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Those things are not a result of a life choice you make, and being a sex worker is.” As Fattorosi says, it's “not like saying we’re letting you go because you’re black or Jewish or you wear a turban. Unfortunately, according to adult entertainment lawyer Michael Fattorosi, employee discrimination cases involving sex workers are usually “very, very difficult to win." There are no specific protections for sex workers under current discrimination legislation, meaning that firing someone because they blew a dude in front of a camera 3 years ago is as fine and dandy as firing them because they pissed in your desk drawer. Worse, there was no legal protection for her. She was let go without a explanation - "We just feel like your talents would better be suited somewhere else." - and was left to fend for herself without unemployment thanks to an obscure California law that says you can be terminated without benefits due to misconduct outside work. A coworker at her old job brazenly walked up to her after a meeting and asked, "Hey aren't you that threesome girl from the cam site?" After she found the revenue to be too modest, she stopped and put the experience past her, thinking the probability of being recognized for such a short, non-memorable stint was so small that it didn't merit constant psychic stress and paranoia. Her performance was nothing major or spectacular - she'd masturbated on camera a couple times, blown a guy, and, most impactfully, had a threesome with that same guy and a mutual friend.
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She's not sure if it's because she has a preexisting condition that makes insuring her expensive for employers, or the more likely option: because she's done porn.Ī few years back, she'd tried camming on the site LiveJasmin, hoping it would put a dent in her massive student loan debt. With her degree and prior experience, the 28-year-old account supervisor is overqualified, but she's been having some trouble getting a job recently. Nina* sits by the phone, anxiously awaiting a call back from the ad agency she recently applied to.