416 Annie Sprinkle, Forty Reasons Why Whores Are My Heroes (1998)

1. Whores have the ability to share their most private, sensitive body parts with total strangers.
2. Whores have access to places other people don’t.
3. Whores challenge sexual mores.
4. Whores are playful.
5. Whores are tough.
6. Whores have careers based on giving pleasure.
7. Whores are creative.
8. Whores are adventurous and dare to live dangerously.
9. Whores teach people how to be better lovers.
10. Whores are multi-cultured and multi-gendered.
11. Whores give excellent advice and help people with their personal problems.
12. Whores have fun.
13. Whores wear exciting clothes.
14. Whores have patience and tolerance for people other people could never manage to put up with.
15. Whores make lonely people less lonely.
16. Whores are independent.
17. Whores teach people how to have safer sex.
18. Whores are a tradition.
19. Whores are hip.
20. Whores have good senses of humour.
21. Whores relieve millions of people of unwanted stress and tension.
22. Whores heal.
23. Whores endure in the face of fierce prejudice.
24. Whores make good money.
25. Whores always have a job.
26. Whores are sexy and erotic.
27. Whores have special talents other people just don’t have. Not everyone has what it takes to be a whore.
28. Whores are interesting people with lots of exciting life stories.
29. Whores get laid a lot.
30. Whores help people explore their sexual desires.
31. Whores explore their own sexual desires.
32. Whores are not afraid of sex.
33. Whores hustle.
34. Whores sparkle.
35. Whores are entertaining.
36. Whores have the guts to wear very big wigs.
37. Whores are not ashamed to be naked.
38. Whores help the handicapped.
39. Whores make their own hours.
40. Whores are rebelling against the absurd, patriarchal, sex-negative laws against their profession and are fighting for the legal right to receive financial compensation for their valuable work.

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∞ Copyright 1998 by Annie Sprinkle. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore pp 142-143 (Cleis Press, Inc.)