It’s easy to dismiss being a sex worker as easy to figure out, but think about it for a second. There’s actually a lot to learn, not just bedroom techniques, but safety, client management, all aspects of the business, plus the huge range of related topics like physiology and therapy.
No secret that this is a huge industry, with practices ranging from slavery to government-supported safety monitoring. But even in the most sanctioned and safe environments, the professional groups are somewhat underground.
So sex workers are a useful edge case to understand for peer to peer education. There’s no University of Prostitution (I googled) but there’s a huge industry and community that needs to, and does, learn.
As the title suggests Britney Spears and the Mysteries of the Super Orgasm might be a bit too much for some to read, but there are useful clues we can learn from:
On teaching each other techniques:
It’s not unusual for sex workers who team up to share a sexy, sororal bond that can include fondling and kissing, hand washing, spanking, pussy licking, and lots of caretaking.
And also a broader sense of purpose and community:
It’s also common for sex workers to adopt some version of a sex-worker-as-healer mentality for reasons of self-esteem, convenience, and entertainment. The idea that sex work can heal, sometimes called “sacred prostitution,” goes back as far as the 5th century BC to civilizations located in the modern day Middle East.
And it seems there are blogs and magazines ranging from Playboy to Dame, from Cosmo to Scientific American, that verge into professionally-useful topics, and a now-defunct magazine for sex workers.
I imagine the economics of the magazine business were the cause of death, but that content must have moved online.
A bit more research in underground professions like this might lead us to some useful tools in peer to peer education.
