Comments on: Safety & Security: Don’t just read – DO http://courtesanconnection.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/safety-security-dont-just-read-do/ A blog about blogs by Sex Workers Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: susanfromseattle http://courtesanconnection.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/safety-security-dont-just-read-do/#comment-28 susanfromseattle Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:59:20 +0000 http://courtesanconnection.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/safety-security-dont-just-read-do/#comment-28 The "other places" to which you link is Seattle. In some ways, Seattle is the most liberal city in the known universe. (Q: What's the difference between Seattle and Moscow? A: Seattle still has a functioning Communist Party.) In other ways, we're more prudish than the Vatican. Case in point: Sex. Sure, it's a great city to be gay, lesbian, or transg. However, for run-of-the-mill hetero sex, we seem to be quite squeemish. Actual sex has to stay in the shadows, out of fear and out of disrespect. Hence, the Green River Killer. He managed to kill for YEARS. We still don't know how many girls he killed. We're not sure HE knows. He was a total killing machine, somewhat like a shark. But -- and this is an important but -- he managed to get away with it for so long in no small part because sex workers were totally trivialized and marginalized in society. No one "missed" a working girl. She could simply disappear, and no one noticed. If and when sex work is decriminalized, this might change. A working girl goes missing and it gets the same attention as, say, any other missing person. Until then, though, we're just waiting for the next Green River Killer to realize that he can snatch girls, get away with it, and no one will notice. By the way, were you aware that Ted Bundy came from here, too? <em>Actually Susan, at first I was reluctant to reference the Green River Killer, due to how close the location was to Vancouver, but considering the number of women murdered, and how he directly preyed on sex workers, it seemed appropriate. I had forgotten Ted Bundy started out west. That being said, it would be a sad and dangerous mistake for any one to think location brings safety. Please protect yourselves as best as you possibly can. - The Courtesan Connection</em> The “other places” to which you link is Seattle. In some ways, Seattle is the most liberal city in the known universe. (Q: What’s the difference between Seattle and Moscow? A: Seattle still has a functioning Communist Party.) In other ways, we’re more prudish than the Vatican. Case in point: Sex. Sure, it’s a great city to be gay, lesbian, or transg. However, for run-of-the-mill hetero sex, we seem to be quite squeemish. Actual sex has to stay in the shadows, out of fear and out of disrespect.

Hence, the Green River Killer. He managed to kill for YEARS. We still don’t know how many girls he killed. We’re not sure HE knows. He was a total killing machine, somewhat like a shark. But — and this is an important but — he managed to get away with it for so long in no small part because sex workers were totally trivialized and marginalized in society. No one “missed” a working girl. She could simply disappear, and no one noticed.

If and when sex work is decriminalized, this might change. A working girl goes missing and it gets the same attention as, say, any other missing person. Until then, though, we’re just waiting for the next Green River Killer to realize that he can snatch girls, get away with it, and no one will notice.

By the way, were you aware that Ted Bundy came from here, too?

Actually Susan, at first I was reluctant to reference the Green River Killer, due to how close the location was to Vancouver, but considering the number of women murdered, and how he directly preyed on sex workers, it seemed appropriate. I had forgotten Ted Bundy started out west. That being said, it would be a sad and dangerous mistake for any one to think location brings safety. Please protect yourselves as best as you possibly can. – The Courtesan Connection

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