But what’s interesting to me here is Mimi’s work in relationship to her writing goals, something I’m also very familiar with – the artist vs. the sex worker and her experiences in the thick of it as a young person. Despite the freedom the sex industry gives an artist financially, none of my sexworker friends managed to make a real go of it in the art world. Ones identity does indeed change in this field. I have a very good friend who is a career prostitute but was an incredibly brilliant artist in college. She’s stopped doing art, and I find that so sad for someone so talented. But who am I to judge – from her stories she’s quite a brilliant prostitute as well.