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Streets to Spreadsheets: Prostitution and Taxes

Workers with cash-in-hand jobs are often subject to stigma where it is suggested that they don’t pay their taxes like everyone else. When your earnings aren’t going through the bank, it’s much harder for anyone to prove how much you earned and to catch you out for not declaring the entirety of your income. In-personContinue reading “Streets to Spreadsheets: Prostitution and Taxes”

The Ideal Nordic Model Poster Child

There are a number of groups who oppose the full decriminalization of prostitution and support the criminalization of clients. Sometimes this will be called the “Nordic model” because it’s the legal model for prostitution used in Sweden and Norway. Others will dishonestly call it the “Equality Model”. You may even see it framed as “decriminalizationContinue reading “The Ideal Nordic Model Poster Child”

Frequently Forgotten Top Surgery Tips and Mastectomy Myth-Busting

When planning for top surgery, it can be really daunting. Any kind of surgery is a scary prospect and no matter how many videos you watch or how many people you talk to, you’re never going to be able to perfectly prepare for everything that might happen.

Hooker Math Zine

In this zine we’ll go over how to calculate earnings, the ideal frequency of STD testing, discuss expenses in a brothel compared to independent work, plus go over some fun calculations of how many clients you need to see to afford certain luxuries!

When a Police Officer Showed Up at the Brothel

This post discusses a personal story of being coerced into selling sex to a police officer, under threat of the brothel I was working in being raided in the future. The descriptions are non-graphic, and I mostly talk about my complicated feelings around how I feel like I’ve been lucky compared to others because my experience was not worse.

Woah, I’ve Never Met a Sex Worker Before!

Upon admitting that I’m a sex worker, I’ll get a plethora of different responses that range from supportive to deeply bigoted. Somewhere in the middle of the range of those reactions, towards the more supportive end, are people who seem fascinated by my admission that I sell sex and who have all sorts of invasiveContinue reading “Woah, I’ve Never Met a Sex Worker Before!”

A Guide to (Legally!) Lying About Selling Sex

Selling sex is highly stigmatized and there are many situations in which sex workers are much better off if certain people don’t know they sell sex. This is a guide which discusses the options sex workers have for hiding their work in various situations, both personal and professional.

Pansexual Prostitute Panic

Any attraction to men is imagined to override other elements of a bisexual and/or pansexual person’s identity. For queer people selling sex, a skew in the ratio of the genders of their sex partners is likely to develop very quickly, because most sex buyers are men.

How To Get Rich Making Porn

Anyone can get rich making porn if they just follow this simple formula, without having a pre-existing following or having your family find out!

Does that kind of claim seem too good to be true? That’s because it is. Honest advice about selling porn should include an admission that most people make very little money doing it in the long-term.

Porn and Sex Addiction

The idea of porn addiction is commonly brought up by conservatives or sex worker exclusionary radical feminists as a way to demonize the viewing of pornography. Rhetoric around porn being dangerous and addictive has also infiltrated more liberal or left-wing groups. People can absolutely have compulsive behaviours applying to sex and porn, but the addiction model fails at understanding them.