Drawn by TEN. This book is not that hand. Rather than being a direct response to people in the sex industry, this book is more of a for people outside of the industry on what it is we whores, strippers, camgirls, dommes, etc do and why we do it. Unfortunately, Scholl stops short of actually saying these words. Still, the overarching feeling I get is that she is trying to justify sex work to people whose value systems find us reproachable. The main goal of this book as far as I can tell is to make Christiansโin particular, those in positions of authority in Christian churchesโmore understanding of sex workers; that understanding being that we are people operating under our own perception of agency in difficult situations that lead us to sex work.
This is a conversation outside of the scope of the book, but as the sexuality of service providers was discussed, it feels like an oversimplification not to expand on it.
Reading this chapter in particular, I continuously had the experience of being incredibly dubious about what was being said, then having my faith restored by the following explanation, only to run up against something problematic again.
For example,. Some people fill them with lovers, friends or family. Some people fill them with obsessions, sports, shopping, food, drugs or alcohol. Some fill them by visiting sex workers. Others fill them with becoming sex workers. Christian sex workers: not an oxymoron, and not just for hot nun cosplay blasphemy Photo via Pinterest.
Statements like this keep coming up again and again, perplexing me. In the context of the rest of the book, which seems to focus so much on the economic factors that affect sex workers, this statement stands out as glaringly incongruent. Scholl is right, I am trying to fill a void. That void is in my wallet. While Scholl makes the point many, many times that we must understand that the sex industry is nuanced, the overall tone of the book and the vignettes she offersโaside from the biblical onesโcontinue to depict sex workers as victims and sex work as something inherently bad.
