I had a little bit of a back and forth with a twitter account. The stance the person was taking was that when asked why you do sex work, saying that "you love it", or "like it" wasn't a complete answer, She felt it required a rebutal....I answered that I thought that doing sex work because of the love or like of it, was a complete answer. Or as complete as any other answer, that was found to be acceptable, to her. Which was for the money, out of desperation, obsession with money, obsession with attention or an adrealine junkie.....I do think that she meant to say an explanation beyond those couple of words, not a rebutal, but I could be wrong. Although after further reading of her posts, it does seem she isn't a fan of escorting, or in favor of sex work as being a positive form of employment, or a justifiable profession (she is a retired escort). So perhaps she would expect a rebutal to someone saying they loved sex work because she can't or couldn't understand how someone could like or love escorting. And there in lies many of the problems within our industry. To many are doing it, under the guise of loving it, all while they detest everything about it. Many of them detest people like myself, who do it willingly, by choice, and who like and even love much about it. She lamented that sex work wasn't like any other profession, and that if anyone loved it, they'd do it for free......I had a problem with her last point. I agree that sex work isn't like other professions, but what does that mean.....because it has inherent differences to other professions, does that make it less worthy of being accepted as work, as a profession? And don't other professions have people working within them who claim they love their work, all while taking a salary. One can like or love what they do for work and still expect payment for it, lol. Choosing a job you enjoy while getting paid, is the best of both worlds. I suppose some people just can't fathom the thought that some of us, like/love escorting........

Of course there is much wrong within our industry. We have no set rules, no price guidelines, no true leaders, nor any unbiased, well meaning platforms set up to assist us. We just have review boards who own advertising platforms, that are only concerned with making $$$$, and not advancing our industry. These boards are run by clients and other sex workers. The boards are cesspools of misogyny, bias, favortism, games, agendas, and the review sections of most, are used as weaponery to either hoist up a favored escort, or to ruin one who is disliked. They do nothing to advance our industry, instead they stagnate it with their outdated practices and beliefs. They show Joe and Jane civillian how broken our industry is, and just how indiscreet many within our industry are. The boards and many of their members cement the general publics views about escorting/sex work being bad, problematic and injurious. Many board loving escorts claim to love the independence escorting offers them, all while claiming that other escorts should do things as they do......Some board loving escorts aren't even independent. Some are trafficked, some are being encouraged to work by their partners/boyfriends/spouses, while their clients who are board members turn a blind eye. Because those escorts are liked, well reviewed, and often offer lower rates.The typical review board client tends to be the type of guy who seeks out lower rates, who jumps from woman to woman, and who views them as objects and not as independent business owners. They enjoy objectifying each escort they see and they don't view escorting as anything other than a service used to satisfy their own sexual needs.They disregard the companionship, the art of massage, the intimacy shared and the discretion many of us seek. To them it's just about graphic sex.....to them escorts are objects, not human beings.......it is because of these types of clients, that some escorts hate the profession.....So what is the fix. How do we better ourselves....getting rid of review board culture and the boards would be a start. But that is unlikely to happen, so we remain stagnant with an industry frought with unresolved issues and filled problematic people.