coffeedrinker

Sex work is real work. It isn’t selfish to enjoy your work and want to continue to do it. Issues of jealousy or possessiveness need to be talked out and resolved. Saying “quit your job because I don’t like how you use your body,” is unfair. Even if there are other work options. People shouldn’t stop having to do work they like just because of their partner. Because there are people who are fine with it, and there are people who understand this line of work, and people who understand that they don’t own their partner. And people who understand that sex for work is nothing like sex with a partner.

The thing that scares me is that the bottom is a pretty realistic depiction of someone who has been horribly emotionally abused for years and years, forced to become completely reliant on their abuser and isolated from the world, etc. Like. The author hits on even less talked about but very real aspects of escaping from and recovering from an abusive relationship.
And yet she... talks like the abuser is a good person? How? How? How? How do you write one of the most realistic effects of a toxic abusive relationship on the victim/survivor and still not realize? Or justify it?
Yeah. I'm waiting until this story ends. I assumed it would end with the bottom getting with the non-abusive character but my expectations have hit rock bottom.