Preserving sex worker history is a goal that is extremely important to me; all too often we are spoken over, our stories suppressed or lost to time. When I started reading “La Prostitution Contemporaine”, a book in which the author argues for the full decriminalization of prostitution, I became obsessed with it and decided it needed to be translated and preserved in English.
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What Can I Do to Support Sex Workers?
For those who are not sex workers, it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to material support. Educating yourself on the struggles sex workers face is admirable, but if you’re not using that knowledge to provide aid then there’s very little impact from it. So, here’s a resource you can use to get some ideas on how to provide help:
Viewing Porn as a Sex Worker Who Makes It
Having experience being in front of the camera when making porn, rather than experiencing it only from the other side of the screen as a consumer, often changes how you view it. Are sex workers buying porn?
Perpetual Teens: Sex Workers Lying About Their Ages
The teen category is a popular one in porn, and it’s mostly populated by people who are 20 and over. Pretty much anyone who could theoretically pass for 18 and 19, even if they’re really pushing it, will tack on that tag to their videos because it’ll get them some extra clicks.
Camgirlification
Every now and again, there will be some controversy or public obsession with a type of online content that is being used by sex workers to advertise; the kicker is that they often don’t realize it’s sex workers who are doing it and make an incomplete analysis because they’re missing that information. Particularly with onlineContinue reading “Camgirlification”
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.
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).
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.
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.
Jack Talks About Sex Work 