So, I was talking to a stripper I know the other day. Wonderful woman, divorced, ten year old son, and is very professional. It turns out her previous boyfriend is initiating a custody fight for her son, even though he isn’t the father, he is unemployed, and she is putting her son through private school.
It has nothing to do with drugs or illegal activity, the suit is 100% because she is a ‘sex worker’. A legal,above board job. It made me pretty furious, and I helped her find an appropriate lawyer (she will win, but its gonna take months).
Anyhoo, that was just setting the stage for I Support Adult Workers. The parts that deeply trouble me are the stats that 99% of workers get physically abused, a large number are trafficked, and substance abuse is rampant. Which is why I believe it needs to be moved out of the shadows, legalized, unionized, and have stricter protections for workers in the trade.
Instead of ‘independent contractors’ there needs to be union pensions, health services, and legal services as part of the job. Otherwise people are literally being thrown to the wolves, as we see today.
