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@Aella_Girl
I'm just so sad. Sex work rescued me from a soul crushing life, it gave me an escape - and my story is a common one! The moralistic pressure against porn as inherently exploitative is extraordinarily damaging, particularly to the underprivileged. 1/
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@Aella_Girl
I grew up in an oppressive religious atmosphere that viewed deviant sexuality as harmful. It would 'corrupt my soul', it would emotionally drain me, it would make me a vacant-eyed wreck. But no, it fucking didn't. They were wrong, I was fine. And they still don't believe me.
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@Aella_Girl
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Yep, I've been in sex work for a decade and have been 100% upfront about everything I do, to my partners. Often they participate/help me with various aspects of the business. They also often have other sexual partners themselves.
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@QuasLacrimas
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so in terms of factual predictions, your parents were deadly accurate, hm? if anything probably a little too liberal
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@Aella_Girl
I grew up in an oppressive religious atmosphere that viewed deviant sexuality as harmful. It would 'corrupt my soul', it would emotionally drain me, it would make me a vacant-eyed wreck. But no, it fucking didn't. They were wrong, I was fine. And they still don't believe me.
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@Aella_Girl
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@QuasLacrimas
yea maybe? i was homeschooled, isolated from outside world, all my friends were similarly homeschooled, isolated from media, my dad's a professional evangelical christian, i memorized 800 verses and was planning to become a housewife. Some people still consider that too liberal.
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@QuasLacrimas
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who knows? all my homeschooled friends (and in fact this goes for my school friends who are now homeschooling, too) had parents who taught them the progressive pieties on race, gender, and civic nationalism. they just wanted to opt out of the casual sex, hard drugs, and obscenity
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@Aella_Girl
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@QuasLacrimas
yea idk brah, we had homosexuality=bad, trans ppl=insane, women=housewives (i thought women shouldn't be allowed to vote), america=great/founded on god, evolution=an evil conspiracy myth, abortion=literal murder, etc. etc. Pretty standard fundie stuff.
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