Laura Torlaschi was in an unusual line of work.

"I am a sex worker. I use it to fund my writing and my activist work,” she told NY1 on a recent afternoon in Brooklyn.

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Starting at 20 years old, for several years she was a sex worker — first in Miami, then in New York.

Torlaschi is disabled and says she needed work that didn't take much time.

She met clients online.

"For financial reasons I ended up in sex work and there were a lot of times where kind of the psychological ter

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