Work Is Work It Isn’t by Espi Kvlt

E-mails exchanged
with words like “pussy play” and “anal fucked”
preceded by words like
“And how will you be paying this evening?”
and “Would you like this video shot on a DSLR,
or on a webcam?”

Business is business is business.
Work is work is work.

For my vanilla job,
I work at an arcade
and put on a show
to collect the most money I can
in an eight hour period.

Work is work is work.
And the lines begin to blur.

I collect magazines
and fill up binders with models
who often pose naked and are never asked,
“Is what you’re doing a real job?”
They have stylists, photographers, and agents.
I only have myself.

And with myself and my thoughts
in my well-lit living room,
wearing lingerie and make-up
and deciding what dildo I’m going to be using,
I wonder why it is
that no matter how much I work
work isn’t work isn’t work
when you spend twelve hours on one video
and wake up each morning to people asking,
“Why don’t you get a real job?”

Espi Kvlt is a 22 year old college graduate with a degree in English-Writing. They are a nonbinary, pan/bisexual sex worker, who has been in the sex work industry since they were 18. Since graduating college this past May, Espi has worked on both expanding their sex work business and attempting to get published. Espi works as an alternative model for GodsGirls and XtremePlayPen, as well as makes porn and is a cam model. Espi is very outspoken about sex worker rights and how that intersects with feminism and gender/sexuality issues, and hopes to get an even wider audience involved through their writing.

You can find Espi at instagram.com/espikvlt