Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. In New Zealand, the government fully decriminalized sex work in , making it legal for any citizen aged 18 or over to buy or sell sexual services. The Cut spoke to a year-old sex worker from Auckland who goes by the name Bubbles to find out what her life is like.
I was working in a factory and I needed a new car. My average workweek looks like this: on Monday, I look at all my bills and decide if it will be a busy week, or a cruis-y week. I advertise in our national newspaper and Backpage.
I pay taxes β this is work like any other job. I mainly work from home with two other ladies. My clients are just normal men who want to get rid of some sexual frustration.
Some look so young that I have to ask them for ID because the law say that you have to be 18 to pay for sex. Those young guys are the hardest to work with β they are such babies. Elderly gentlemen are lovely because all they want is company, cuddles, skin to skin, someone to talk to. Before sex work was decriminalized I had to be very careful about wording when I advertised.
Because my work is legal, if anything goes wrong, the police have to help. Before the law changed I had a panic button and a cricket bat under my bed. We were at his house and the first room he took me to had bunk beds. I can also call the cops if a client robs me. I feel like I found my calling. I take time to put them at ease, work my personality. We take lovely vacations together with my sex-work money.
