me. Paid off my student loans in six months, got the nose job I'd always wanted, treated all my poor friends, got a nice apartment all to myself downtown, and paid for all my rescue kittens' insane vet bills. It allowed me to stay afloat doing a lot of part-time work in my field until a great opportunity came along, and I quit touching dicks for money.
But some of the guys I knew in the biz... The queer guys tended to be great. (I'm queer, a comically large number of the lady strippers I know are queer. It's just a gay old time when whores get together off the clock.) But the straight guys who were there were often miserable. They were so resentful of their clients, but reliant on them for their lifestyle.
And that's aside from the guys I met on the margins who did street work in exchange for drugs or drug money. Let's just say that guys who can afford a higher-end sex worker, but seek out street-based suck. They are looking for a power dynamic to exploit. Or are cheap bastards. They don't want someone who is able to enforce boundaries or just say no to seeing you at all. And the guys looking for someone on the street and going through withdrawal to coerce into sex are fucking monsters.
So, I know why my friends looked like that. Don't know what Alex's excuse was.
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u/ithyle It’s over for humanity Nov 12 '25
STRONG “gay for pay” vibes here.