The expression – “living the life” – is a romantic gloss on what it is to be prostituted. It is used lightly to make the prostituted sub-humans.

It is used to say we are a special species that feel no human pain, a special species that just love having sex with multiple anonymous men, a special species that does not mind being used and thrown away.

That is framed as living the life.

You feel safe and sheltered as you Other the prostituted – closing your eyes and ears to our genocide – you look for real women and girls who are having real suffering.

I have enough of be nice about the constant turning away from the living deaths of the prostituted.

You have the safety to turn away from our horror – we cannot as trauma is deep inside our souls reminding that we are only heard by…