What Sex Workers Need You To Know About Their Careers

King Noire

Pronouns:

He/Him

Occupation(s):

"I'm a Master fetish trainer. A Master Fetish trainer is someone who helps people identify their fetish and then helps them find ways to live them and experience them in healthy, pleasurable, and safe ways. I'm an adult performer or male talent — "porn star" or however they describe it today — an Erotic Touch Masseuse, Fantasy Flight Pilot, and I've been a Gogo Dancer."

What has your time in the industry been like? How has FOSTA impacted you?

"I think since I do a lot of different things, a lot of times people are just a taken aback when they find out what i do. I think if people find out what I do before they've spoken to me, come to a lecture, or musical performance or anything else I do, they automatically think, 'Well, he slang dick for a living, so he's got no brain or no soul or no heart.'

"The perception of sex workers is that we're all doing this to pay for drugs or it's [generally] just a negative stereotype that a lot of people have towards sex work that kind of permeates into all the different aspects of what we do. People think that they can talk to you any kind of way, whether it's online or at a tradeshow. They think they can just put their hands on you. They say wild stuff that they wouldn't say to anyone else. I get d*ck pics, p*ssy pics, all types of sh*t all the time. If I get 20 per day, I know that a woman is probably getting 100 to 1000 a day... It's open season on anyone who is in the adult entertainment industry. I [constantly] have to remind myself that if it's like that for me, then you know it's way worse for what sisters are going through out here."

"I think it's important to look to people for who they are and their deeds instead of what their profession [is]. I think it's also important to realize sex is a natural thing, it's a beautiful thing, and we are all human."

What should the world know about sex work?

"We're your family, we're your neighbors, we're everyday people just like you — we just happen to make money in a different way. I think it's crazy that we live in a world where if somebody tells you, 'Hey, I work for the military and I drop bombs on people for a living," that's more respected than if somebody tells you that they dance and entertain people. What people do for a living doesn't make them good or bad, it's just how they earn a living.

"I think it's important to look to people for who they are and their deeds instead of what their profession [is]. I think it's also important to realize sex is a natural thing, it's a beautiful thing, and we're humans in a lot of ways. People come to us, who might not be able to find someone to help them experience the world in a way that they wanted to experience the world or open up their eyes to news ways to pleasure. It's not a negative thing, it's a positive thing. Everyone in the world got here through sex and I think most of us are having sex, so I don't think that's something that should be frowned upon."

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