Woman Adds Sex Work To The Experience Section Of Her LinkedIn Profile: Here's Why

A LinkedIn user recently posted a screenshot of how Sex Work was in the Work Experience section of her profile. In the post, she shared her reasoning behind this move, while her decision to do so stunned users of the networking app.

Arielle Egozi explained in her post how doing sex work allowed her to leave an in-house job by making an abundant amount of money and helping her feel powerful.

Egozi said that anyone who she collaborates with would celebrate and accept every experience she will bring with her to a project. She added, “They don’t have to understand it, but they better respect the hell out of it”.

Egozi further wrote, “I stopped pitching and negotiating. I have nothing to prove. I’ve done the work up front to make my value evident.”

She then asked, “Why is this different than any other client work?” Egozi clarified that sex work was on her LinkedIn profile as it was not different from any other client work.

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Netizens React To Woman Adding Sex Work In LinkedIn Profile

Some people congratulated Egozi for finding a job that she found empowering and paid her well. One user commented, “In my experience, people who disrespect sex work and sex workers do so to aggrandize themselves… Your comfort in your own skin threatens their worldview and calls into question their beliefs about what they ‘deserve’ and why”.

Another user commented on their experience with hiring someone who previously worked at an adult entertainment company as a content manager. The person had lied on their resume and named another company as their employer because they were embarrassed about it. The user thanked Egozi for breaking the stigma surrounding sex work and adding it to her public resume.

Meanwhile, some users offered up criticism and one person commented, "What I’m missing in the comments is peoples discussion regarding sense of morality and the dignity of women. Nor are there comments refering to appropriatness of advertising and marketing what is obstensively prostitution on Linkedin." The user further added that he had no personal issue with someone taking on sex work roles, as it was a personal choice, "however, like other ‘professions’ and peoples ‘rights’ of detrrmination. there have to be boundaries and guidelines that are acceptable to the majority of a business and society."