Prostitution during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession. Pandemics are the world’s oldest cure for over-population. And it seems that COVID-19 will prove to be the world’s most statistically effective cure for stupidity. This pandemic has drawn a sharp line between Darwin Award candidates and potential survivors of this. The line in the sand is marked by one, inconvenient thing; wearing a mask covering your nose and mouth in public.
For some folks, you would think you are asking them to drink bleach or send their entire monthly social security check to some fraudulent television preacher who has offered to pray the virus away from you in exchange. Oh but here in the USA, we have a President and his official “spiritual advisor” in his administration already doing that , don’t we? I wish I were just making this all up like really bad science fiction writing.
I was given a copy of a few information sources being passed around to sex workers from the official advocating agencies. They did a fair and responsible job given the lack of information or understanding they are working with and also given that any sex workers who are doing face to face work right now are going to be as receptive to rules about how to work as Trump is receptive to non-White people.
I am not an advocate of anyone working at this time, especially anyone working with what is known to be a population that consistently and shamelessly puts public health at risk with their constant search, support and assistance in how to achieve their goals with the least inconvenience or responsibility on their part.
Their clear and unapologetic goals?
Bare back, no condom sex with as many people as possible, at the least amount of cost to them. This often means they share information like fantasy sports games tips on best tactics for preying on the most desperate, clueless and/or easily exploited because of addiction or mental health issues. If these folks have anyone at home that they give a damn about, you wouldn’t know it by their actions. Hepatitis? Herpes? HIV? Incurable Gonorrhea? My friend, nothing is going to stand in the way of them having a good time, not even threats to THEIR health and welfare. They have fish antibiotics for that! (True story. Someone actually said that other folks need not worry. Whatever you get, they have antibiotics for that. In fact, you can get a “good enough” variation of penicillin at the fish store and just use that without needing a prescription!)
The “guilty as charged” participants?
Review board members. Hobbyists. Slobbyists. Keyboard coaches. While there is a lid for every pot and certainly an entire squad of providers who have made their fortunes by being available to this pig pen of humanity, times have changed.
Instead of these human STD factories looking for providers to share the rewards of their indiscriminate, no-condom-sex with, now we are looking at the possibility of them having a respiratory virus that can and will kill many of them (since most fit into the ideal age and health condition range for both being infected AND dying from it after infecting everyone they come into contact with). And these are the same people LEAST likely to keep a mask on in your presence for the same reasons they would try to get out of wearing a condom with you.
People contacting me with any (remotely) sexual inquiry have received the same reaction from me as if they were suddenly appearing and offering to help me write out my last will and testament before a stimulating game of Russian Roulette. Trust me when I tell you this description is not an exaggeration. LOL
But some folks have to work.
We are far enough into this pandemic that it isn’t the usual band of giggling supects (both the racist ones who thought Trump was the greatest President ever because he also married his favorite prostitute, or the remaining ones who never vote, don’t actually listen to the news except accidentally and get primarily all their info from Facebook memes and the hobbyist gossip trolls and call all of this a “leftist, liberal, fake news agenda blown way out of proportion.” Note that both of these are the same folks who probably failed highschool biology and never had a college level microbiology 101 course but STILL like to think they know enough about what a virus is and how it operates to know this is all exaggerated nonsense and “herd immunity!”) And now, here we are and the ones who have been trying to be conscientious and cautious must now make undesirable choices about working with a well known population that has a track record for not giving a damn about their own health, much less anyone else’s … or going hungry and homeless in the very real and immediate future.
Here is my open letter to full service sex workers. If you are a patron of theirs, this is important for you to read too.
FSSW and COVID-19. A practical thread, not a rant. I posted this elsewhere but this might be useful to some folks. There are some important points missing in these that would be helpful to better understand what is happening.
“Asymptomatic” and observing “droplet precautions” are the two key parts of this pandemic that is causing the most confusion and complications.
It is the lack of symptoms in infected people that is causing the high volume of new cases everywhere.
Signs of a cold are late stage symptoms and not showing up for everyone before they end up in ICU and discover they suddenly can’t breathe because they are COVID-19 positive or their kids come down sick with other organ failure issues and then they find out it is a complication of being covid-19 positive and not knowing it
Contact precautions (gloves or no contact at all) is because people will unconsciously touch nose and mouth and eyes multiple times per minute and not realize it…. And remember, asymptomatic is the real problem here.
