The sex industry has become general for some time. It is becoming more and more a discussed topic, which is no longer hidden in the lower echelons of society. And nothing can be more obvious of its spread in the basic pillars of our modern world than its entry into the arts.
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A phrase once invented by Rudyard Kipling, there is a reason why prostitution is known as "the oldest profession in the world." From the dawn of time, it has satisfied our fundamental need for company. However, even armed with today's liberal attitudes, the true representation of escorts is often distorted by social stigma and the inability to consider the legitimacy of the profession.
The preconception about escorts and their alleged lack of self-determination, being allegedly led into the dirty sex trade by a man behind a curtain, is exactly what a new play, called The Oldest Profession, is trying to challenge. The play is currently running at the Rainbow Theater Project in Washington DC. It is written by Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and explores the daily lives of five sex workers.
True to theatrical conventions, the play invades some taboo (or dangerous) modern precepts about the industry, as well as about the women who work in it. First of all, that not all teenagers are trafficked from distant lands - the play features five women driven individually for over 40 years, who are still very fond of what they do.
What is interesting to us is the critical response of the play, with some critics criticizing the play as a fantastic description of modern sex work incongruously painted as reality.
A review by Michael Poandl, for example, describes the play as "pure fantasy" because, as she puts it, "the lives of escorts, almost without exception, are stories of misery sprinkled with violence, sexual assault, addiction and poverty."
This archaic perception is in contradiction with the characters in the play, who are concerned with the basic daily problems of sex work, from looking good to simply living a normal life. bucharest escorts
Similarly, the same critic wonders why the play was supported by the LGBTQ community to begin with, with a short-sighted interpretation of who the community actually represents. Yes, there are few lesbian and gay characters, but the play is not about that. The play is about freeing escorts from the shadows of society, recognizing women not as victims, but as individuals with rights who make choices every day of their lives.
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The LGBTQ community has often been a voice against the so-called Swedish model of criminalizing prostitution, especially for its insistence on considering escorts as victims in denial. So, we are not at all surprised by Rainbow's choice to play the play, but what surprises us is the insistence from some parts of the media to really deny the reality of a victimless prostitute - insofar as even in the theater , escorts the existence of a life full of torment is as foreign to them as a world of spaceships and dragons.
Theater has always served to decompose controversial issues into an edible form, adopting the filter of fiction to help address socially taboo subjects. So, we assume that this is just another case where it is difficult for people to swallow, but one day, with a continuous representation through art, the world of escorts will be available for open discussions.
