Being an out sex working parent, a thread:
Today when I was having lunch with my adult child we started talking about sex education and I told him that I once had a 19 year old call my phone sex line to talk to me about a sexual attraction he felt for a male friend.

I told my kid that the purpose of his call was to ask me to help navigate this situation bc he was actually afraid to pursue it. When I asked him what I was afraid of, he told me that if he started he would get to a point of no return, and he wasn't sure if he was ready.

I told him that in sex there should never be a point of no return, and that if he started doing something that he wasn't comfortable with he could stop, or they could try to do other things that they are both comfortable with. And that was the first time he had ever heard this.

Literally no one in his life ever told him that saying yes to opening a door isn't saying yes to every single thing that could be behind that door. My son said, "I knew this when I was like 12 or 13 because I had you and you told me about this stuff when I was really young."

I honestly don't remember having this exact conversation or explicitly teaching my older kids about consent, but I am sure that I did, and my kid remembers it.

This got me thinking that as much as people want to shame parents for working in the sex industry (and out parents for not being more secretive about it), we sure do teach our kids more about sex, bodily autonomy, and consent than most parents.