‘Someone You Love is a Sex Worker’

stripping away stigma with performer & cybertease co-founder, victoria rose

Ferrero Rochelle & Rosie Verbose had a fascinating time chatting to burlesque performer, Hoxton Cabaret producer & founding member of Cybertease (a pioneering online strip club), Victoria Rose! She shares some of her experiences of how mental health, creativity and sex work all intertwine. We’re so grateful Victoria took the time to educate us on what it’s like working in the adult industry, and particularly her perspective on being a SWer with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Find Victoria Rose online on Instagram, Twitter & OF.

CW: this episode is not graphic, but we are talking about SW throughout, so we do touch on themes around sex work and the dangers involved. There’s also some coarse language from the start.

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'Someone You Love Is a S-x Worker' | Stripping Away Stigma with VICTORIA ROSE – The Invisible Cabaret Podcast: Mental Health & The Arts

Ferrero Rochelle & Rosie Verbose had a fascinating time chatting to burlesque performer, Hoxton Cabaret producer & founding member of Cybertease (a pioneering online strip club), Victoria Rose! She shares some of her experiences of how mental health, creativity and s-x work all intertwine (sorry about the censorship, blame the Internet 🙇‍♀️). We're so grateful Victoria took the time to educate us on what it's like working in the s-x industry in general, and particularly her perspective on being a SWer with Borderline Personality Disorder. Find Victoria Rose online on Instagram, Twitter & OF. Full URL of episode transcript here: https://invisiblecabaret.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/VicRose-transcript.pdf CW: this episode is not graphic, but we are talking about SW throughout, so we do touch on themes around s-x and the dangers involved. There's also some coarse language from the start. *** Things mentioned in the podcast: The Jerry Springer Show  Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) / Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) – for more on this, have a listen to our chats with Lucy Dickson and our very own Mouncealot! Hoxton Cabaret Cybertease: also on Twitter Secretary (2002) Some advice on working from home with ADHD Nordic Model & Bristol Strip Clubs – if you'd like to get involved in the activism surrounding this issue, Bristol Sex Workers Collective have some great resources. If you're the sort of person who wants to hear both sides, here's what radical feminists in favour of the Nordic Model say. Rochelle's Instant pot What is a Doula? Cybertease Patreon SW union Some useful links for the mental health issues mentioned can be found on our website. *** Edited and mixed by Matt Ennis, www.mennismixing.co.uk Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod , available by license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://www.invisiblecabaret.org

When I started sex work, I was going through therapy and one of the things that my therapist put on there was like, ‘Oh, so you want to stop sex work, yeah?’ Like, thinking that I was doing it because I needed to and because I was doing it out of sense, because I was in such an unstable place… The fact I went into sex wasn’t ’cause of my mental health, it was because of capitalism!

Victoria rose

THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST with cybertease’s victoria rose:

• The Jerry Springer Show 
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) / Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) – for more on this, have a listen to our chats with Lucy Dickson and our very own Mouncealot!
• Hoxton Cabaret
• Cybertease: website; also on Twitter
• Secretary (2002)
• Some advice on working from home with ADHD
• Nordic Model & Bristol Strip Clubs – if you’d like to get involved in the activism surrounding this issue, Bristol Sex Workers Collective have some great resources. If you’re the sort of person who wants to hear both sides, here’s what radical feminists in favour of the Nordic Model say.
• Rochelle’s Instant pot
• What is a Doula?
• Cybertease Patreon
• SW union

If any of the issues raised in this episode are affecting you, please do not be afraid to seek support. Help is available. The NHS website has a great directory to get you started.

Read the transcript here or download it here:

If you enjoyed this episode, you might be interested to hear from fellow burlesquers Demi Noire, Ida Sanguine, or Petit Pois!

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