Melissa Petro, a former sex worker on Craigslist, shares her thoughts:
I wrote my own ads, screened my own prospective dates, decided on my own what I would and would not do for money, and — best of all — I kept every penny I earned, all without the interference of an agency or other ubiquitous "middle man." Ultimately, while my experience as a "non-pro" was not the "fun" I had come looking for — I found the lifestyle physically demanding, emotionally taxing and spiritually bankrupting, and so I made a decision to desist some months after I'd gotten started, exiting the industry just as freely as I'd entered — never have I felt it was the state's obligation — nor its right, in fact — to protect me from the decisions I made.
Poignantly put.
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