Annie Sprinkle on “Sex Worker Burn Out”

Lately, I’ve been nursing the singed nerves of that all-too-human Sex Worker Burn Out (SWBO). Instead of exacerbating the condition with a long post, I’ll just link up to Annie Sprinkle’s indispensable How-To for a “Cure”:

STEP 1 – Admit you are burnt out. This sounds easy, but it’s the hardest step. Our egos, as well as our incomes, are invested in feeling good about our work. It’s not easy to admit that you are a mess. See it as an opportunity to grow.

I hereby admit it! Dr. Sprinkle, many thanks for all your relationship-minded, Whore-healin’ work.

Update: Working Hearts, ESPU-CA

I wrote up a highly personal post, “Just Whoreable,” for Sadie Lune’s Working Hearts this week, a blog about sex workers’ non-paid relationships. But to balance out the harrowing with the joyous, I wanted to link Sadie’s Bound, Not Gagged post about the ongoing fight for decriminalization in San Francisco in the November referendum Proposition K. It’s been championed by the Erotic Service Providers Union (ESPU) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and, more recently, endorsed by the Democratic Central Committee, as well as San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Club and Lawyer’s Guild, très bon, laborers of San Francisco!