Monetize your Assets

  You may know me as a mother, artist, volunteer, doula, or model. I am also an online sex worker.

  I had been underemployed relying on social assistance, short term disability for about 5 years after I separated from my husband. Allowing my body the time and space it needed to heal and recover. Discovering how to best manage my health to be at my best and to do my best. It has been a blessing to have that security after discovering I have Narcolepsy. To know I would have enough for my child and I to survive as I healed my body and mind. I realised my body and mind work differently, so I have to do things differently. I am blessed to live in a country that ensures I had enough to survive as a single mother.

  I am now fully self employed with sustainable sources of revenue through my various work as an artist. Self employment allows me to work from home where I can manage my sleep and diet with ease. With the business skills I have acquired, my knowledge of social media, marketing and owning my sexuality, I am able to monetize my assets to earn an income in the erotic arts that fits my life. I have made the shift from relying on systems funded by taxes to being able to contribute to those systems, which is an incredible feeling.

  I release the shame and guilt I associated with my sexuality and body.

  I open myself to the abundant possibilities it brings. I am worthy of thriving in this world. I recognize self acceptance and self love as a valuable asset to share with others. I recognize beauty is valuable. That sexuality is valid and safe. That my ability to profit from my beauty and sexuality in a safe, legal and pleasurable way is a legitimate choice for me to make. I recognize my energy as a valuable asset and place it where I see the best return.

  I offer a sex based product and service. I share my self love and self pleasure by selling an online fantasy created with my words and images of my body. I embrace and love my whole body. I explore my desires and experience orgasmic pleasure. Not everyone earns access to that intimate and vulnerable aspect of my self. My sexual energy and body holds value. I offer images and video of my self love. Those who see the value show it through monetary offerings in exchange for access to the intimate erotic art I create. This is my chosen work. This is work I enjoy. This is work that works for me.

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

Maya Angelou

  This is me doing the best I can with what I have. To do better. To have better. To be better. Online sex work is a bridge connecting me to my previously unseen possibilities. It’s allowing my financial independence, to honour my worth, work and values in a meaningful way. I exhausted myself doing it all on my own, having just enough to survive and running in circles around my island trying to please everyone else before honouring my truth. I was too worried about pleasing everyone else, doing what I thought they wanted from me. I struggled to see my worth, the value in living my truth.

  This bridge I’ve built is connecting me to the additional services and resources I use to thrive, on the solid foundation I have worked so hard to establish in myself. Continuing to learn, heal and create along the way. That bridge, built by patiently creating a strong foundation of health and confidence in myself, is allowing me to thrive in my truth.

  Sex work is valid work.

  Support and allow safe, legal environments for sex workers to monetize their assets through the sales of their services. Humans are sexual beings. There is demand and a market for this work. Legal and safe transactions happen in sex work, it is possible for that to be the expected norm when speaking of sex work.

Sex work is not inherently shameful or harmful; A disrespect for those who choose sex work is.

Candace Cynthia