There’s a twitter trend happening now where people post pictures of themselves in 2009 and then pictures of themselves from 2019. My feed was full of them two days ago so I started hunting around. I ran into an issue because I just got a new computer and my external hard drive is in a box that has yet to be unpacked.
Back in 2009, I was spending most of my time working. I was an accountant, I was working in a porno shop. I had very little time for Internet socialization because I was creating content all of the time. Having an amateur porno mini empire is a whole lot of work. You won’t hear me complain about it, but it is very time intensive. In 2009, I was fresh faced and ready to take on the world. In 2019, I’m a business lady doing business things and sitting in board rooms during the daylight hours managing people up and down the east coast of the United States.
Porno was definitely a more fun career, but managing people means that I get to use my Domme skills to get people to do what I want them to do. I’m honestly very lucky to find myself in the position that I’m in though. There’s a strange diacotamy about the way people the way people feel about hiring people who have done sex work and the how forcefully people will tell you to get out of sex work when you’re knee deep in it. It’s fucked.
In the Business Insider article linked below, you can read the story of a woman named Melissa Petro. She was a sex worker while she was in college and became a school teacher. When people discovered her past life, she was forced to quit and find a new career.
Melissa says that her time as a stripper prepared her for her kids and marriage though. She knew exactly what kind of partner she was looking for because she had encountered all. types. of. people. while she was working in the clubs. I completely agree with that. Dealing with people online jaded me and decreased my patience for bullshit.
In the next stage of her life, where she’s a wife and mother, she faces even more criticism. Are she and her husband raising their children “correctly”? Is there more that she could do to make her family’s lives easier? Does she have to fit into the stereotype of 100% all the time happy mom or the angry, falling apart, drunk on wine mom?
Nope…not at all.
There is life before, during and after sex work.
Her article ends with this:
Over a decade ago, I found the courage to face society’s misconceptions and talk openly about my experiences in the sex industry. These days, in spite of the risk I’ll be cast as a bad mother, I am honest about my experiences as a mother. But for my provocative history, I am in every way your typical wife and mom: relatively satisfied, grateful, #blessed … but also overworked and exhausted, burnt out, under constant surveillance, and yet utterly invisible, just as I felt when I sold sex.
I think that’s an amazingly insightful thought.
Here are the pictures that I decided to share on twitter to show the contrast between who I am now and who I was 10 years ago.
#2009vs2019 life's nice… No matter how much hair I have to how much clothing I'm wearing. pic.twitter.com/18CUGWIwko
— Alpha Harlot (@AlphaHarlot) November 21, 2019
Source: Business Insider
I’m definitely the same person in all four pictures…
Image: Diamond Foxxx in Strict Teacher by Brazzers
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