Sean Zevran Responds To ‘Left Magazine’ Publisher: ‘Not Every Escort Is Some Uneducated Bottom’

I’m paraphrasing in the headline, but Sean Zevran has posted a response on his blog to that op-ed that’s been pissing off gay sex workers everywhere, from Left Magazine creative director and publisher David Helton.

Who is David Helton? Well, he’s the San Francisco-based publisher of a little gay rag (pictured at left next to Sean), and according to Facebook he also goes by DJ Hawthorne and he’s also a brand ambassador for Devotion Vodka, the latter probably doing more to pay the bills. But one thing he certainly is not is a whore! That’s according to this shitty little essay he penned this week, to which porn star and escort Max Cameron already angrily responded.

Here’s another photo below of Helton (center) not being a whore at the White Party this past spring.

Helton at center. Photo: Facebook
Helton at center. Photo: Facebook

Anyway, Sean Zevran delivers a measured and intelligent point-by-point response to Helton, beginning with a single point of agreement: That $1,500 scholarship Rentboy was offering shortly before they were shut down probably could have been bigger, especially considering their revenues. “On the other hand, Rentboy.com did more to provide a safer and simpler means for male escorts to conduct business than any other private company to date.”

He also calls out Helton for giving examples of escorts getting pissed on and bottoming, saying,

Before I go on, it’s worth pointing out that all save one of Helton’s many examples portray the escort as the receptive partner, painting the picture that most escorts are pathetically being sodomized in both ends out their desperate need for a quick buck. I suspect this is a deliberate tactic, given that bottom-shaming is very much a thing in the gay community, particularly in the United States. It serves to make the stereotypical hookers in Helton’s article appear even more desperate by endorsing another kind of stigma.

And, like Max Cameron, Sean would like Helton to know that he too is educated, having gotten “a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from a state university and did eight years in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.” He’s also now in an LSAT prep course that was paid for through sex work.

I also challenge David Helton: So you wanna be a writer, bud? Start by dropping these pathetic, childish op-eds and actually tackle some difficult topics. You’ve accomplished absolutely nothing by writing an article trashing a group of people who have, frankly, put up with enough.

It is pretty comical that this screed came not even from some high-horse conservative homo with an actual professional career, but from a house music DJ who reps a two-bit vodka brand and is the creative director for one of those free gay magazines you find on the floor of a nightclub. To paraphrase Jackie Brown, you haven’t exactly set the world on fire yourself, Helton.

As Sean Zevran adds, “Apparently, this career [of Helton’s] now includes writing malicious articles patronizing and dehumanizing the downtrodden under the pretense of wanting to help them. Oh, but if one could only be half so great as David Helton…”

Previously: MAX CAMERON, PORN STAR AND ESCORT, RESPONDS TO INCENDIARY ESSAY ABOUT ‘WHORES’ BY LEFT MAGAZINE PUBLISHER

7 thoughts on “Sean Zevran Responds To ‘Left Magazine’ Publisher: ‘Not Every Escort Is Some Uneducated Bottom’”

  1. Sean is da man!!!! Of course I’ve been whacking off to videos starring Sean for sometime now, but now I will be even more turned on by his mind. That dude’s got it all going on!

  2. The GDP of the United Kindon INCLUDES income from the ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE and PROSTITUTION.

    Now – Tell me how these two are illegal when our own government includes the income spent / earned in the countries GDP

    Tell me how illegal I was when i worked for 20 years as an escort and PAID TAX and how the tax man knew EXACTLY how I earned my money and after taxing me – this makes the tax man A PIMP – NOW THAT IS ILLEGAL IN LAW, yet is acceptable because it is the tax man.

    When a street walker gets busted and fined, where does s/he go to earn the money to pay the fine… YOU GUESSED IT – BACK ON THE STREETS… so the fine – is just another version of tax.

    THE BULLSHIT AROUND SEX WORKERS IS PATHETIC AND COMES FROM SMALL MINDED IGNORANT SCARED LITTLE PEOPLE. Many gay publications made their money from the masseurs and escorts who advertise and are charged a huge amount more for the same size advert than – say a bar or hotel, yert offer a patronising, rude and contemptiuous attitude while taking wods of money and being hypocrits towards members of their own community.

  3. He’s not practicing an illegal profession. Not everything that is illegal is made so without an agenda, bias or remains contemporaneous. Guess what, if you say “gesundheit!” you’re practicing an illegal act!

    1. He was most certainly practicing an illegal profession. Prostitution is illegal, rentboys and their clients knew that it was illegal when they did it. Maybe it shouldn’t be illegal but since it presently is, they were breaking the law. Also, I want you to be aware of the fact that your “agenda” argument is frighteningly similar to the argument being used by many of Kim Davis’s supporters.

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