We All Owe Adriana Chechik A Lot More Respect
If you've ever masturbated to porn, you owe porn stars your respect. It's as simple as that. You can call out issues in the adult industry, have problems with its glorification or the way it warps society's sexual mores, and object to any number of controversies, drawbacks, and failings of sex work, but if you use it, you respect it. No exceptions. We often have the same contempt we have for sex workers as we do our garbage collectors and fast food workers. You don't get to belittle garbage collectors if you still want your garbage collected, and you don't get to bully fast food workers and still expect your cheeseburger with fries. When it comes to Adriana Chechik though, we don't seem to have gotten the message.
Chechik is a former porn star, now streamer, and many in the press and public eye have found it difficult to let go of her past. We like to humiliate women, as a society, and even though we consume vast quantities of pornography and therefore need workers to keep producing it, we struggle to see sex workers as anything but their job, even as we mock and dismiss it. Being a porn star is definitely an interesting job - if Chechik were a former librarian, it would never be mentioned because who cares that she used to be a librarian. But it has quickly gone from a cool backstory to a thumb to keep her under.
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This week, Chechik was one of TwitchCon's many casualties in the foam pit. A knee high pit of foam blocks on a hard concrete floor was one of the convention's entertainment spots, and it was exactly as unsafe as it sounds. Chechik landed awkwardly in the pit, breaking her back in two places and requiring immediate surgery. It's an excruciatingly painful
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