There are many misconceptions about prostitutes, who are often depicted as drug addicts touting for business on the streets. Here, Broadstairs writer and dominatrix Melissa Todd dispels some of the myths about sex workers – and their punters… Have you noticed how, when the newspapers run a story about prostitutes, they illustrate it with a woman in a short skirt, bending to talk through an open car window? As if it were 1983. As if sex workers didn’t arrange all their hookups indoors, online, as we all do; indoors, where it’s warm, dry and safe. No, the myth of the streetwalker continues to pr…
