“What kind of classist argument is that? Do we only assume people without options only want to do sex work? Obviously not,” said Hardy. Yet, for Hardy, there was nothing complicated about his decision to leave his respectable job as a federal employee and dive into sex work full-time, which has raised the eyebrows of many people who wonder why someone on the cusp of holding an advanced degree is laying it low and spreading it wide for nearly 40,000 followers on freak Twitter alone and OnlyFans. Of course, it lacks the complexity of how people wanted them and what they wanted them for,” he pointed out. “I was adopted and I was told that I wasn’t wanted, and here are these women, and it seemed like everyone wanted them. Hardy, who grew up in New York City’s ballroom scene and exclusively dates Black trans women, tells The Reckoning that the power and allure he witnessed in Black trans sex workers further cemented his desire to participate in sex work. And the money I’d get paid for two weeks, I made over the course of four days working a total of 7 hours. At the post office, I’d have to work five or six days a week, 60 hours a week.
So either you’re a scammer or you’re an escort. “You always have money, but you never go to work,” Hardy said referring to his friend.