I understand what you're saying. The privileged background isn't quite what I was getting at, it's more about what it allowed her to do once she entered the industry and the kind of people she'll have had contact with. She wasn't getting the dregs, she was meeting normal people. Unlike the likes of Rachel Moran who was a drug addict and was actually abused by clients (and probably who because of her addictions and her receiving ongoing abuse, would not have been able to foster any good relationships with regulars.)
I know we all have problems relative to us no matter who we are or our background, just because someone's not Palestine doesn't mean that they're not hurting, trauma is relative.
Specifically, I don't buy Mia's story because of the privilege she would have had in the industry. It's as easy a run as it can be when you're someone like that. I don't buy that she was being abused by her clients just because they existed. This how they looked at her, talked about her, objectified her - is a dramatisation and projecting. She was young and traumatised. The demons didn't exist.
She told men she was up for fun, she told them they've have a good time, she rocked up to fancy houses, stayed for a half hour on the button, took €150 and went and bought a handbag. Then, complained that men had sex with her and didn't give her any hugs.
Did she put in her advert that she doesn't like sex and only wants hugs.
It's not for everyone. If you're traumatised, you're probably going to have a hard time in all sexual situations and romantic relationships until you are sorted.
That sounds cold but, you know, she's capitalising and has built a business on something that simply isn't true. And the non truth of her and pushing that narrative is something that impacts on sex workers.
She's the psychologist, I'm just a lowly escort so maybe I'm way off target but I would say to people that you can't be happy in this unless you can enjoy having sex with strangers as you would enjoy having dinner OR unless you find having sex with strangers as irrelevant as having dinner with someone.
Her clients, not rapists. Some, entitled pricks - probably, but not rapists. Her problem was, unfortunately, with herself.
I've had a young person in my life with a history of abuse query if they should enter the industry.
I told them that it will change them forever for better or worse, note their existing trauma, and that they could not possibly be happy with their decision unless they can happily treat it like going for dinner OR unless they can happily treat it as irrelevant like going for dinner. But whatever their decision, they need to own it because if they end up feeling like they're being being abused by people who aren't abusing them, they can't then blame people who aren't abusing them. Again, she's privileged and she would be privileged in the industry, and she wouldn't be putting up an advert looking for hugs.
Mia probably didn't have that talk with anyone but she is a grown woman now who's had time to mull it over.