Margaret Cho Opens Up About Being A Sex Worker -- Says There's 'No Shame'

Margaret Cho got really real on Thursday night during a Twitter conversation about her former life as a sex worker.
In a heartbreaking interview with Billboard Magazine last month, the comedienne revealed she was sexually abused as a child and bullied by her classmates. Between the ages of five and 12, the 46-year-old said she was molested by a close family friend — and then again later throughout her teenage years.
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In the series of tweets this week, Cho defended her past working in the sex industry:

“Sex work is simply work. For me it was honest work. I was a sex worker when I was young. It was hard but well paid. There’s no shame in it.

The outspoken comic — who filed for divorce from her husband of 11 years in August — was asked by a fan if her experience as a sex worker made it difficult to be in relationships, to which she responded:

I don’t believe so. I think being molested as a child had more to do with that. But as a sex worker I had power+$$$ https://t.co/KRvKI2e1Zx
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

The San Francisco native continued by saying she did what she needed to do to make money at the time, but she doesn’t have any regrets:

I have way more PTSD from rape. That’s real. Sex work was just a good way to make money. At least for me then. https://t.co/bPP2MRB911
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

Read more of the honest tweets (below)!

I support sex workers because I was one and I know that it’s a job that’s needlessly shunned by society when frankly we should be worshipped
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

I know. And that’s terrible. I was not exploited and I don’t know girls or women who were. We were tough and proud. https://t.co/fVDr59c9B2
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

It’s true. We’re way more powerless as kids. I found my strength as a sex worker and gained a lot of power as I grew https://t.co/CsETIS4BUn
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

Sex workers are glorified in the Bible!Mary Magdalene was a whore and Jesus loved her. The Bible has been turned against us by jealous men.
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

That’s right. It’s sickening that they drag us into their own suffering. We give them so much. It’s their shame. https://t.co/i9Gt4DDrQa
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) October 29, 2015

For someone who has experienced so much hardship, we commend Cho for being proud of her past and engaging in conversation with her followers.
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