Do you seriously buy this bullshit that being a prostitute is a hunky dory existence to aspire to? People work very hard to pull themselves out of those straits that this messed up in the head naive white girl is throwing herself into gleefully and needlessly.

You have confused dilletantism with purposeful work. They are not remotely the same thing.

Even Ayn Rand admitted that children are not capable of rational self-interest. I read that article too and I can't help thinking that Hustle is a very young very messed up person herself.

Actually, its incredibly relevant to this conversation. People need purpose to direct their lives and to feel genuinely happy with their time on earth. It's one thing to work a shit job as a means to an end and quite another to live a life with no inner direction. To say 'I wouldn't work if I didn't have to' is quite…

If money was no object would you still be doing it? What I am suggesting is that there is some hostage mentality going on. Simply because one job abuses you less than the other one doesn't make the first job an ideal or worthy situation.

I feel sad for them too. I think labor conditions in the country are really really fucked up.

re: a black or brown person from low income family - it would bother me even more. For very different reasons.

No, I haven't. But your situation is still sad to me and it says more about labor conditions in America than it does the joys of sex work.

It's not consensual sex if someone is paying for it. Look, I know guys who have paid for sex, to a man they are misogynists and limited human beings. There's no gray area there. Since you don't think it's so bad and her choices are better than yours, why don't you become an escort too. What's stopping you?

"I've never felt more in control than at my current job."

Really, pointing out that someone with all the fucking privileges a society has to offer should do something more useful with herself than sell her body to scum bag guys is racism now?

You'll never convince me that being a sex worker doesn't impact your self respect or self respect. Screwing lowlifes all day has got to have some effect on you as a person. This is what she chose when she could have chosen something else. I'm sorry but I have looked at her drawings and read her writings, she does not…

Sure it's not unethical but come on, what about pursuing some real achievements? Her writing and drawing isn't a serious occupation by the looks of it. My irritation is that this girl has advantages that many women who are cornered into sex work don't. And she just coasts on white middle class privilege. It's not…

Exactly, it's not something to be proud of. It's something to get away from as soon as possible. This woman could easily make other choices.

Look, I've known guys who admit to paying for sex. None of them are what I would call upstanding people. Men who pay for sex are losers and the loserness will reveal itself in other aspects of their lives. At best, they are mediocre people.

I know so many people who work day jobs to support artistic endeavors. It's not like she doesn't have other choices.

I think people are irritated by how low she sets the bar for herself. For someone who is born white and middle class , that is with pretty much all the advantages society has to offer, to choose to set the bar as low as it possibly can go in terms of achievement is really grating. Helping men cheat on their wives for…

Those guys are scum, utter scum. What irritates me about this woman is that she could easily choose to do something else other than associate with scum. She's white and middle class. There are lots of people who draw and write who exhibit or publish who find day jobs that don't involve sexing scum. She says she enjoys…

Um. I wouldn't be so mean about it but yeah, I agree with you about the big picture. Hilary Clinton and Michelle Obama are women to look up to.

Look, I get that working as a high end escort is different from hanging out on a street corner in terms of violence, abuse, pay rate. I looked at this woman's website and read what she had to say. Let's not kid ourselves, this author isn't writing the sequel to Being and Time, or positioning herself as the next Marina…