Last month, Toronto sex worker Jessica Lee issued a statement on the Toronto Escort Review Board, a website for people who buy and sell sexual services in the Toronto area. In her posting, she urged her fellow sex workers to join her in a campaign to send letters to parliamentarians, informing them about the experiences of people who practice “high end sex work.” Her goal is to convince Parliament to reject Bill C-36, legislation that would, if passed, criminalize many aspects of the sex trade.
Lee christened her campaign the “Happy Hookers of Canada” and explained that her movement is necessary because it “separates the experience of [those] choosing high end sex work” from “those stuck in the survival sex trade.” She argued that high end sex work is “generally a free-will choice” made by “empowered women” and contrasted it with survival sex work, which she claimed is entered into by people facing poverty, battling addictions or experiencing mental health problems.
As a sex worker of nine years and a fellow advocate of decriminalizing the sex trade in Canada, I was dismayed to learn of Lee’s attempt to divide sex workers into categories of either happy or unhappy. I was also disappointed to see her reinforce the myth that addiction and mental illness are problems faced primarily by so-called survival sex workers, and rarely by high end escorts. The reality is that people working in our industry have diverse experiences. Some enjoy doing sex work. Others do not. Some people are ambivalent.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/05/celine-bisette-sex-workers-unite/
Lee christened her campaign the “Happy Hookers of Canada” and explained that her movement is necessary because it “separates the experience of [those] choosing high end sex work” from “those stuck in the survival sex trade.” She argued that high end sex work is “generally a free-will choice” made by “empowered women” and contrasted it with survival sex work, which she claimed is entered into by people facing poverty, battling addictions or experiencing mental health problems.
As a sex worker of nine years and a fellow advocate of decriminalizing the sex trade in Canada, I was dismayed to learn of Lee’s attempt to divide sex workers into categories of either happy or unhappy. I was also disappointed to see her reinforce the myth that addiction and mental illness are problems faced primarily by so-called survival sex workers, and rarely by high end escorts. The reality is that people working in our industry have diverse experiences. Some enjoy doing sex work. Others do not. Some people are ambivalent.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/05/celine-bisette-sex-workers-unite/
Sorry, but I don't know any HAPPY HOOKERS who are not safe. 
