#1180 Olivia Bentley: The Life of a Sex Worker and Misconceptions About It

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm here with Olivia Bentley. She's a porn star, an escort, a fitness influencer, a sex therapist, and she also has a master's degree in education. So today we're going to talk basically about her life as a sex worker and some of the ideas she has about sex work and what she thinks about some of the assumptions people make about sex workers.

So Olivio, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you likewise, Ricardo. Nice to meet you. Yeah, so tell us first, I mean, to start off with, tell us a little bit about your

background, I mean how you got into sex work, the kind of sex work you do, even though I've already spoiled a little bit of that in the introduction and your work as a sex therapist. Sure. Well, certainly it didn't, I I didn't like wake up, you know, um, I didn't wake up as a child and think that I was gonna be here. Life happened. um you know if we want to be realistic about life but um I was getting a divorce from my ex and my son was very young and my ex was we he's an alcoholic and sadly we are both like the same age and he's on kidney dialysis right now just to give you an idea of where we went in terms of growth and so he wasn't growing and I was trying my

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