history – Jack Talks About Sex Work

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.

Contemporary Prostitution Translation – 1884, Léo Taxil.

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.

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!