BY Lux Alptraum
August 22, 2008
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Here at Boinkology, we love our commenters — and we want to show them that love. Every week, we pick our favorite comment, and celebrate the commenter with a little gift.

Enough with the mainstream media telling us what (they assume) it’s like to be a sex worker — let the sex workers tell us themselves! This week’s prize goes to Pixie for, well… for doing just that:

I’m not mainstream media by any standards (just a little girl with a little blog!), and I recently posted a story, just a play-by-play of my first ever sex-work experience, and my thoughts and feelings about it both at the time and now. Not glammed-up or -down one bit, just me being honest and telling a real story, for the interest and education of my readers.

…and it wasn’t more than an hour before I got a message from someone upset that I was “glamorizing prostitution” - because it was his “understanding” that “most of those women don’t really want to be in it”, and that by saying I had voluntarily chosen to be an escort/domme and enjoyed the work, I was somehow invalidating the experiences of women who are trafficked or who enter prostitution out of poverty and desperation (as opposed to me, who entered it because I was young, pretty, living in a major city, and bored with day jobs and their low pay).

I suppose writing about prostitution is like anything else - you can’t make everyone happy.

Congrats, Pixie! You get a riding crop… to whip the media into shape!