SW History: 1800s France

This article provides a breakdown of some of the ideas around prostitution in the early to mid 1800s in Paris, as well as tables of statistics translated into English giving insight into the level of literacy of prostitutes in Paris and the ages they were enlisted… as well as letters from real sex workers who were asking the police for the permission to become brothel managers!

Psychopathia Prostitualis

Every time I look into the history of understanding sexuality, I find sex workers there. Sex workers aren’t valued for the contributions we make or recognized as propping up these researchers work the way we do, to great personal detriment and without compensation, but we’re there.

We’ll Make a Video Game with Dragons… and Hookers!

I go through phases with what kind of media I like to consume the most, and video games are one thing I come back to a lot. I’ve been playing games and coming across sex workers in them since long before I became a sex worker myself. Some of the examples that might first come to mind would be games like GTA or The Witcher. For me, the first time I remember playing a game that had a brothel in it was with the Dragon Age franchise.

When a Police Officer Showed Up at the Brothel

This post discusses a personal story of being coerced into selling sex to a police officer, under threat of the brothel I was working in being raided in the future. The descriptions are non-graphic, and I mostly talk about my complicated feelings around how I feel like I’ve been lucky compared to others because my experience was not worse.

Short Story: A Safe Brothel Set-up

Summary: Harper starts working at a brothel, needing the extra funds, and finds the brothel owner showing her around to be very frustrating. The owner isn’t used to being the one who’s at risk, and doesn’t know what reaction might be in store from the sex workers he hires. (Warning: Mentions of sexual assault – though no-one is sexually assaulted in this story, descriptions of blood and gore.)