It’s a common misconception that people would never willingly choose sex work, mostly because they don’t see it as work. Either it’s a last resort, or it’s trafficking. Similar to tools used in anti-trans rhetoric, providers often encounter the blanket assumption that people who choose sex work only do so because they experienced childhood sexual abuse or other traumatic abuse in adulthood. Funny enough, those things did happen, but I didn’t choose sex work out of the pain of those experiences.