When I was sixteen-years-old, I moved to Toledo to unionize migrant farm workers with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. The people I lived with were just as formative as the work I did. I lived in a tiny apartment with Maggie who had just recently graduated from Oberlin, Kayla who had one more year left at Oberlin. My friend and co-worker whom I practically lived with, Juan who was attending the University of Toledo and my summer boyfriend Daniel a young-German doing his social work instead of obligatory military service.
We worked together, lived together and didn’t know anyone else in the city our ages. We were all very close. Maggie had a great impact on me. I was young, naïve, and “waiting-until-marriage”. Maggie had come from running a sex clinic informing college students about safe sex practices. She was unionizing migrant farm workers with the hope of some day unionizing the sex industry. Maggie taught me about correctly putting on a condom, dental dams, and finger cots. She asked me to call her “Cunt” and told me that it was a beautiful powerful word, and you know it really is to me to this day. I love the word.
In terms of the sex industry, I had some ideas but not many. I wrote my first paper about the legalization of prostitution when I was in the 7th grade. I did have help from my dad and he taught me the phrase “victimless crime“. Now, I don’t believe that prostitution is necessarily a victimless crime, which is why I would like to see it unionized. Maggie taught me about other jobs within the sex industry. She introduced me to the lesbian punk band Tribe 8 and their song about the sex industry “Dead Clothed Boys”. I went back to High Schools after my summer with Maggie and became fascinated with the sex industry I wrote as many papers as I could about it. I was banned from a friends house after telling him about the site World Sex Guide (which isn’t that good anymore). I Read as much as I could and I still get excited when I see articles about the unionizing of the sex industry. For example this past week the NY Times had an article “Long Silent, Oldest Profession Gets Vocal and Organized“. The article addressed the grassroots effort around the country to unionize. It is amazing. You can also check out my previous post regarding the sex industry.
Cunt: vulgar. It’s right up there with the two other despicable words: moist and loaf.
sorry oso, listen to george carlin’s seven dirty words.
it’s all in the context.
nigger, cunt, spic, wap, dike, fag, whitey.
whatever, just words.
the context defines both them and the intent behind the utterer.
being predisposed to other living creatures, without prior exposure and consideration, is irrational.
unionization of prostitution, by definition, means that individuals are negotiating from a weak standing requiring a collective to overcome.
fuck that, be strong individually. not enough $/risk/whatever, don’t put out, no union required.
don’t sell yourself for $20 to some fat, hairy, heart attack fuck. dig it?
haven’t high dollar hoes commanded their own salary anyways?
the whole pimp deal does suck though. be independant.
Right. Don’t sell yourself for $20. Unless that $20 will mean that your kids get to eat that week.