Calling all prostitutes and former prostitutes on MN, as there seem to be a few around right now...

[Aitch]

I'm curious to know how it makes you feel to see threads on here from wives and girlfriends etc when they discover that their husbands etc have been visiting prostitutes? even if you are happy in your own jobs (and i hope to god you are somehow, because the alternative is intolerable), how does it feel to be confronted with the downside of your work on these pages?

(i think it goes without saying that the men are culpable in this scenario, but am looking for some insight into how your work squares with sisterhood etc).

So this is where all the nutjobbers characters have been hiding, is it?

WWIFN - I wouldn't want any child of mine to have sex with anyone they didn't want to. If his being gay meant that he didn't want to have sex with women, then no...I wouldn't want him to do so.

Quite when this became so personal and all about me, I don't know. I thought it was a general discussion.

dittany - are you a troll?

However enthusiastic I would be about my daughter(s) being hookers, I would retain that exact same level for my son(s) doing the same.

AF - for some of them, yes it is.

Prostitution has very little to do with sexuality...in the main part... esspecially from the stand-point of the service giver..

I'm wondering what abuse means on this thread...being challenged does not mean abuse (just pointing that out)

dittany - i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Thanks for the discussion though.

I dont think Dittany is a troll, she honestly believes what she is saying. Which in some ways make me feel even more sorry for her.

There's no show without Punch, is there

these poor men on this thread getting abused by the man-haters

Do you realise how pathetic you sound ?

You keep doing it though, peddling your stupid inconsistencies...the mistake we are all making is in rising to the bait.

Ahh, it seems women with brains and strong, evidenced based opinions are to be pitied.

Why would that be I wonder?

Funnily enough AF I think you sound pathetic, all a matter of perpsective. But perspective is not really your strong suit is it....

^Ahh, it seems women with brains and strong, evidenced based opinions are to be pitied.

Why would that be I wonder?^

No.. bitter man haters with a warped view of the world are to be pitied.

I would be personally horrified if either of my children became sex-workers or in fact paid anyone for sex

It's an appalling decision. and totally unnecessary in the UK where benefits are freely available and indeed taken up by a goodly proportion of the population.

I can't imagine what it must be like marrying someone who visits a sex-worker. I can't imagine what it must be like to be someone who visits a sex-worker. I can't imagine what it must be like to be a sex-worker.

It's a whole sleazy dimension of some people's lives which is thankfully absent from my life and I am resolutely determined will play no part in my children's lives.

And people who rape trafficked women? Who knows people like this? If they know people like this why don't they just go to the police and report them?

I respect prostitutes more than people on benefits - at least they are providing for themselves and their family, as opposed to relying on other people's hard work.

There comes a time in any thread like this where a poster has dug themselves into such a hole in an attempt to be consistent, adding blatant untruths along the way, where like Dittany, the only thing to be said is that I simply don't believe you Barmy.

I don't believe (if you actually have DCs, that is) that you'd be happy for them to sell their bodies for sex, regardless of their gender, although like Dittany, I spotted your change in language when boys were mentioned.

I don't believe you were a male prostitute either.

However if we are to take you at your word, you see no harm in prostitution existing in our society, despite the harm it inflicts on the workers and the harm to society generally. You see it as a private transaction and that those who choose not to use sex workers, or become one, shouldn't be worried about it or express their disaffection?

That despite the vast majority of sex workers being female, in the trade not out of choice but out of desperation or criminal trafficking and getting far less money from their male clients than their male pimps earn, this isn't a gendered issue?

And anyone who disagrees with that view hates men?

What has this got to do with hating men?.I hate the fact people place so little value on themselves that they allow themselves to be victimised for the pleasure of others and at times for the monetary gain of others??..those are facts..the cosy belief that most people who prostitute themselves have made some kind of major 'life-choice' is a falacy...

Oh please...many pros are still on benefits..and tbh I respect a person who chooses to live on 60 quid a week with their dignity...

hoi, you two

I told this joker aaaaaaages ago that I didn't believe him

he is a fantasist with a wank-sock

a very well-used wank-sock going off the bollocks that he posts

More abuse.

hahaha@AF's wank sock

you lurve it, Barmy, you really lurve it

this is why you post

isn't it ?

get yeself down to M+S...you are going to run out of socks at this rate