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Collected Item: “I'm in Porn to Make Ends Meet During COVID”

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I'm in Porn to Make Ends Meet During COVID

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First Person Story

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This is an article about a mother who was a stripper before the clubs had to close due to COVID laws. Now she is using porn to pay her bills while in quarantine. She does webcam work along with sexting and other things.
She has an 8 year old daughter and discusses how she explains her work to her.
She is conflicted about what other people think of her activities, her difficulty taking money becuase the usual venues don't accept sext trade payments, how to get social media followers, how privacy acts are affecting her, and the benefit of porn to people who partake in it.
She ends with "Porn is literally saving many people's lives during quarantine."

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

porn, sex, sexworker, webcam, fetish, mother, occupation, economy, quarantine, firstpersonstory, stripper

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-making-covid-19_n_5ea0731dc5b69150246c4ba3?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKzcjZJdpsiFTDnC5caBaaUYZdvCTWl-KevjFmzEFyz9A3cJS-xH034j-AlRtz-9rz_iV0HDVCT2UIyN6iPrNVvVBEsZFKwlHLkm9bbqaPfSSJ7hy7UxYKlMRORP_OXlX24k427VPvTEOy1q7EDCOmbsCw2GHsuWdL9ERP42HwpT

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

The Huffington Post

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2020-04-27
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