1/When I was eight, I was molested. The experience wasn't scary or painful, just confusing and uncomfortable, because I didn't understand what was going on. After becoming an adult, I experienced a strong incentive to reinterpret what had happened to me as-
I knew someone was gonna make this connection, but I really don't think this connection is meaningful. I can point to many other far more compelling reasons for why I ended up getting into sex work; I absolutely did not feel like damaged goods or like my sexuality was an issue.
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The reasons why I did sex work were more due to my strange preexisting relationship to culture; raised in a world where we were constantly conditioned to view ourselves as outsiders and rejects made me very comfortable with doing things on the outskirts of society. This plus-
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my personality tends to be naturally quite analytical/autistic, to the extent that i consistently disrupt social norms without really knowing I'm doing it, meant that sex work was just a rational, low-effort way to earn a lot of money and I was pretty insensitive to the stigma.
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I also don't pinpoint you as a poster child of this phenomenon, but I do think it exists in the industry and that is why the guy above me did the obvious job of bringing it up.
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Yeah, re popular correlation (if true?), I suspect it's correlation with bad home environments which result with the person having less to lose by foregoing society's blessing and taking on a harsh stigma (e.g., no college-educated job to risk losing)
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