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How Sex Workers Keep Working on Our Periods

Aside from catering to the occasional client with a menstruation fetish, sex workers who experience periods can have a tough time when we start bleeding.

Rate Shaming

The basic premise behind rate shaming sex workers over how much we charge is that our rates are viewed as correlated to our worth as individuals. Fundamentally, doing sex work is not something inherently degrading which must be balanced out by an empowering sum of money. It is a neutral act.

Sick of Ripper Tours – A Poem

A poem about Jack the Ripper tours in London and my hatred of them as someone who sells sex.

Nowhere to Hide: Facial Recognition and Sex Work

Any sex worker who advertises online or posts pornographic content has heard that the internet is forever and that people will eventually find out what they do for work. That used to mean that we had to be prepared for people to stumble across porn that featured us, or for friends or family to noticeContinue reading “Nowhere to Hide: Facial Recognition and Sex Work”

An Open Letter to Sugar Babies

To those engaging in transactional relationships with wealthier people, also known as sugar babies.

Let’s talk about why sugar babies are sex workers too, and why you need to accept that.

So, You Have Feelings for a Sex Worker?

Before you confess to your romantic interest in a sex worker, you should think about whether you could actually handle dating one of us. There are issues like jealousy, stigma, and even potential legal consequences to consider.

How to Build a Healthy Relationship with Porn

There is nothing wrong with watching people engage in sexual activity, whether that’s through your screen or in real life. What matters is that you’re considerate about the desires of all those involved, and that people whose job it is to create that entertainment are fairly compensated.

Studies on Violence Against Sex Workers

Sex workers experience violence at a high rate. Almost no-one expects me to provide sources to back this up, because it’s intuitive to them. From hearing about Samuel Little choosing sex workers to murder because we’re easy targets to dead hooker jokes finding their way into all sorts of cherished media franchises, everyone knows thatContinue reading “Studies on Violence Against Sex Workers”

Kinship Between Asexuals and Sex Workers

Asexual people who have sex with others for closeness, intimacy, and even physical pleasure in the absence of attraction, were my gateway to feeling an affinity as an allosexual sex worker who also has sex without attraction.

Stop Saying “The World’s Oldest Profession”

I am tired of hearing this racist phrase repeated by people who should know better. This phrase has a deeply racist origin and sex workers have no need to be legitimized through appeals to the age of the profession.