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Don’t Say “Sex Work”

When it comes to the topic of prostitution and censorship of discussion about it, terms like “sex work” are often banned whilst words like “prostitution” or “sex trafficking” are not.

Age Verification Bills and the Chilling Effect

There are many problems with age verification and I don’t blame people whose first thoughts are about how this is an unhelpful restriction that doesn’t help kids but does restrict access to porn for the adults who want to watch it.

Responsible Reporting on Sex Work

A lot of people are being undervalued for their contributions in journalism or other forms of written media. Journalists and other writers should have solidarity with the sex workers they interview and seek to make the process as easy and safe for them as possible, rather than being a part of the machine which exploits us.

Psychopathia Prostitualis

Every time I look into the history of understanding sexuality, I find sex workers there. Sex workers aren’t valued for the contributions we make or recognized as propping up these researchers work the way we do, to great personal detriment and without compensation, but we’re there.

We’ll Make a Video Game with Dragons… and Hookers!

I go through phases with what kind of media I like to consume the most, and video games are one thing I come back to a lot. I’ve been playing games and coming across sex workers in them since long before I became a sex worker myself. Some of the examples that might first come to mind would be games like GTA or The Witcher. For me, the first time I remember playing a game that had a brothel in it was with the Dragon Age franchise.

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.