Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Channeling Travis Bickle

More on the hooker blogs as I realize my last post was a little wishy-washy. I was once again in hold the tongue don't say it if it might offend mode. What I really meant to say was how about a little discretion? If your family can figure out who you are from your shadowed and voice disguised television appearance, than your clients and their friends can probably do the same.

Clients are not paying you just for sex. Actually, they're not paying you for sex at all. They're paying you to leave after sex. But besides that, they're also buying your silence. That's part of the contract too right next to the no kissing clause. Respect it.

As for the preaching about people not getting it, convince yourself that you're empowered, but not everyone who does what you do is getting that same sense of "empowerment." The runaway who gets the shit beat out of her every night and gets all her money taken from her is not empowered. Julia Roberts won't be playing her in a movie and Elliot Spitzer doesn't have her come down to D.C. when he needs some. And there are a lot more of them than there are of you and they're the ones who actually get it.

The clients who seem so glamorous are lost unable to connect with anyone, particularly themselves. You are the piece of meat they're eating that night and later on you'll be crapped out along with everything else. The money can be good, no denying it and there are probably some pretty decent perks. If you can separate the rest of the baggage that comes with it, more power to you. But as you are showering off the day's loads and trying to look in the mirror, save the rap on the misunderstandings and preconceptions of the job. You can't bullshit a bullshitter.

Or am I just hung up for some reason?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You mean you gave women money to take off their clothes and allow you to enter them?

Anonymous said...

actually I think he's talking about someone paying someone to leave after sex. otherwise they'd be getting it for free, i guess.