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Margot’s Got Money Troubles

(WARNING: spoiler alerts so don’t read if you want to watch this show, read after. And I do recommend you watch this show).

What can I say, watching this show purely from the standpoint of your average American’s perspective of sex work or just any average white westerner, it’s great and probably challenging even. It comes at you from a totally new perspective for some of the storyline (not the sex work part unfortunately). In that she has the baby, she doesn’t have the abortion, the baby daddy is her English professor who wants nothing to do with the baby because he is married etc.

He doesn’t take responsibility, Margot doesn’t care, if anything she may secretly have wanted that, but after having the baby Margot obviously has to make more money so to sex work she turns in order to make ends meet. Not so original, but watching it visually is always going to be different and when this show gets real, it gets REALLY REAL. And I really liked that.

Some might think, she doesn’t have to turn to sex work, many women have done it without… really? How many? That YOU KNOW of?

Sex work is usually a very anonymous industry so you probably know a former sex worker or current and don’t know they are doing it and for good reason. However, this makes the job problematic alone. The reasons these women are not telling you are because of the fear of being shamed, discrimination from literally everywhere and everyone, female hating, sex shaming, not being taken seriously (this is more in America), huge resume gaps, it’s mainly night work so it will start taking over a woman’s life if she allows it (and I believe sometimes it can do so quickly without them noticing it), it’s a thankless job, even though it prevents rape, satisfies problematic fantasies so they aren’t acted out on IRL and it also is a death trap.

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