Eviah Shimshon Obadia-Wong got into sex work because it’s helped them make ends meet during times of financial hardship. However, her newfound confidence in her transgender body and queer sexuality has made her realize she might finally be ready to leave the profession.
This is a First Person column by Eviah S. Obadia-Wong, who lives in B.C.'s Interior. For more information about CBC's First Person stories,He gave me one last pat on my butt, upwards with his palm as all the kinky sex books tell you to, though gentler than he'd been laying it on for the previous hour. More precisely, the last hour and 20 minutes. My smartwatch had given me little silent taps since our time ran out, but he wanted to cuddle afterwards.
Eviah Shimshon Obadia-Wong did under-the-table sex work in 2009 in a body they said gave them waves of dysphoria.After coming out as a non-binary trans woman and the more visible effects of hormone replacement therapy made themselves known, I realized I suddenly had a lot in common with nearly all my female-identifying friends.
While there was the obvious matter of my safety and more than my fair share of creeps and transphobes to consider, I've found more people than not to be genuinely kind and good-natured at their core. The interest in my new body felt affirming. Obviously, I've also had some unpleasant experiences as an escort, but who hasn't had a nightmare customer or a terrible day at work where nothing seems to be going the way it should? Sex is simply a human need, and sex workwork at the end of the day. I would be lying if I said I had no reservations about acquiescing my body to market demands. I was, after all, finally in a body I felt comfortable in. Accepting my authentic self took a long time and much work to achieve.
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