Whorebaiting

[FaustOust]

You’re Not A Sex Worker — Stop Pretending To Be One

WWW.HUFFPOST.COM

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“Inaccurately claiming to be a sex worker feels disrespectful to people who experience discrimination and...

I stumbled across the above article about civilians appropriating the experience of sex workers for their own benefit.  It seems to address the issue mostly among straight women, but  is this a phenomenon in the gay community? I can’t imagine why someone would fake something like that. Are there men who want others to believe that they are or have been sex workers when in fact they were not? Does the appropriation of the experience of sex workers buy  some sort of street cred in the gay community?

[rvwnsd]

Perhaps I am missing something, but I don't see where the fitness pole dancers claimed to be sex workers. Perhaps the author doesn't see pole dancing outside of a strip club to be stigmatized, but there are people who assign a stigma to all pole dancing, in or out of a club. As for someone who worked as a stripper for "barely a year" having the audacity to write a memoir about her year of stripping, the author did, in fact, spend a year stripping.

I think the author of this piece ought to open her mind.

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

Regardless if she chose to be called a sex worker or stripper, the author wouldn't be my first choice to hire if I was looking to employ a cotillion instructor and she listed either term to describe her background in dance.

Edited June 5 by Vegas_Millennial

[nate_sf]

I found it to be an odd article, and I too found myself asking if there is an equivalent in the gay community. I don't think there is. Do guys try to present themselves as having escorted, when they haven't? Doesn't seem like it.

Maybe it's different for guys who've done stripping. The only example I can think of is Channing Tatum, who has made an identity for himself based on his past experience as a stripper. But I can't think of any others.

[+ sniper]

I thought it was more about using  "their" terminology and fitness influencers acting like they give a shit about strippers . Complaining about language appropriation seems pointless given language constantly evolves, but the writer sorta had a point. She just didn't express it effectively IMO.

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

6 hours ago, sniper said:

I thought it was more about using  "their" terminology and fitness influencers acting like they give a shit about strippers . Complaining about language appropriation seems pointless given language constantly evolves, but the writer sorta had a point. She just didn't express it effectively IMO.

I proudly call myself a slut, not a whore . Most people who meet me and get to know me call me a whore, but I remind them I service men free of charge so "slut" is more accurate than "whore".

I tell others if they want to call me a whore, they better first give me $10 and let me suck their dicks.  Otherwise, it's akin to cultural appropriation.

Edited June 7 by Vegas_Millennial