When it’s convenient for police officers to do so, sometimes they take a break from criminalizing street sex workers to engage in another kind of abuse against them. They are exploited as an unpaid labour force of informants on their clients.
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Sex Work Non-Fiction Reading Recommendations
This is a non-exhaustive list of reading recommendations on the topic of sex work, from books to zines to online articles, that I intend to regularly update.
Hooker Mentality
Tired of reading leftist theory that degrades sex workers, misunderstands the nature of our work, or ignores us altogether? Or maybe you’d like to hear what sex workers’ experiences reveal about capitalism and gender and policing? Hooker Mentality covers all the ways that selling sex can give hookers an insight into the systems which control us all.
Nordic Model Proposed in the UK: How This Would Harm Sex Workers
MPs in the UK want to amend the Police & Crime bill to criminalize paying for sex and get rid of escorting websites! This will harm sex workers.
Hotel Workers and Hooker Hospitality
Having worked in a hotel both as a hospitality worker and as a hooker, I feel as though I’m in a particularly good place to discuss interactions between the two.
Wealthy White Women and Sex Trafficking Anxiety
Irrational fears of being sex trafficked among financially stable white women are created by misogynistic and whorephobic myths around the circumstances in which most sex trafficking happens.
How could you call these wealthy white women whores, when they’re so terrified of the prospect they might be forced into the role of one?
Sex Work Themes in Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire (2022) is not a show that is explicitly about sex work, and yet selling and trading sex is a vital aspect of many characters and has a core importance to the story.
Why Not Date a Client?
The reason I wouldn’t even consider dating the vast majority of my clients isn’t based on their looks or social status or mannerisms. My clients aren’t all men who I would otherwise find ugly or off-putting. The issue is the dynamic that is created by paying me for sex.
Sex Deception Guidance: The Impact on Trans and Intersex Sex Workers
To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent.
Dear Home Secretary: A Plea for Sex Work Decriminalization
This is my letter to the UK Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, calling for the decriminalization of sex work.
Dear Home Secretary,
I’m writing this letter to urge you to oppose measures criminalizing sex work in the UK, and to instead support the full decriminalization of it.