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Sammi ponders feminism and other things

A personal experience…

I’m going to mention here about and incident a few weeks ago. To be honest it seems like it isn’t part of my life, but it did happen. I’m quite nervous about posting this.

Anyhow, maybe I should actually just tell it, hopefully all will become clear!

I was at a party a little while ago, and it was quite good fun, only, for reasons I can’t really remember now, I was feeling a bit lonely and such things. So on the way home I was quite down. I got off the bus, and I was walking up the road. A man approached me, and I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I understood what he meant: we would have some sort of sexual encounter, and he would give me money for this. I wasn’t certain quite what he expected, but I agreed. He took me down an alleyway-type thing, where I gave him a blow job.

Unsurprisingly, it was an unpleasant experience. I don’t want to go into too much detail about it – I am preparing a post where I will go into it a little bit more. I think I did it, though, because I didn’t see any reason why not to. I’m pretty sure I thought that he wanted to, and I wasn’t worth enough to say know.

I’m kind of scared about posting this, for a number of reasons. I really don’t want to offend somebody with this. Overall in my life I have been quite privileged, I think, and I really don’t want to compare my experiences with those of women who have to make the choice to go into prostitution (or any part of the sex industry) time after time, or equally with those who struggle to exit the sex industry. I’m also not entirely certain how I feel about it. Time will tell, I guess.

17 September 2008 - Posted by sammisal | Personal experiences | , | 3 Comments

3 Comments »

  1. Wow. My only suggestion is to check yourself for STDs. Otherwise, if you’re okay with what happened, then don’t let it bother you too much. We all do things on a whim sometimes. You’re pretty brave for sharing!

    Comment by Dollface | 18 September 2008

  2. Yeah – that’s pretty much the only response there is. I’ve been saying for ages that one day I’m going to do something crazy, people don’t really realise it, though.

    I’m just trying to hang on, though – I’ve got my first appointment with a counsellor, who is a feminist that was recommended to me by a friend, next week. Maybe she will sort out my life.

    Comment by sammisal | 18 September 2008

  3. Good luck. I’m seeing a therapist currently, and talking to her actually helps a lot. It’s really important to find someone you can stand, though. The first therapist I saw was crazy, and she tried convincing me I was addicted to blow jobs (quite the opposite actually, I was having panic attacks because I thought I had STDs).

    Comment by Dollface | 18 September 2008


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