This is a breakdown of the newest UK police guidance regarding sex work (due for review between April 2024 and August 2025), including criticisms from a sex worker perspective.
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Clients Cancelling
A cancellation from a sex worker is a minor inconvenience to a client. They can book another sex worker or forego seeing one without any significant consequences. If a client cancels on a sex worker, that cancellation may be the difference between being able to afford food or rent.
Hazbin Hotel: An Analysis on Sex Work Themes
As soon as Hazbin Hotel’s first season released on Amazon, I had multiple people asking for my opinion on the sex worker character within it and his story line. There’s more to it than you’d expect, from the sexualization of assault to the sincere discussion of sex workers’ trauma.
Love Is Blind (and Whorephobic)
Do I think the target audience for Love Is Blind will care about sex workers’ issues, even with the bigotry pointed out to them? No. My desire to point it out is more as a way to prompt people to consider how even innocuous trash television seeks to reinforce whorephobia.
Sex Work Slogans
If you pay any attention to sex workers’ rights advocacy, you’ll know that there are certain slogans which are used to draw attention to the movement and our demands. Here’s a short breakdown of some of the more popular ones.
Fiction About Sex Workers
A portion of the negative beliefs I had about sex workers, before I began selling sex myself, came from the media I consumed. There are lots of sex workers in fiction, but many of them fall intro tropes and are portrayed poorly.
How to Talk About Minors Selling Sex
Even referring to minors as being capable of “selling sex” is going to be controversial to a lot of people. A person selling sexual services and being raped or abused are not mutually exclusive – saying minors can sell sex does not minimize that their clients are raping them.
Post-Client High
As long as a client is not outright abusive or uniquely difficult, the moments after finishing a booking where I hold the money in my hands are an immense high for me. The novelty of earning a day’s wages at another job in the space of an hour never fully wears off.
My Friend is a Sex Worker and I Have Questions!
You’ve just found out that your friend or acquaintance is a sex worker. Naturally, you have questions.
Let’s go through some of the topics you might be curious about and how to approach any questions you still have with your friend:
After Client Aftercare
Sometimes my need for aftercare has been due to a client harming me. Far more frequently, I need it to insulate myself from the stigma which makes me feel alone and ashamed and far more resentful, than I otherwise would be, of an experience which is usually more on the side of annoying than traumatic. Being around other sex workers frees me from those feelings.
Jack Talks About Sex Work 