Where do YOU fall in the whorearchy?
“The whorearchy is arranged according to intimacy of contact with clients and police. The closer to both you are, the closer you are to the bottom. That puts “outdoor” workers, ie street-walking prostitutes, at the foundation. They are disdained by “indoor” prostitutes, who find clients online or via other third parties. They are disdained by the strippers and escorts who perform sex acts for clients, who are disdained by those who don’t. At the top sit sex workers who have no direct contact with cops or clients, such as cam girls and phone-sex operators.”
And some dust-up with Caroline Calloway, who is an influencer or something:
In an almost impressively misguided attempt at defense, the influencer turned OnlyFans star then proceeded to dig herself deeper, tweeting that her purportedly unique brand of “emotionally poignant, softcore cerebral porn” is “basically unchallenged” by the work of other sex workers on the platform.
According to Wieland, these claims are not only untrue, but also represent a classist attempt on Calloway’s part to “build her brand off an image of profound privilege” while distancing herself from sex work by weaponizing inherently whorephobic “I’m not like the other sex workers” rhetoric.
“It seems to me that she has decided to engage with sex work because OnlyFans is so hot right now, and thus, she can dip her toe in and garner attention for it,” Wieland tells InsideHook, adding that Calloway appears to be “signalling that she could be either a professional or a sex worker, but chooses the latter” purely for clout.
Naturally, Calloway’s attempt to justify her pricey intrusion into sex work by elevating herself above the professionals whose turf she’s invading did not go over well with the professionals in question. Calloway’s claims that her unique brand and Cambridge-educated background distinguished her from other creators on the platform were met with a barrage of swift backlash from sex workers who accused the influencer of whorephobia and unchecked privilege.
“Do you really think the rest of us don’t know how to use our brains or make artistic smut?” replied award-winning erotic entertainer Ari Dee. “Lovely tinge of whorephobia there! Your ‘brand’ is privilege & a superiority complex. It’s not cerebral porn.”