International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
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However, I evolved beyond those notions as a matter of practicalities and the international environment I once found myself occupying.
When I was in the Navy whores were my friends. At least those abroad were my friends. Not the ones who worked the 'gut' of Spruill Avenue and that area right around the Naval Station in Charleston — for they were a different, predatory variety than those trying to eek out a living in the ports of call and cities abroad.
You might find it odd for a person to like whores; but in a never ending barrage of foreign countries and what seemed like endless days at sea those comforts you can find for yourself become increasingly important.
Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. It is observed each year on December 17 and is held under the auspices of sex workers, their friends, families and allies, and advocates. It was first held to memorialize victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle Washington as a vigil but has evolved into the annual international event it is now.
The day draws attention to those hate crimes committed against sex workers worldwide and attempts to remove stigmata, violence, and discrimination which are part and parcel of that environment of violence against sex workers.
So when you see someone on their high horse railing against a sex worker who is out there trying to get by like the rest of us; perhaps a softer orientation to those needs of all people which are food, clothing, and shelter might come to mind instead of that method by which these things are obtained.
Some of us do what we must do to get by.