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.
Category Archives: Stigma
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.
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.
Streets to Spreadsheets: Prostitution and Taxes
Workers with cash-in-hand jobs are often subject to stigma where it is suggested that they don’t pay their taxes like everyone else. When your earnings aren’t going through the bank, it’s much harder for anyone to prove how much you earned and to catch you out for not declaring the entirety of your income. In-personContinue reading “Streets to Spreadsheets: Prostitution and Taxes”
Woah, I’ve Never Met a Sex Worker Before!
Upon admitting that I’m a sex worker, I’ll get a plethora of different responses that range from supportive to deeply bigoted. Somewhere in the middle of the range of those reactions, towards the more supportive end, are people who seem fascinated by my admission that I sell sex and who have all sorts of invasiveContinue reading “Woah, I’ve Never Met a Sex Worker Before!”
A Guide to (Legally!) Lying About Selling Sex
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.
Pansexual Prostitute Panic
Any attraction to men is imagined to override other elements of a bisexual and/or pansexual person’s identity. For queer people selling sex, a skew in the ratio of the genders of their sex partners is likely to develop very quickly, because most sex buyers are men.
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.
Poor with Rich Clients: Survival Sex Work and Wealth Disparity
The juxtaposition between being hungry and unsure where you’ll sleep that night and spending an evening in a lavish hotel room with room service is an extreme one. Finding sugar daddies, when I first began selling sex, caused me to experience that first-hand…
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”
Jack Talks About Sex Work 