Peridot Ash of had a nice discourse last week on the difference between how many sex-worker customers behave towards sex workers (evidently mostly politely) and how they often** think and/or talk about them in “escort review” venues. Ash, a sex-worker herself, wrote an informational post about pre-screening customers. Her tip got picked up on one of the “review” sites and was… poorly received.

I really did not mean she was intelligent. I was showing how these girls think.
I do agree with you.
The links were also enlightening.
After all she is a hooker,not smart to begin with.

There’s quite a bit more of the same, and her very level-headed reactions, here.

I’m… pretty sure there’s some bluster and/or self-loathing involved in such deprecating, denigrating language but even so, as we used to say down southern Appalachia it tain’t right and it cain’t be healthy.

Part of why I advocate legalizing prostitution is so sex-workers can have better, legal avenues for screening customers, not because it would make life easier for the customers who write these kinds of reviews.

(Note: And no, it doesn’t help to say “well, there are millions of trolls on the internet to begin with. Because, um, who are they then?)

(Via Amber Rhea.)

[** But sure, not always. —fl]