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Ironically enough, the founding fathers were more like me than nationalist or puritans.
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“In a fictional country, the state holds a funeral for a missing sex worker.”
Dec. 17 is International Day to End Violence to Sex Workers
Dec. 17 is International Day to End Violence to Sex Workers
I’ve been hanging on to this vintage card to share sometime during the holiday season, and International Day to End Violence to Sex Workers (December 17) seemed the ideal time. I don’t know to what extent the real Mae West dabbled in the oldest profession, but her characters certainly did, to one extent or another. And as we wrote pretty extensively in No Applause, not only has societal prejudice…
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??? why are “friends with benefits” now considered a cringe straight people thing???? friends can fuck. it’s literally fine
I've been fiddling with a Dracula-adjacent story idea and I won't say much about that just yet bc who knows whether it'll develop. In any case I was pondering the whole "adaptations make Lucy out to be a lascivious and willing victim" thing, and puzzling over where that comes from.
And granted, the obvious answer is that Stoker describes Vamp!Lucy as voluptuous and seductive.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to put this idea into words that make sense, so please bear with me.
I was thinking about having a character see Lucy at her window not long before the wolf incident, and I was imagining how to describe the look in Lucy's eyes. Grief and fear, but overlaid with profound weariness, much like the eyes of sex workers the character knows in the dark alleys of London, who've been dealing with predators like Jack the Ripper since forever.
This made me contemplate the ways Lucy's life is both very different from a London sex worker (she has the privilege of wealth, for one thing) but also how it is similar (she has very limited agency).
And that's when I thought of how the adaptations (Coppola is my main one) have made her out to be "the devil's whore." And I thought, "Huh, it's funny, it's like they think sex workers enjoy the sex they sell."*
(*I know some sex workers do, however my guess is that that was rarely the case among impoverished sex workers of the time. I'm pro-SW and have no intention of generalizing, however.)
And that's when the idea I had came. That's exactly it. These people are mostly male, I'm assuming, though who knows maybe not always. They think people (women for simplicity's sake since I think male and trans SWs add another dimension I'm not confident in discussing right now) who sell sex must enjoy it, bc they *need* that to be true. Coppola et al. believe Lucy is a whore (their word) who wants sex because all whores must want sex because if they don't that's just too awful to contemplate. They fantasize about these women and if the women aren't into it the fantasy doesn't work anymore.
Of course there are those who like the idea of it being bad for SWs too, but we're not dealing with them here.
I hope I'm making sense. Let me try to sum up.
I think Coppola and people like him want Lucy to be a whore because it's titillating and they believe whores must want sex (and in her case, Dracula) because otherwise their fantasy can't survive the implications. SW must be willing, eager even, for it to be hot. So they throw out pure Lucy not bc she made the shocking comment about wanting to marry three men (they can see just as well as we can that it came from a place of wanting to make everyone happy, not a place of frivolity or lust) but bc she won't fit with the fantasy.
I wonder if that was like, obvious to everyone else? To me it was a realization.