This is how they're selling this crap. A prostitute who likes having sex. That's just a whore making money and liking her job. I don't know what woman would champion this but hey, you never know. There is nothing positive toward your character about being a prostitute. Even a stripper is less demeaning. Your letting others use your body for money is the lowest way possible. How exactly is that empowering? Sad, vey sad.
shareYou don't know? In the new celebrity-everyone has 15 minutes if fame universe what ever works is fine. Kim Kardashian takes off her clothes, and that's supposed to be an empowering message to women and girls everywhere. Forget actually achieving anything because of hard work. Ugh. It's so banal and nauseating, but because they sex it up it with good looking actors it makes it okay.
The chances of a prostitute having gorgeous, fit men as her customers is pretty much fantasy.
Women are confused about "work" and let me just address that instead of the idea of "pleasure". There are mixed messages coming from women more than men. There was a time where many women blamed the men for actions, but women are just as cruel.
There are women who go through daily derogation at the hands of their work superiors/superiors for a paycheck as well. Many cannot draw a comparison between the two as they can be seen as "making money in the lowest way possible" for women. However, one is seen as "okay" to a point, while the other is a moral and/or ethical judgement.
Before anyone thinks that I think that this line of work for women is okay..let me clarify: it's NOT okay for ME. But for those who choose this type of work, it is what they think and make of it, not what I think. For those who have ethical and moral dilemmas with it - fine. Just get that across to the men who seek and hire these types of women to hold the same standards for themselves -- and maybe this would not be an issue for women who pursue this as a line of work at all.
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Choosing high-priced NYC call girls who cater to rich, good-looking Wall Street types to represent 'sex work'...is like watching the CEO of Amazon work, to represent what it's like to work in one of his warehouses.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
This series only goes to show a woman who wants some fast money has an easy option: whore yourself out which is an easy job to be honest. Now theres drama and people who will insult you but at the end of the day the only "empowerment" that is shown is a woman will do anything to get easy cash, and love how her rich clients buy her things.
I see nothing wrong with being an escort, stripper, or hooker but do not try to claim "female empowerment" when all your doing is keeping the oldest profession alive in which women use their body to get what they want.
Men can do the same but its much much easier for women to sell themselves and no matter how you dress it up: a hoe's a hoe.
"Always two there are , a master and an apprentice"
Who said it was empowering or that this show is trying to make it seem as such?
shareI liked the idea of showing a girl who doesn’t come from an oppressive background, who is intelligent and has a lot going for her, that ends up in sex work. Not the other story, which has been told before
Lowest way possible? That is subjective. In the NFL, men sacrifice their minds and bodies, choose a lifetime of pain in exchange for money.
sharei got a theory that with the internet and free porn access on the internet that the hollywood side is capitalizing on this by .Trying to mainstream porn case and point look at the last episode of this show its straight out of a porn film .Its a long ass sex scene graphic boundary pushing sex scenes im sure if they could of gone hardcore they would of .Also the ratio of girls willing to do these types of scenes out weighs the ones who say no .
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There are many women and men who do this, some do it cause they love it others do it cause schools like Yale, Harvard, MIT, Oxford even small community colleges are expensive. Doesn't matter what you are studying cause in the end you are piled up with debts at school, bills from water, electricity, mortgages, car mortgages, food, clothes, etc etc. They can work in two resturants even three but it isn't enough to pay off all those bills so some decide to turn to escort and stripping or one over the other to make ends meet, doesn't make them bad people. If we lived in a society where going to school didn't cost so much then maybe none of this would be going on.
shareWhen I was at UCLA and working at one of the food outlets, I met a guy who was a pimp. It took him a while to get around to what kind of job he was offering me, but then my naïve self finally got it! Duh I'm sure he recruited several coeds into being hookers. Man, and I was poor in college, but I was so offended when I finally figured out what he was after!
shareThese people in escort services are not hookers walking the streets waiting for cars to pass by and being beaten by pimps, they are successful and consenting adults who provide companionship for other adults. As long as there are no children or violence being done to the escort then there is no harm being done.
shareDidn't say there was. The guy I met at UCLA was definitely a pimp though or at least a facilitator, so maybe like the Jacqueline character in this show. And I don't think he was proposing that coeds walk the streets and whatnot, probably an escort type of service he was proposing. I didn't stick around to find out the details!
shareGood thing you didn't go for that guy, I hope you became what you wanted to become after UCLA. I have friends who had dreams after college and didn't succeed even when they got their degrees and all.
shareWhy, yes, thanks. I was an English major at UCLA and I became a writer.
shareThat is a career that anyone can do.
shareLOL That's kind of a back-handed compliment. You're implying that I didn't need to go to UCLA to become a writer. Well, if you want all the gory details, I worked as a technical writer and trainer for 30 years and then had my first book published about 10 years ago. And you're wrong - writing most certainly is NOT a career that anyone can do. Do you know how many people want to write a book, intend to write a book, have a book idea in their heads or have actually even finished writing a book (much less common)but can't get it published or go the easy route and self-publish it? Millions. I have written over 30 books for the same publisher. I'm sorry, but that's not something ANYONE can do. Did my English degree from UCLA help me become a writer? Of course. I read hundreds of poems, plays, and novels, analyzed them and wrote hundreds of papers that were held to a much higher standard of writing than any other major on that campus. Can someone write 30 books WITHOUT a college degree? Of course. I know many of those people. Finally, maybe you're too young to remember, but in the old days when a college education didn't cost the same as house, students didn't just go to college to find a job, although having a college degree, ANY college degree is helpful in the workforce and leads to more promotions and higher salaries. We went to college to exchange ideas, get exposed to subjects we wouldn't normally have encountered, engage in scholarly discussions, and yes, take several steps toward independence. I'm sorry your friends had a disappointing experience with UCLA. Mine was wonderful, inspired me, led me to accomplish great things in my life -- and even gave me a story to tell about a pimp!
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