Cosmo To America: Being A Sex Worker Is SUPER FUN!

Why does Cosmopolitan even exist anymore? Other than to be a glorified porno mag that you can buy right at the grocery store checkout counter?

According to this, Cosmo has a series called “Sex Work” where they profile women who are working in the sex industry in America. Like, women who work at brothels in Nevada (like the one that endorse Hillary for president, maybe?) The point – I guess – is to de-stigmatize the sex industry and make it sound just like another career opportunity. Just like becoming a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher or a nurse. Because – EMPOWERMENT!

The magazine interview Perla, a 34-year-old prostitute that works at Sheri’s Ranch in Nevada (oh – NOW I remember where I’ve heard that name! They were the ones who offered to host Harry Reid’s retirement party! Ewwww….) Perla, apparently, LOVES her job as a legal prostitute and she told Cosmo‘s readers all about her SUPER EXCITING life that revolves around selling herself to the highest bidder –

We have 12-hour shifts: 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., and then 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. We draw for our shifts so you don’t really get to pick. But you usually get what you want because you can switch. We are required to stay a minimum of one week, but I like to come up for three weeks at a time. In my down time there, I either check emails, or go to the gym, or relax by the pool or Jacuzzi. I usually like to go home for about two weeks then come back. I’m single. I truly just desire to stay that way because it keeps me focused. I don’t need any distractions. About half of my family knows what I do for a living. My family is very supportive. They know I’m in a safe place.

I wonder how Perla’s schtick would go down at the local high school’s Career Day.

Am I the only one squicked-out by the fact that this woman (an many others like her) make their living by breaking up marriages and families? That it’s TOTES OKAY for men to buy a night with a hooker and then go home to their wives and kids like nothing happened? Or the risks that Perla puts herself in by sleeping with so many different partners? Sure, the article says she gets tested once a week for STDs – but that’s just once a week. And then there’s the moral implications – what does that do to your soul?

Virginia Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst who founded the company that currently owns Cosmo, made some of the same observations –

Breaking down Perla’s testimony looks like this to anyone with a moral compass who cares about this poor woman:

1. Being prostitutes on a “ranch” makes women nothing more than cattle, the madam their owner, and the men they have sex with their wranglers.
2. Prostitution destroys families by aiding and abetting ADULTERY.
3. The women at “legal brothels” must see a doctor every week to be tested and certified free of any STDs in order to continue working. However, the male (and occasionally female) “clients” are not tested. Any sick person can walk in and buy a woman, thereby infecting her and all the other men she has sex with that week, including the men’s innocent wives and girlfriends. I’d call that the real “War on Women!”
4. Subjecting women to daily 12-hour shifts of competing for men, negotiating the price of sex acts, performing those sex acts, and then repeating the cycle over and over is abominable and inhuman!

Seriously.