Lovers, happy Monday, happy sexy sex at work Monday.

We have an incredible filmmaker slash sex worker today, and I will just say, since we

recorded this episode about three weeks ago, I feel more in love with myself.

And as I was listening back, I can see that I already feel way differently

today than I did when we recorded about owning the label of sexual artist for myself.

Our guest today is a sex worker and a filmmaker. Welcome, Jackie Ray of High Creatives.

Hey, everyone. Thank you so much for having me today.

I'm super excited to have this conversation with you.

Can you start off by telling us your sex at work origin story?

Like, what is your work actually like?

And what led you to this sex-related career?

Well, it all really started as self-empowerment, finding myself, exploring who I am, my sexuality, my desires, as, you know, a brown, fat woman, a chubby woman growing up, just like in this body where I was taught to hate myself, to hate my body, to not explore it sexually, because the desires of men were not going to find me attractive. I was just not going to fit into that

mold. So I lived most of my life just hating myself up until, I would say about five years ago,

I quit my full-time job that I felt was also putting like this pressure on who I am and who I

wanted to be and just added on to this self-hatred.

I didn't think that I was going to grow from it.

You know, I just thought that this was who I was going to be.

And so I quit my job.

My backgrounds in photography.

I went to art school for photography.

When I was in school, a lot of my work was based off of my culture and getting to know this

part of myself that I also suppressed for so long because I hated not only my skin, but

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