Every now and again, a client comes along who is abnormally wealthy and who wants to spend some money buying sex. Rinse them of all they’ve got or play at Pretty Woman for a while.
Author Archives: mxjackparker
Hook-Up Hooker Loop
It’s easy for sex workers to get stuck in a mental loop with hook-ups, viewing them as if they’re clients and acting the same as they would for paid sex which only reinforces these learned behaviours.
Sex Work and Social Work
There are lots of jobs which involve somewhat intimate contact between clients and workers, populated by poor and marginalized workers who are mostly women. Any line you try to draw for why prostitution should be treated differently to other jobs will fail.
Weird Things Clients Have Said to Me
Subscriber-only: Once you’ve been selling sex for a while, you amass a lot of strange stories. Depending on how precarious of a situation you’re in, they might skew towards weird and horrifying or weird and funny.
Any Man is a Client
While there is much discussion about the objectifying ways many men view women, often blamed on them watching or meeting with sex workers, there is far less about the way selling sex can change how sex workers view men (who are the bulk of our clientele).
SW History: 1800s France
This article provides a breakdown of some of the ideas around prostitution in the early to mid 1800s in Paris, as well as tables of statistics translated into English giving insight into the level of literacy of prostitutes in Paris and the ages they were enlisted… as well as letters from real sex workers who were asking the police for the permission to become brothel managers!
No Data on Prostitution? Just Make It Up!
The way people make up data about sex work is not new. There are people who want to exaggerate the number of sex workers whilst treating us as a scourge, to shock people with the scale of the supposed problem, while others want to present the need for sex workers’ rights as a pressing concern due to a large number of individuals being impacted.
Zine: What Terms Exist for Sex Workers?
Paid subscriber only: A zine about what terms exist for sex workers, the context those labels are used in, and the situations in which certain words for sex workers are ideal or not.
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.
