Support for Industry & Ex-Industry Girls
If you or someone you know is or was in the sex industry, we have some resources we want to let you know about! X GIRLS X Girls is a web series where we answer questions about the imact of the sex industry and life after sex work from the perspective of women [...]
Sharing Your Story : X Girls Episode 10
Sharing Your Story : X Girls Episode 10 WATCH NOW My story matters. And while my story matters, it also doesn’t define me. As Bronwen said in this episode, “What I have done is not who I am”. We believe that everyone has a unique story and that even the most painful [...]
Sex : X Girls Episode 9
Sex X Girls Episode 9 WATCH NOW As the widely used marketing slogan goes, “Sex sells”. It does. And the sex industry sells sex to the tune of 13.3 billion annually in the US alone. These revenues are bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined (Internet Filter Review). [...]
Dating & Men: X Girls Episode 8
Dating & Men X Girls Episode 8 WATCH NOW One of the most talked about topics in the Treasures support group is that of dating and men. Many of us who have left the industry have come to discover that although we left sex work behind, we still have the same patterns of relating [...]
Friendships & Community X Girls Episode 7
Friendships & Community X Girls Episode 7 WATCH NOW What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~Kurt Vonnegut God wired us for relationship. We are innately designed [...]
Confidence & Beauty: X Girls Episode 6
Confidence & Beauty X Girls Episode 6 WATCH NOW “There is only one of you for all eternity, so fearlessly be yourself” ~Anthony Rapp We live in an image driven culture, and the sex industry is the epitome of it. The standard of beauty that I was compelled to live up [...]
Choose Courage: X Girls Episode 5: (My Mind)
Choose Courage X Girls Episode 5: (My Mind) By Ashley Abercrombie Few things stir the human heart like fantasy. Often we assign the fantasy gene solely to men and their desires, but the truth is, we are all guilty. How many times have we been at the gym, staring with envy at someone else’s rock [...]
Boundaries: X Girls Episode 4
Boundaries X Girls Episode 4 WATCH: X Girls Episode 4: Boundaries The sex industry is anchored in fantasy. Many of us who have worked in the sex industry created a fantasy persona that is based on meeting the wants, needs and desires of someone else. In the strip club, my fantasy persona was [...]
The Aftermath: X Girls Episode 3
The Aftermath X Girls Episode 3 WATCH: X Girls Episode 3: The Aftermath When I think about the word “aftermath,” I think of what happens after the dust settles following a disaster. I think about the “pieces” that I was left to pick up emotionally after working in the sex industry. In this [...]
Bitter Ain’t Sweet…
I still remember the first time I saw a man pray outside of a church service. I was gulping orchata and getting ready to tear into my burrito when one of the guys at the lunch table broke into prayer. The saying “to him who is hungry, even what is bitter tastes sweet” has always [...]
