The World’s Oldest Profession Not Easiest, Safest, or Most Lucrative, Turns Out

Just in case you woke up this morning sure that the brilliant and very original solution to your money woes is to become a sex worker — I mean, it’s worked out so well for our sample size of two — may I please direct you to “Behind Closed Doors: An Analysis of Indoor Sex Work in New York City,” a report put out by The Sex Workers Project. Read that. It’ll take about an hour. Pay special attention to the chapters on “Violence,” “Robbery from customers,” and “Police interactions,” but you know, of course bad things would never happen to you, so instead why don’t you actually just skip those and focus on “Finances.” This is not a solution to any of your problems. (Duh?) Duh.

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