20Jun 2024 by jennydemilo
Sex Work And Taxes

Sex Work And Taxes

Jenny DeMilo, sex work
I hear it all the time. It’s often deployed against sex workers as an attack line. I saw it again just the other day on a heated, controversial, sex work thread on the bird app. A commenter (a guy, it’s always a guy) spewed out the old sex-workers pay a zero tax rate trope. As an insult, “you don’t pay taxes” comes in just below “you’re a whore, shut up.” It’s one of those urban myths that gets passed around, and around, and around, and it’s used to demean and discount sex workers and the work they do. Sex workers don’t pay taxes, sex workers don’t contribute to the common good, sex workers work outside the system. The reality is sex workers do pay taxes. Sex workers pay a lot…
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26Sep 2022 by jennydemilo
I have an illicit past

I have an illicit past

Jenny DeMilo, prostitution, sex work
You all already know about my past if you have been a reader here. Now you can read me on The Daily Beast. Where I recount my first time escorting. It was a great pleasure to be able to contribute to The Daily Beast and i just love reveling what Sex Work is really like. So often the voices you are are not those who have real lived experiences in the sex business. I hope you enjoy it. https://www.thedailybeast.com/sextember-jenny-demilo-says-the-first-time-she-got-paid-for-sex-she-did-everything-wrong?ref=home "I had booked hundreds of calls for other people. I had hundreds of conversations with sex workers about what to say, what not say, how to stay out of jail and how to keep themselves safe. All that flew right out of my head, and I did everything all wrong."
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12Aug 2015 by jennydemilo

Do Not Trust Call Siren

Niteflirt, phone sex, sex work
New adult services pop up all the time. Most are fly by night. They think, look at all the free sex worker money! Then they find out how much work is involved and fold. Sex workers actually work their asses off (some literally) to make a living. They can fade away pretty fast. Escort directories linger on the web with no paid ads because they cant bring in the customers, clip sites do little or no business and barely stay a float then shut down. Some take the time to get sex worker allies on their side so that they can show they are legitimate and not there just to make money off them but want to be a member of the community and support them with their new business…
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05May 2015 by jennydemilo

Eros Guide and the 1500 photoshoot

photography, prostitution, sex work
I was minding my own Twitter business when it popped into my stream, Eros Guide announced they were coming to my city, Washington DC for a photo event. I clicked the link. Seems Eros is getting into the escort photoshoot business and they are doing it in DC. I was pretty irritated right away but not for the reason you might think.  What bothered me about this was that Eros Guide was selling these photoshoots for outrageous amounts of money 1200-1500 dollars of hard earned escort cash thats 3/4 times the going rate and marketing it towards "new escorts" The package they were offering was a shoot with a photographer with a minimal portfolio that had a grand total of 1 adult photo, one location for everyone just to make…
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