Sex Work, Exploitation and Street Stereotypes in Kensington

If, if a woman has any business sense or any savvy whatsoever, she can, she can, she can manage her own business, place, place her own ads and, and, and keep it, uh, and keep it all for herself. To me, what's demeaning is, um,

someone, for example, that I know very well with a law degree, uh, working in an office and being a coffee gofer.

Uh, that is demeaning. Is it- it's, it's demeaning to f- it's, it's demeaning to, to flip burgers for, you know, seven or eight dollars an hour or something like that.

I, I, I mean, if you talk about exploitation, prostitution or sex work comes pretty far down the list.

There are a lot of people on welfare working minimum wage jobs who are, like, totally relentlessly, horribly exploited all the time.

I'm not saying that, that, that a prostitute can't or isn't exploited, but it's ... Sex work is like any other work, any other industry.

Um, it's a continuum. It's, it's, a ... Uh, it's, it's a spectrum.

Do you have a dollar for a light? Uh, no, I don't, sweetie.

Sorry.

That's a ...

Asking for a light is a ... Could be someone asking for a light.

Uh, but it's also in that case an opening for- Yeah ... to start a con- to sort of start a conversation.

Um, that said, not every woman in Kensington is a, is a prostitute. I mean, sometimes even in Kensington a woman standing on a street corner is actually is waiting for the bus.