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Ok, so there’s a title I didn’t think I’d ever read!
However, according to some credible news sources in Australia, it appears that stressed out nurses are quitting hospital work and turning to prostitution as a source of income.
I have to say that regardless of claims that prostitution is safer than ever, it stills stands that these two “careers” really don’t go together. With all that we have learned about looking after ourselves and focusing on holistic care, prostituting yourself is a bad idea. Not only physically, but also emotionally, spiritually. If you really want to limit your sense of self-worth, wreck your self-esteem and discover what it feels like to be a pure object used for someone else’s gratification, you’ll find it in prostitution. That’s not what nurses stand for, is it?
Additionally, I can’t imagine how gross it must be having to pretend you’re interested (sexually) in complete strangers!
While prostitution is not something I’ll ever be checking out personally, I have worked in nursing for long enough and seen enough naked people that I really should make mention of another dilemma that sex workers must have to face – the reality of how many people look naked! Let me assure you, it’s not always what glamourised fashion magazines make things out to be. For example, issues such as obesity and the lack of personal hygiene seen in many people would not do anything to help the self esteem of any prostitute.
Obviously there are lots of exceptions to this, but to reach a point where you invite strangers to strip down and hop in your bed!? I’m a little dumbfounded. Not to mention I’m sure there’s a fair share of losers, creeps and psycho’s that also frequent brothels….
What’s also amazing about this is that the story doesn’t proclaim that a single nurse has left the profession to sell themselves on the street, but that several have jumped on the bandwagon.
“The mother of two with 10 years’ experience as a registered nurse, who wanted to be known only as Jenna, has told how she and at least four of her colleagues have found new jobs working in brothels.”
Let me just add that there are specific reasons why these people have decided to leave the hospitals and seek alternative income sources, and this post does not really expand on these reasons: that nurses are exhausted, demoralised, under-staffed and stressed.
I agree! I work under these same conditions frequently. It’s tiring physically and mentally to work as a nurse in Queensland right now, not to mention that you work crazy hours with serious ramifications when you mess up, and the pay is not super-great.
Regardless of this…. prostitution? Really?! Check out this personal account by a former prostitute in Australia:
“I know about trafficking first hand. I was enticed into the prostitution trade as a young single mother with bills to pay, and once trapped I was unable to escape until 20 years later.
I wasn’t trapped by force. Some are, because pimps can be pretty vicious – but I had no pimp. I was trapped by the easy money which lulled me into thinking that the physical and mental pain I went through was worth it. It was never worth it. It destroys you. Even though I have now been out of the sex industry for nearly eight years, I am still in recovery and probably always will be.” - Linda Watson
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This is really a sad thing..Nurses should not at all do such dirty jobs such as prostitution, as it would surely be going to damage their nursing career…I don’t really understand why they are doing so..
I’M THE NURSE AT THE CENTRE OF THE STORY WHO BECAME A PROSTITUTE!
WHEN I DID THE ARTICLE I WAS VERY HAPPILY SELLING MY SEXY BODY AT A GREAT BRISBANE BROTHEL. THEY WERE SOME OF THE MOST LIBERATING YEARS OF MY LIFE AND YES, I DID WEAR A NAUGHTY NURSE’S UNIFORM. I LOST MY JOB THERE WHEN I CALLED THE POLICE AFTER EBONY HAD HER FACE SMASHED IN BECAUSE THE CONDOM BROKE AND SHE WAS LEFT LYING THERE, CHOKING ON HER OWN BLOOD. SEVERAL OF HER TOP TEETH WERE KNOCKED OUT AND FACIAL BONES WERE BROKEN. IN FACT HER FACE WAS REARRANGED AND WE, HER CO WORKERS PAID FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HER FACE AND THE REPLACEMENT OF HER TEETH. SHE WAS COERCED INTO NOT LAYING CHARGES AND AS WHISTLEBLOWER, I WAS SACKED. I’M STILL ANGRY. I BECAME A PRIVATE ESCORT, ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS FORMS OF PROSTITUTION WHICH ATTRACTS MAINLY THE MOST REVOLTING OF CLIENTS. I HAD TO TAKE THE PHONE CALLS AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER I DESCRIBED MYSELF AND ANSWERED THE MOST DISGUSTING OF PERSONAL QUESTIONS. SOME GUYS ADMITTED MASTURBATING TO THE PHOTOS I SENT OR AS WE SPOKE ON THE PHONE AND DIDN’T NEED TO SEE ME. I WENT TO THE POLICE AFTER I RECEIVED SEVERAL TEXTS DESCRIBING MY BONDAGE, TORTURE AND MUTILATION BY A GANG. I ONLY LEFT PROSTITUTION A FEW MONTHS AGO AND WHILST I DO NOT REGRET BECOMING A SEX WORKER, I ADMIT THAT IT AFFECTED ME TO THE POINT WHERE I’M SEEKING TRAUMA COUNSELLING. SEX WORK HAS MANY SIDES AND SOME OF THEM ARE SHARP AND CUT YOU UP. MY NURSING DEGREE AND GRADUATION PHOTO ARE ON DISPLAY. I WILL NEVER RETURN TO NURSING OR TO PROSTITUTION. I’M NOW WRITING A BOOK AS CHANEL O’BRIEN ABOUT MY EXPERIENCES AS A SEX WORKER IN THE SEX INDUSTRY. WISH ME SUCCESS! I HAVE INSIGHT INTO THE JOB “…IT’S WISDOM BORN OF PAIN”
At least with prostitution you get paid for your service. I have never received extra pay for patients treating me like there personal prostitute. I have had patients talk to me to keep me in the room while masturbating under the sheet, tell me they are going to ‘f#ck my C*unt’ while grabbing me, being cornered in a bathroom with a naked man lunging at me and no staff available to respond to my emergency call. It is all just part of being a nurse and you just keep going back everyday. On top of that I have a $12000 HECS debt that causes me to get a tax bill every fricken year. I can’t possibly see why nurses would jump profession!!!
This is one of the worst thing that has hit the nursing industry. Better stay away from nursing job, if you are doing such dirty jobs like prostitution, as it is a real shame to the whole community.
Its really sad to hear that in europe most of the girls life has been destroyed just because of money … and shame on such guys who used those girls ….
A couple things. 1) The woman who claims she was trafficked described no instances of trafficking. Keeping a job because of the easy money is not the same as human trafficking. 2) Prostitution occurs in a wide range of means. Streetwalking is no doubt exploitative, but private escorts set their own hours, terms, and usually deal with a much more polite clientele. Brothels, if they are legal and regulated, provide both personal security and benefits. Stereotyping prostitution as demeaning makes no sense. As with everything else you must consider the full spectrum.
It is the rotten system whose to blame. We are livng in a godless world where materiialism is the king of kings. The system is run by a bunch of bloodsuckers exploiting all these vulnerable women, luring them into undescent acts just for the sake of money….. i wish i cold help but the only thing i can do is to spread the word and advice.
In my years ‘on the game’ I noticed a lot of nurses, teachers and hairdressers adding to their weekly incomes by working the odd Saturday night in a brothel. Their friends/family even husbands thought they were out with the girls. The problem comes when they want to move to working full time. They can earn in a night tax free what it takes them all week in their ‘normal’. It can be a trap.
Violet Ivy, Author, Lucky Girl – How I survived the Sex Industry
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