'I'm a porn star - people still shaming sex workers in 2022 should wake up'

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sex workers' in 2022 should 'wake up to reality'.The adult film star said that conventions were long ago put into place in order to keep women firmly in their place.However, Cindy, who was born in Vietnam but now lives in the US, said that "those days are over".After two years of covid restrictions, Cindy said sex work is more popular than ever."Sex work is more prevalent than ever and people no longer have the power to discredit or stigmatise our career choices,' said Cindy."It's a far cry from when the threat of our ‘secrets’ being ‘outed’ to our families weighed heavily on us."Cindy recounts the time a little more than a decade ago when she was working a 9-5 job at a famous fashion retail store while moonlighting in the evenings as a webcam model to help pay off her student loans and supplement her meagre retail salary.“I kept this night job completely separate from my day job."However, one day I was called into HR and confronted with my profile photo from the cam site."They told me that a customer alerted HR, but I believe it to be someone else who sent the photo to my company, as well as every woman in his family."Even though having this second job wasn’t ‘wrong’, I was shamed by HR - they ‘expected more’ from me - and now that all my co-workers knew about my other job, I found myself in a hostile work situation and had to quit the job."She added: "This was nothing in comparison to my former boyfriend’s family sending me harassing and rude texts… his mother told me I was ruining her family." Now with the rise of OnlyFans, which exploded in popularity during the pandemic, independent content creators became their own bosses and working from home took on a whole new meaning. “With nearly two million content creators.