By Ally Booker. Out of any profession in the world, perhaps one of the oldest is also the most misunderstood. Sex work is an umbrella term that covers many roles in the sex industry including, but not limited to, escorting, phone sex, exotic dancing, sensual massage, brothel work, street work, and more.
Some of these professions are legal in certain parts of the country and some are not. However, the term "work" in sex work emphasizes the fact that it is a legitimate and consensual profession. This week I've interviewed Amy Gray her name has been changed to protect her privacy , a self-identified prostitute who has worked both independently as an escort and sensual massage practitioner, as well as spending some time at a legal brothel.
But here is a disclaimerβshe is only one of thousands of sex workers. Thus she would like to remind you that this is just one person's truth. If this was an interview with a health care practitioner, an ER doc serving an understaffed hospital will have a different truth that a cosmetic surgeon in Hollywood.
Hi Amy, thanks for agreeing to do this interview. I'm sure you get a lot of questions about your profession, even out of an official interview context, so I thought I'd begin by asking what is the most common question you get?
Probably the most common question I get would be "How did you get into this? I don't know why people are so obsessed about my parents' knowledge of my job, but there you go.
