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By: JoeClay

JoeClay — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:03:33 +0000

I hated it when Sawyer implied you lost your dignity by selling it.

I wish you would have asked her if she felt she lost her soul by doing shows ot interviews she didn’t want to.

Be brave, little willow.

By: collegehookerboy

collegehookerboy — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:14:30 +0000

I think I might have seen that interview. Sometimes they are flattering but usually they depict the crack/street whores who would sell their souls for a year supply of drugs. That ain’t me anymore and its clearly not you – you got class.

By: for sale? « badinfluencegirl

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By: Doctor M

Doctor M — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:57:05 +0000

I hope you’ll update soon. You’re always missed on non-update days.

By: Thais

Thais — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:40:57 +0000

Have you seen this, D.?
http://daytimetalk.com/2008/03/22/diane-sawyer-talks-about-prostitutes-video/

It looks like you actually left quite an impression on Diane Sawyer.

By: Wolter

Wolter — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:20:40 +0000

You should take a look at http://lettersfromworkinggirls.blogspot.com/

You might find some more encouragement to stick to your guns, though it would probably be more useful as an advocacy site for those who are still blinded by the stigma.

It’s refreshing to see someone willing to pierce the puritanical barrier of undeserved shame, and stepping into the sunlight to say: Here I am.

The concept of prostitute=victim has got to go.

By: Tryingtolearn

Tryingtolearn — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:54:27 +0000

I have to agree with VJ…You were the sophisticated one…being interviewed by a hack…well polished…but a hack nonetheless.

I have faith that you will persevere …not for your audience…but for yourself

By: VJ

VJ — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:39:34 +0000

Please recall that Diane Sawyer, was an old Nixon era political whore & still is in the bag for the sort of dirty kind of ‘respectable’Repug:

(From Wiki): “She attended Seneca High School in the Buechel area of Louisville. In 1963, she won the “America’s Junior Miss” scholarship pageant as a representative from the State of Kentucky. In 1967 she received her English degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.After briefly attending law school at the University of Louisville, Sawyer served as a local TV news reporter and “weather girl” for WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1970, White House press secretary Ron Ziegler hired her to serve in the administration of President Richard Nixon. Sawyer stayed on through his resignation in 1974, worked on the transition team between Nixon and Gerald Ford in 1975. She took her loyalty as far as decamping with the First Resignee into Californian exile, and helped him write his memoirs there”.

So yeah. Imagine a 63 YO Repug. Wellesley Granny Grad interviewing you, well about anything. It would come out about the same way, right? Sure she’s sweet. She WAS a Jr. Miss way back before they had toothpaste in a tube. Friendly too, up to a point. But honey, she’s part of the moneyed elite, always has been, and was probably shagging Nixon to ‘calm his nerves’ way back in the day. She filed that way in her unconsciousness as ’service to the country too’, Betcha! But the bottom line here? She Always believed Nixon was the one who had been wronged. Victorian just does not begin to cover all the pathology here. She’s always looking for the ‘little people’ to be superior to, and let us watch as she does that ’special interview’ where she’ll try and commiserate with you. Still as her Jr. League, conservative Wellesley gal self. Yeah, it’s ‘must watch TV’. Good gal goes slumming, explains all it to ‘Middle America’. We needed that! Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’

By: Fragments

Fragments — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:55:23 +0000

I really enjoy reading your blog, and deeply admire your ability to be quiet so brave and candid about things that I feel, but have difficulty expressing in light of societal and parental pressures. Social norms and views are ever so fickle, and yet for most of us, breaking from it, is like breaking from gravity – to be able to step away from its shadow, and to walk your own path, the one most suitable for you, instead of the one dictated by the arbiters of normalcy takes guts – kudos

By: Mercy

Mercy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:22:53 +0000

As a long time (though infrequent) lurker, I wanted to come out of the woodwork and show my support in light of all the hate mail, too. I think some of us forget that positive reactions are what keep writers going; that there’ll always be more negative attention that’s spoken.

Years ago my mother (probably my father as well) found out that I was working in the sex industry–but we don’t talk about it, except obliquely. It was uncomfortable for a long ass time, my regret is that we never talked about it when it happened. That’s an individual choice, and not any advice on my part. Everyone’s different. But I do know how it feels to have this big thing sitting out there where everyone can see it.

What I -can- say is, keep it up. You’re adding to the future history of female sexuality. You’re engaging people with new thoughts and ideas. And you’re doing it quite, quite well.