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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does your boyfriend know you’re going back to turning tricks? or did that one not work out
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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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i think if you made a movie about your life trajectory, you could make bank selling it to christians who want to scare their daughters
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oh yea, i used to be a devout christian and my future would have horrified me at the time.
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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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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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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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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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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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sounds like a good start, probably they had relatively accurate predictions about what would happen (in the “if you give a mouse a cookie sense”: if you give a trusting evangelical girl friends from other ethno-religious tribes, they’re going to give her a lot of drugs...)
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my issue here is that people assume things about my life; when I'm like no, actually my upbringing was different, they're like 'well it must not have hit the points I think are important.' I have to keep chasing after and being like 'you really don't understand'
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