sex work

  • Charging For Emotional Labor Is An Inherently Feminist Act

    by Andre Shakti
    "These girls have to deal with men in their lives every day…they don’t listen to them, they don’t even ask them what they want. All we have to do is ask them what they want...."
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  • When Porn Complicates The Relationships Of Straight White Christian Hipsters, It’s Not Our Problem

    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "It will only be through deeper and broader education, and the empowerment and destigmatization of service workers (sex workers included) that justice and liberation will be possible."
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  • Phoenix Goddess Temple Proves Need For Sex Worker Solidarity

    WPh
    by Kitty Stryker
    "As long as the law can come for some of us, they can come for all of us."
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  • Sex Work is not "The World's Oldest Profession".

    by Bee D. Geiger
    "Prostitution was created and criminalized by men. Sex workers have gone into sex work and been punished for being sex workers largely because of men."
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  • (Ho)ld That Thot: This Black Babe Doesn't Want To Be "Saved"

     RV
    by Lyric Seal aka Neve Be
    "Interesting: it's degrading for a femme or a woman to be self-employed and making informed choices surrounding her sexual agency...but it is not degrading for us to adhere to your rules and roles in order to be a respectable wife."
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  • Sex Workers Share Stories Of Clients Using The "L" Word

    by Andre Shakti
    "No one ever asked me if I felt oppressed, under-appreciated, or taken advantage of when I was a barista. Yet when I speak on sex worker panels, I can almost guarantee that someone will make it their personal mission to do just that."
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  • Yes A Stripper: Sex Workers Need To Take Back Pole Dancing
    by Bella Vendetta
    "It's awesome and inspiring and empowering if you pay for the privilege of pole dancing. But if you make a living at it, it's disgusting and degrading."
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  • Whorephobia & Misogyny in Wrestling—Still Real To Me, Dammit

    by Scarlett Harris
    "Laurer’s high-profile blackballing from the industry shows the punishment and shame brought on women who are seen profiting from their sexuality."
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  • True HoMance: When Sex Workers Date Each Other
    by Andre Shakti
    "While SW/SW relationships are connective, therapeutic forces to be reckoned with, they’re just as undeserving of glamorization as the sex industry itself."
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  • A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She's Anti-Criminalization

     WPh SV GV
    by Kitty Stryker
    "I’d like to see more survivors using their voices and being given a platform. I’d like to see an end to the ridiculous argument that victims all want to see sex work criminalised, and an end to the unfounded idea that it would actually benefit us."
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  • I'm Poly & So Can You: Cuck My Life Into Pieces

     WPh
    by Andre Shakti
    Andre answers the questions of a spouse struggling with distrust for her sex worker metamour and a poly meetup organizer trying to understand cuckolding fetish.
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  • The Spirit of the Staircase: Emotional Labor and Whorephobia

     WPh
    by Just Elise
    "I'm just…" he stalled, looking down at his hands, "having a hard time dating someone who used to be a stripper."
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  • I Did Sex Work To Support Myself Through Law School
    by Tina Dolgin
    "Those like myself, who enter law school in the hopes of getting our hands on some of the tools of our oppressors in order to flip them on themselves, try to get in and get out without calling too much attention to ourselves."
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