Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with tricks
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WHORE’S OVERDOSE
Criminalizing sex work simply drives it underground where it’s defined by organized crime. Not sex workers. We like to think that we as a collective of individuals can construct our own world with rules and responsibilities we make up ourselves. Organized crime is attracted to exploiting sex work and sex…
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Waiting For the Trick to Come
you are hoping he washes his ass in the shower because you are painfully aware that he’s going to demand that you eat it/ waiting, always waiting/ it makes no sense because they’re all on the clock anyway/ making you wait is going to cost them, but you’ve never been…
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Violence Against Sex Workers
Kirk is quite typical for a seventeen-year-old except for one thing. He does sex work to survive. One in five police reports of sexual assault from an urban, U.S. emergency room were filed by sex workers. Sex workers were younger, poorer and suffered a greater number of injuries than other…
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Breathing Under Stress
it was like breathing with a plastic bag tied over your head in and out in and out/ and you should not have been able to breathe at all no one knows that you are really there/ the alarms did not go off they never do/ the people you loved…
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Sam the Man
Hitches rides in highway rest areas. Sometimes they’ll take you where you’re going. Sometimes they’ll take you to where they are going. Sometimes, you get thrown into a ditch.