So you’ve decided you want to stop doing sex work—you want to do something different with your life. The volatility and the emotional whiplash from chasing clients doesn’t feel doable anymore. You’re weary from how the work has reshaped the way you see men, intimacy, and yourself. You have gotten what you want from the experience, you’ve learned what ever lesson it was that you needed to learn, and now you are ready to evolve out sex work/dancing. You are grateful for the exp

Maybe you’ve told someone what you do, and they weren’t especially empathetic. Or maybe you’re struggling to understand why your life doesn’t feel as good as it “should.” Isn’t sex work supposed to be easy money? I can’t speak for everyone—but I can speak for myself. As a former dancer of nearly 20 years, I can tell you this: sex work (and here, i’m referring to dancing topless in a strip club as such) can be really fun, and it can also be really, really hard. Hard as in phys