Sex workers are stigmatized because we capitalize on male attention. Instead of enduring it, we revel in it. Then we have the audacity to profit from it.

In a patriarchal society, this is an affront to everything we are taught from birth. Men get to demand everything from women and we are supposed to meekly submit to their attentions.

Only sluts enjoy male attention. Only hoes charge men to touch them. Only whores let men look at them with lust in their eyes and bask in it like reptiles in the sun.

Delighting in male attention is worthy of condemnation. Using it to make a living subverts society's patriarchal teachings.

Making them pay us unsettles the patriarchal foundation of society one brick at a time. Celebrating your sexuality is an act of resistance. Acknowledging the glory that is the feminine body makes them squirm.

Being a hoe is revolutionary