It's fascinating that sex work is still illegal in so much of the world.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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Only very backwards countries.
While I agree, people don't often think of countries like Sweden as very backwards.
sex work isn't illegal here last i checked, what's illegal is buying sex
Because it shattered something I’d long believed: that only certain people get to be sexual. That desire is reserved for the abled, the attractive, the young. That illness cancels it out.
Seems like a very strange belief to have held in the first place (with respect to prostitution), even with her medical condition. It's quite obvious that if you open up sex and intimacy to anyone who can pay for it, there will be zero restrictions on the type of clientele. That's the entire point of the service.
also the fact that old people when left to their devices will start having kinky sex is a pretty common joke
Yet as a disabled person it’s a belief that society constantly projects onto you.
Agreed, really is a super sheltered view of sexuality, it's basically impossible to keep all kinds of people from fucking in general
I read that as less of a "belief" and more of an "assumption". Most people don't think about paraplegic sex at any point on their life, so her assumption went unquestioned until she was prompted to by sex work.
This reminds me a series of "porn" pictures of a paraplegic couple having sex that sometimes pass around on the internet. It was like the third time I saw them that I leat that the pictures were requested from the couple itself to be shared on the disability community, to show up that disability dosen't mean an asexual life.
If you are young and attractive and the only other context you have for sex is porn the belief is understandable. Its emotionally immature view that I'm glad she grew out of AND decided to write an article about to help others.
It’s funny how many receptionists brothels have