The I'm Can you just introduce yourself?

Yeah, hi, I'm Aila, and I'm a sex worker, researcher, writer, among other things.

What do you think of as your primary thing that you are, on the internet, I mean?

Well, I think it depends a lot, right? Because, like, usually you identify as whatever is sort of

most distinct about you or, like, has the greatest social impact. And that is either sex worker

or writer slash researcher, depending on what circles I'm in.

Aila is one of the,

there's no perfect word for this,

but one of the characters of this chapter of the internet,

one of its personalities.

She's a writer.

She writes mainly on her substack,

which is called Knowing Less.

Sometimes she writes about her life as a professional sex worker.

Sometimes she conducts surveys about sexuality, polling internet strangers to find out about

their habits and desires.

She ran one survey about people's fetishes that garnered over 700,000 responses.

Sex worker who does online surveys about sex, frankly to me sounds like a description of

a person I would ordinarily find pretty boring.

People who talk a lot about sex publicly, to me often just sound like they're strenuously

working overtime to remind me that they've had it.

But I deeply enjoy AIL's writing.

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