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Saving a relationship

despairingmumCasual Contributor30 Mar 2021, 8:47 am AEDT

Saving a relationship

Hi everyone. I am new here and hoping to find some answers or support. My adult daughter is a sex worker and we find that impossible to deal with. We have not seen her for 7 months but have had some phone and text contact with her. Her perception of what she is doing and ours could not be further apart. She sees herself as empowered and living an exciting life, while we feel that she is living a life that we cannot share. We feel utterly bereft of the relationship we expected to share with her and cannot share our feelings with any of our friends. While there is a lot of support for sex workers, there is none for their families. I believe she may have Narcissistic Personality Disorder as she cannot empathise with our feelings and is totally focused on money and her appearance (to the point of surgery), and is always looking for approval on social media etc. Is there anyone out there who deals with a similar situation? How do you maintain your relationship?

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LvmCasual Contributor22 May 2021, 6:12 pm AEST

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Thats a very difficult situation for you. Your daughter is following a trend of liberal feminism which adheres to the sexualisation & objectification of women. Its a modern trend. Its all money based and feed young women the idea that they gain self worth this way. They do not. The porn industry is extremely harmful to her, all women, young girls / boys and men too. Have a look at an org in AU called Collective Shout for more info on topic. I myself am not sure of orgs that support you her family as so many are pro prostitution- ethically it is not work, but liberal fem claims it to be. There are millions of young women like your daughter. All you can do it keep the lines of communication open with her. Social media and online sex companies make women selling their bodies even easier now days. Express to her you are not anti sex but her objectifying herself, say consent cannot be paid for or rented by men. Share Collective Shout with her. A Book by a lady Rachel Moran Paid For is also about the harms of sex industry.

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