Here’s a selection of posts, across a range of topics, all freely accessible!
Sex Deception Guidance: The Impact on Trans and Intersex Sex Workers
To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent.
Hooker Mentality
Tired of reading leftist theory that degrades sex workers, misunderstands the nature of our work, or ignores us altogether? Or maybe you’d like to hear what sex workers’ experiences reveal about capitalism and gender and policing? Hooker Mentality covers all the ways that selling sex can give hookers an insight into the systems which control…
Stop Saying “The World’s Oldest Profession”
I am tired of hearing this racist phrase repeated by people who should know better. This phrase has a deeply racist origin and sex workers have no need to be legitimized through appeals to the age of the profession.
Financial Dependency in Dating: What if We Stopped Fucking?
The line between financial dependency while dating and sex work is blurred from the moment you ask the question: what if I stopped having sex with my partner?
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Proximity to Police: Sex Work, Classism and Cops
The legal system does not cease to be whorephobic to sex workers when we aren’t facing prostitution-related charges.
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Homes for Hookers: London Renters’ Crisis
A monthly payslip feels like a golden ticket when you’re used to struggling to pass the referencing process for a rental agreement. If you can find a job that will give one to you consistently, you have a token that will grant you access to housing and credit. Earning that exact same amount of money…
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Kickstarter’s New “Mature Content” Guidelines
Kickstarter now joins an ever-increasing list of platforms leaving adult content creators behind. Here’s how that will impact sex workers who used the platform.
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Feminized Fucks and Fatherhood
Whether it’s transactional fucks or experiencing childbirth, my desires are the same; that no-one be seen as more or less of a woman for them.
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“Feminist” Fetishization of Trans Men
I find this kind of supposedly feminist thirsting over trans men to be harder to combat than chasers’ usual fetishization. It disguises itself as a compliment about more than solely the attractiveness of our bodies, but as a comment on our goodness as people.
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Why So Many Sex Work Exit Strategies Fail: Lessons from The Scarlett Letters
Employment at the bookshop came with the same promises for me that any other funded pathway to leave prostitution might; that the job would enable me to stop selling sex and serve as a jumping off point for future traditional work.
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Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
Pregnancy care varies in quality at the best of times, but when you’re trans and coping within a system that isn’t built for you it’s important to be proactive about self-advocacy.
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Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
In addition to those who begin sex work because of having children, plenty of sex workers have children once already engaging in it for the same reasons as everyone else; we want to start a family with a partner, we get pregnant accidentally, or we feel called to help raise the next generation with good…
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Swallowing Resentment
Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients’ wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to keep them sweet.
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Transactional Intercourse
Today is the launch day for a project I’ve been working on for a while – an anthology with trans and intersex sex workers! Transactional Intercourse will be an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers’ writing, serving as a snapshot of our experiences in our own words.
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How to Discuss Sex Work with Friends and Family
As with many taboo topics, it can be hard to decide how to handle the conversation around sex work when it comes up. Between bills restricting porn access and stories on the news about prostitution stings and brothel raids, discussions are happening more and more within families and friendship groups who would ordinarily avoid discussing…
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