Selling sex is highly stigmatized and there are many situations in which sex workers are much better off if certain people don’t know they sell sex. This is a guide which discusses the options sex workers have for hiding their work in various situations, both personal and professional.
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How To Get Rich Making Porn
Anyone can get rich making porn if they just follow this simple formula, without having a pre-existing following or having your family find out!
Does that kind of claim seem too good to be true? That’s because it is. Honest advice about selling porn should include an admission that most people make very little money doing it in the long-term.
Porn and Sex Addiction
The idea of porn addiction is commonly brought up by conservatives or sex worker exclusionary radical feminists as a way to demonize the viewing of pornography. Rhetoric around porn being dangerous and addictive has also infiltrated more liberal or left-wing groups. People can absolutely have compulsive behaviours applying to sex and porn, but the addiction model fails at understanding them.
A Therapist You Fuck
Using sex workers to address mental health issues places an unfair burden on an already struggling and marginalized population of people. Regardless of whether having sex can help lonely clients to address their intimacy issues, sex workers are not generally trained therapists and cannot be expected to provide that sort of care.
What is Survival Sex Work?
A phrase you will see used by some sex worker advocacy organisations is the term “survival sex work”. Typically, this refers to people selling sex in precarious circumstances to meet their basic survival needs on a direct basis. Whilst people who are using prostitution as their sole income are obviously paying for their needs withContinue reading “What is Survival Sex Work?”
How the Online Safety Bill Will Harm Sex Workers
As is typical with legislation that targets sex workers, the name of the Online Safety Bill is misleading and intends to make the average member of the public believe that its purpose is to protect people. This was also the case with FOSTA/SESTA in the US (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex TraffickingContinue reading “How the Online Safety Bill Will Harm Sex Workers”
Why You’re Failing on OnlyFans
Most people are! I realize it seems flippant to say it, but it’s the truth. Most people who make OnlyFans accounts or who make online porn in general will fail to make a significant amount of money. For the few people making significant money, that’s a result of already having a sizeable platform or ofContinue reading “Why You’re Failing on OnlyFans”
Why “Feminist” Anti-Trans Advocates Also Hate Sex Workers
The connection between certain anti-trans ideas and negative views of sex workers is not necessarily clear to people who don’t intimately understand the rhetoric used against each group. Why would having an issue with trans people make someone hate sex workers too? Why would being disgusted by prostitutes make someone hate trans people? For manyContinue reading “Why “Feminist” Anti-Trans Advocates Also Hate Sex Workers”
Transmasculine Guide to Sex Work
If you’re a trans man or transmasculine non-binary person and a sex worker (or want to be a sex worker) then most resources aren’t going to be built with you in mind. The few resources that make an effort to be inclusive will have you as an afterthought and only minimal amounts of advice willContinue reading “Transmasculine Guide to Sex Work”
Hating Men and Hating Sex Buyers
I hear “I hate men” fairly frequently, within certain feminist communities. I once said it often. To be completely honest, I think what opened my eyes to how hating men is useless bigotry was actually selling sex.
Jack Talks About Sex Work 