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”
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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.
Who Has Time For Sex Worker Rights Activism
When I sell sex less often, I have more time and energy to advocate for sex workers’ rights. This has always been true for me and it has always been a source of frustration and internal conflict.
Is It Okay To Say Whore?
Since so many people are called whores to insult them through comparison to sex workers, many people feel as though they can reclaim the word or that it’s been reduced to meaning anyone promiscuous. Let’s talk about the reclamation of whorephobic slurs.
False Friends
Finding friends who will accept you being a sex worker can be difficult. Sometimes we miss the red flags or ignore them, when someone comes along who doesn’t take issue with our work, because a lot of us are lonely. These false friends fall into certain archetypes.
Where Can I Talk About Sex Work Online?
Large swathes of the internet are hostile to even the mention of sex work. It’s easy to find out which sites disallow advertising of sex work, but it’s harder to work out whether a site will allow discussion sex work and how much it’ll be suppressed.
Decrim Means Decrim
Among the supposed allies of sex workers, who claim to support our struggle for workers’ rights, are people who still have an instinct to cling to some level of criminalization or regulation.
How to Write Sex Worker Characters
Let’s go through how to write about sex workers by asking some questions about the potential story and characters, whilst discussing how the law and stigma would impact them within the narrative.
Anti-Capitalists Selling Sex
For roughly as long as I have been selling sex, anti-capitalism has been central to my core values. There are many people who find my identity as an anti-capitalist to be in conflict with my identity as a sex worker, but I find them to be in perfect alignment.
Jack Talks About Sex Work 