04Oct 2017 by jennydemilo

Getting Verified On Twitter If You Are A Sex Worker

sex work
Good luck. There are scant few sex workers verified on Twitter even though its the preferred social media outlet for the marginalized group. I was an early adopter and encouraged others if my ilk (at that time i was a hooker) to join me. We called ourselves "Twookers" and i still have a Twitter list of that name. Twitter allowed us to connect in a real way, to support each other, share information and ideas. We were able to create our own social media support support system for a group of people who are often discriminated against, marginalized and often just flat out denied access to the the things everyone else is allowed to participate in.   We cant use linkedin, we get chased off Facebook for having stage names,…
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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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08Nov 2013 by jennydemilo

DCHobbyist Idiot DuJour

Internet, prostitution, sex work
[caption id="attachment_1917" align="alignleft" width="300"] Not the sharpest tool[/caption]If you work for the President Of The United States and you bang hookers, it's probably not a good idea to create a secret Twitter account and taunt your bosses at the White House. It's an even worse idea to also have a second secret Twitter account where you prolifically talk about how you pay for sex. That is however what one person did. Then he got caught. Then he made national media. Like a dumbass. He created @NatSecWonk  (get it national security wonk..*eyeroll*) and he used that Twitter account to denigrate his bosses and anyone else in the political realm he felt like. I guess people in  national security circles and some journalist followed him. I guess he thought he was being…
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01Jul 2011 by jennydemilo

Ashton Kutcher Vs Village Voice Media

prostitution, sex work
[caption id="attachment_1514" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ok to play a sex worker, not ok to be one?"][/caption]The Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's anti trafficking campaign "Real men don't buy girls" has long bothered me. It's made me so upset that i haven't been able to write about it because i get too emotional when trying to put my thoughts down in writing. It bothers me for a lot of reasons. Because its the celeb cause of the day, because it's always felt so completely dishonest, because it conflates sexual slavery of under age children with that of consensual paid sex acts between adults, because it ignores BOYS (as if they are never victims of trafficking) and i could go on and on and on and on and on. It upsets me and…
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