{"id":2524,"date":"2012-01-08T15:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2012-01-08T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:22:38","slug":"letting-a-whore-have-her-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Letting a Whore Have Her Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5576db7a7c7e3386c4a1c431cd35b6c6\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibrant-vibes.com\/Vibrators\/Luxury?a=Vibrant-vibes&cid=257\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/luxury_items_714x239.jpg?w=840\"\/><\/a><br>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snapz-Pro-XScreenSnapz149.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2526\" title=\"Snapz Pro XScreenSnapz149\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snapz-Pro-XScreenSnapz149.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snapz-Pro-XScreenSnapz149.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Snapz-Pro-XScreenSnapz149.jpg?w=492&amp;ssl=1 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A close friend of mine \u00a0linked me to a character study that appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/01\/nyregion\/at-52-a-prostitute-still-working-the-streets.html?_r=1\">NYTimes.com<\/a> , \u00a0profiling a 52 year old sex worker in Hunts Point New York. \u00a0 The \u00a0short profile story and video (after the jump)\u00a0\u00a0,in my\u00a0opinion, was a rare change of narrative that most are used to when it comes to sex work in America.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000001257106&amp;playerType=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\"><\/iframe><\/center>Most of the time, there&#8217;s a very narrow view of sex work that is mistakenly interchanged with human\u00a0trafficking \u00a0and child abuse. \u00a0The\u00a0narrative\u00a0usually follows a &#8220;normal&#8221; white woman who is seduced or captured into sex work and lurred into drug addiction.\u00a0\u00a0 A few times sex work will be seen as something that heartless brown and yellow children are forced into by adults they can&#8217;t take care of. The new sex work meme is the affluent and educated white women doing sex work to pay for her second masters or so she can get a book \/ record deal. \u00a0Its very seldom that journalist trust\u00a0their\u00a0subjects to tell their own stories, in their own words forcing all sex work to be packaged as victimization,\u00a0trafficking\u00a0and child abuse. \u00a0A narrative notably absent when discussing male sex workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PFZ-Sticker_02.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2525\" title=\"PFZ-Sticker_02\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PFZ-Sticker_02.gif?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PFZ-Sticker_02.gif?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blasianbytch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PFZ-Sticker_02.gif?w=277&amp;ssl=1 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A good example of this was Diane Sawyer&#8217;s 2008\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=4480892&amp;page=1#.Twn8ESNWpKE\">Prostitution in America<\/a>\u00a0 which features 90% Blond white women as subjects offering soundbites. The series was mostly narrated by Sawyer and if the viewer were to\u00a0believe\u00a0this report almost all prostitutes in this country are Blonds , pill poppers or really good at staring off into the distance while\u00a0melodramatic\u00a0music plays. \u00a0I&#8217;m not a fan of moral plays paraded as journalism \u00a0even less so when the journalist doesn&#8217;t trust her subjects not to tell the story she wants to hear.<\/p>\n<p>In the NYTimes\u00a0piece\u00a0its refreshing to see a woman, of age , of color completely own her choice to engage in sex work. \u00a0She comes off sincere and human because she is, she&#8217;s not being propped up as what she represents or a parable. She&#8217;s a woman talking about her life and how she chooses to live it.<\/p>\n<p>Its hard for journalist to cover the varying levels of sex work, especially when it comes to prostitution. For the most part its illegal, its pushed as a moral issue and unearths a lot of ugly truths in our society concerning social class, race and gender. But its a journalist prime obligation to report the truth and a big part of that is striving to shed light on those speaking in their own voice about the issues that effect them, especially when they don&#8217;t reflect the image others have made for them.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><h3 class='related_post_title'>These Might Tickle Your Fancy:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=3584\" title=\"New (ish) Interviews with ME!\">New (ish) Interviews with ME!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=3467\" title=\"Sex, Sex Work and the Web #TtW14\">Sex, Sex Work and the Web #TtW14<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=1657\" title=\"Today is National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day!\">Today is National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=1480\" title=\"Toy Friend: LELO&#8217;s Insignia Line: Isla \">Toy Friend: LELO&#8217;s Insignia Line: Isla <\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close friend of mine \u00a0linked me to a character study that appeared on the NYTimes.com , \u00a0profiling a 52 year old sex worker in Hunts Point New York. \u00a0 The \u00a0short profile story and video (after the jump)\u00a0\u00a0,in my\u00a0opinion, was a rare change of narrative that most are used to when it comes to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/?p=2524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letting a Whore Have Her Say&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,262,426],"tags":[43,94,541,427],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pondering","category-sex-positive","category-sex-work","tag-black","tag-sex","tag-sex-positive","tag-sex-work-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q1hr-EI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blasianbytch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}