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Hestia

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13. Did you read the article to the ending?
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 09:46 AM
Jul 2015
Like all professions, there are a wide variety of people in the adult industry, with a wide variety of mind sets and skill sets. Some suited to the work and others not so much. What we all have in common is prejudice and persecution world-wide. Even where sex work is legal we can still be driven out of our homes, lose our kids, lose our day jobs, be socially ostracised, become unemployable. Those in places where it is not legal suffer being forced underground where they are more vulnerable to violence and afraid to seek police help in case they are jailed themselves. For, you know, performing mutually consensual acts with other adults.


I do not think she is glamorizing the profession just honestly acknowledging what she does and who she is. It was through other women that she attained the spirituality and erotic being that she is. Not everyone gets to do that, especially, I am sure, at an expensive club/retreat that most people have no desire or funding to go to.

During Ancient Roman times, returning soldiers were not allowed back into society until they had visited the Sacred Whore (actually different name) who cleansed them of their deeds and actions. They were Temple Priestesses. There are other women who are trying to bring back the Sacred Act to their followers if you will, within their own Temples that they have created. It is so much more than a sexual act.

I know that women/children who have been trafficked certainly don't feel that way and I would never ever presume to make them it either. Why does everything have to be so debased and diseased?

Banning the titles of ancient Mother Goddesses really gets us nowhere in society and actually suppresses the Sacred Feminine, IMNSHO. We live in a duality and there are two sides to every story, for ill and for good. And keeps us from actually acknowledging and having a conversation that there are trafficked women and children who desperately need all of our help.

Thank you for being adult about the OP and not alerting and actually reading the author's story.

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