Lady
Aster is a post-transgender escort and
pro-submissive living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She was raised as a boy by conservative parents in the suburbs
of Washington D.C. She studied philosophy in college, finding
there a lifelong interest in ideas -- reading among others
Nietzsche, Hegel, Husserl, Sartre, and Leo Strauss. Her first
intellectual love was the novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, but it
was not to be, and she became fascinated by the promise of
countercultural radicalism and pro-sex feminism. “Liberty
requires resistance not merely to state coercion but also the
cultural power of patriarchy, racism, and sexual repression to
crush the human spirit.”
In January 2004, Lady Aster finally found the courage to come
out as a transgender woman, say ‘good-bye to all that’, and move
to San Francisco. She soon decided to make real a life-long
fantasy and experiment with prostitution. “Yes, I was crazy to
try this, but it was still the best decision of my life. Sex
work gave me the first sense of passion and the first chance for
independence I found in this world, and a spiritual calling that
has beautifully changed me.” In March 2005 she completed her
sex-change and has chosen to continue sex work in her new body.
Besides her work, she currently hosts an online salon, pens
essays and poetry, and enjoys fantasy gaming. Her dream in life
is to train herself and eventually practice as a courtesan.
“Sex work is for some a nightmare of exploitation, for some a
neutral means of income, for some a vocation and a source of
joy. Please, let us free women from the first, but I demand
equal respect for my human rights and the rights of all sex
workers to pursue happiness as we so choose.”
Lady
Aster is a post-transgender escort and
pro-submissive living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.
She was raised as a boy by conservative parents in the suburbs
of Washington D.C. She studied philosophy in college, finding
there a lifelong interest in ideas -- reading among others
Nietzsche, Hegel, Husserl, Sartre, and Leo Strauss. Her first
intellectual love was the novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, but it
was not to be, and she became fascinated by the promise of
countercultural radicalism and pro-sex feminism. “Liberty
requires resistance not merely to state coercion but also the
cultural power of patriarchy, racism, and sexual repression to
crush the human spirit.” 