So, they may or may not have “clean” hands but unless you watch them wash AND while the mask is kept on AND you aren’t touching any part of them that they might have put their cooty covered hands on before just washing their hands…
You may as well give up and not bothering to wear a mask. It’s like putting a condom on a guy AFTER giving him a blowjob. If he has a herpes virus, you’re still getting it – just differently than you were thinking.
Observing droplet precautions and contact precautions are the only insurance that work. That means covering NOSE and mouth, those two holes you breathe through when in closed spaces or near other people you don’t live with. You can’t see air and you damn sure can’t see virus infected air. If a sneeze can travel over 6 feet, normal breath can circulate in a space around you for easily 3 feet and linger like dust you see in a room through a shaft of sunlight
While touching someone’s clothes are of minimal concern, how often has he touched his penis to go to bathroom before seeing you. Is he washing his genitals AND his hands for you? Properly? With soap and water? Thoroughly? Can you perform your services while breathing through a mask so your airway is protected? A blowjob mask can be made but do you have one? And can you be absolutely certain that his dumb ass will keep HIS mask on THE ENTIRE TIME so he doesn’t put YOU at risk of infection?
Remember these masks are 80% to protect other people from you because you don’t know that are COVID-19 positive or negative (asymptomatic) and 30% to protect yourself. Both if us wearing it is the only way to 99-100% protection for either of us
His behavior with his own mask is the biggest risk of all. Doing it doggy style with his hot, infected breath on the back of your head is NOT preventative. Air circulates !!!
He must wear a mask OVER HIS NOSE and mouth properly and the entire time you are together or you have no protection at all
If you’re going to be in closed quarters and close contact with a non-resident of your home, the mask must make a seal around the face. No gaps. If your hot breath can pass through easily, it’s the same as not wearing a mask at all. Best solution to protect yourself from your client is to use an exterior barrior of pantyhose. Like a tube casing to cover the head where the mask is and hold it in place. Research has shown that it is effective in keeping gaps out of mask-face contact and creates a proper “seal” to prevent droplet transmission.
Of course, you can do what you want and see how it works for you by August
If someone cares so little about your health or the health of loved ones you might have in your life and refuses to wear a mask properly and keep it on, this is not someone who deserves your generous attentions. At least with suicide bombers, they own the fact that they intend to commit suicide and kill everyone around them in the process while they do it. They aren’t cowards about their intentions.
You might be desperate but you aren’t worthless. Value your life in ways that they won’t
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If you are a patron of a sex worker and you are one of the good guys, not another toxic, selfish, sociopath whose only feeling of power comes from putting others in harm’s way – then do this:
Follow her rules, to the letter.
Find out what those rules are first. Ask for clarification if something is confusing so you don’t make things worse.
If you can’t follow her rules, and I mean ALL her rules, (even if her rule is that she will only see you while wearing a hazmat suit and will only touch you with a robotic hand from 6 feet away while you are wearing a rubber mask and breathing through a tube!) – if you can’t follow ALL her rules, then don’t see her.
Respect begins with acknowledging and conforming to the boundaries between us.
This means she won’t show up, unannounced, at your door at 3 am because she needs an emergency loan because…. respecting “boundaries.” This simultaneously means you don’t get to push the limits of how much she likes you by testing her boundaries either. It works both ways. Your life will be infinitely improved by NOT being a dirtbag that no one wants to see if they have better choices.
People are going to hook up, in spite of the pandemic. You can’t stop biology, whether it is the biology of the primal call of the wild or the biology of the unyielding demand of Mother Nature to give some of her children back to her.
If you are seeing a provider:
Wear a mask OVER your nose and mouth.
THE ENTIRE TIME.
CORRECTLY.
If you can’t wear your mask correctly and for that short period of time and think wearing it like a stubborn six year old trying to be defiant is cute, keep in mind that there is nothing cute about you infecting her with COVID-19 and by association – her young children or elderly relatives who did NOT agree to be part of your play time with her and shouldn’t suffer those consequences.
My body, my choice?
Not when it comes to shared air space, buddy. This mask I wear is to protect the people around me because I give a damn and breathing through this is alot less difficult than breathing through a ventilator. Giving a damn and wearing a mask. It is the cheapest and easiest way to be a hero in your own life.
