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Milo Janus

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10 hours ago, LookingAround said:

A close friend of mine is a “recovering escort” (my term) who retired because he said that escorting was bad for his mental health. I asked him to elaborate and one of his key points/issues was clients who wanted to control him. This thread is one such example. 

Guess what?  Most people who work are "controlled" by others to some extent, whether it's their boss, a legal system that dictates appropriate behavior in their profession, the customers/clients who pay them, etc.  I'm sure I wouldn't continue to get paid if I told management where I work that I was now going to only do what I wanted because I was no longer interested in being "controlled" by them. 

I know that escorting is a much more personal line of work so the "controlling" might be perceived as even worse, but personally I have to chuckle at the notion that someone would think a request to remove nail polish is an attempt to control.  It's a request, one that can be denied.  If you're a provider who wants to keep his nails polished, then simply tell the client you won't do that and then the client can choose to move on.  It really isn't that hard.  "Controlling" to me conveys something a lot more significant -- like coercing someone to do something they don't want to do by threat, intimidation, or inducing some mind altering substance to the scene.  Like a pimp exploiting someone sexually, or someone attempting to blackmail the other party, or someone forcing or manipulating someone to put their health at risk. 

There sure is a lot of histrionics here, attempting to equate a rather benign request (can you remove nail polish, not can you take a knife and slash your torso 10 times because I like the sight of blood) to some hugely offensive act that requires castigation. 

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