Being a sex worker in a sexting chat room!?

That doesn't even sexting

l've been hanging out on this old IRC chat room but I'm not going to name in full, because I don't want to give it in traffic but I will call it l-chat, and now I see what's wrong with it. A lot of people in there are nice, but it's mostly men asking women for nudes, sexting, BDSM, roleplay all that kind of stuff. But today I openly complained about how a lot of men want to ask women to do all of these things and they actually want it for free. when I said I want to get paid for my time, at least three people in the chat room (not a lot of people there) jumped on me like you can't ask for money here. and it's weird that it's okay to ask people for sex, but it's not okay to ask for money for the sex. 

And then someone said that their internet connection was weak, and they said that I'm here because my internet connection is weak. It's a very bare-bones thing, very basic old internet IRC. It's the best place to go for my 2G mobile internet connection. someone asked me where I stream, and I told him that I stream on Chaturbate, and then someone else said that I can't promote myself. I can't even answer a question on that bitch.

It's like that saying "skinfolk ain't kinfolk". Just because you go to a place that is pointed towards sexual activity being okay, does it mean that sex workers are going to be allowed. Goddesd forbid I would ever see a dime for all of that sexting that at least 20 men are dming me for every time I enter the chat. 

It's so easy to demonize sex workers, even in 2020 on late 90s IRC chat rooms. but that also explains why there's so boring and why there's hardly ever anyone in there. They're not talking about anything of sustenance. there are no deep conversations. They're just people that get bored together and just talk about the weather and nothing consequential, and a lot of horny "18 year olds" looking for sexting, roleplay, in nudes. That anti sex worker narrative runs off all the interesting people. they can have their iPhone versus Android arguments with their never-ending supply of horny broke men wanting to be a time vampire to any given woman.

I also want to acknowledge that I'm very lucky to have experienced this. Thanks to modern technology I don't actually have to put myself in the way of physical danger. I'd much rather take Petty arguments online chat rooms to being beaten and robbed.

Platforms come and go. Hopefully, that one will die soon. It's a bunch of garbage man perpetuating the patriarchy, and the women who defend them. But I hope the three lovely women that I've had very pleasant conversations with find a more positive, progressive, and supportive place to chat after that one falls.