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I go through phases with what kind of media I like to consume the most, and video games are one thing I come back to a lot. I’ve been playing games and coming across sex workers in them since long before I became a sex worker myself. Some of the examples that might first come to mind would be games like GTA or The Witcher. For me, the first time I remember playing a game that had a brothel in it was with the Dragon Age franchise.
During the course of the game, there are many areas you can enter that have side quests or easter-egg content. I ended up in one of the brothels. At the time when I first played it, I wasn’t get a sex worker and was around 15 years old. I knew very little about prostitution other than what I’d heard on TV or read about in articles. It was something interesting to me, a little shocking and risqué, so I laughed to myself and selected one of the available options in the brothel in the game to be given a line-up of characters.
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“The player-character, one you have designed and named and likely project onto, reacts with shock and trepidation at the sight of a trans sex worker automatically. “
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